Paint in your browser
Microsoft Paint from Windows 98: tool palette, colour box, zoom, text and the image menus, drawing into a real device-independent bitmap. Paint runs in Wine-Assembly, a Windows 98 emulator written in WebAssembly Text, so it starts in the browser with nothing to install.
About this program
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Executable | mspaint.exe |
| Format | 32-bit Windows (PE) |
| Libraries loaded beside it | none; everything else is the emulator's own Win32 layer |
| Data files mounted | 2 |
| Desktop group | Win98 Accessories |
How it runs here
The x86 code is interpreted by threaded code written in WebAssembly Text; windows, controls, menus and dialogs are the emulator's own Win32 layer, and every pixel is drawn by a software GDI in the same module. See how the program and its DLLs are loaded.
Something wrong? The emulator is open source; report it on GitHub with the app name and what you clicked.
Questions
How do I play Paint in my browser?
Open the Paint page and click Launch. The program's files are fetched from this site and run inside the tab as WebAssembly; nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded.
What are the controls for Paint?
The mouse draws with the selected tool; the palette at the bottom picks colours, the box on the left picks tools, and the menus hold image and zoom options.
Does Paint work on a phone?
It loads in mobile Safari and Chrome and the desktop scales to the screen, but Paint was made for a mouse and a keyboard, so it plays best on a desktop browser. Taps act as clicks.
Are my scores and settings saved?
Whatever Paint writes to the Windows registry or to its INI file is kept in this browser's local storage, so it is there next time on the same device and browser. Clearing site data removes it.
Does Paint have sound here?
Paint has no sound of its own; the original only beeps on an error, and that beep is played.
Is this the real Paint or a remake?
It is the original 32-bit Windows (PE) executable (mspaint.exe), run instruction by instruction by an x86 interpreter written in WebAssembly Text. The emulator provides the Windows API underneath it, not a rewrite of the program.
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