A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

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Stars! is a 1995 4X game (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) for 16-bit Windows 3. 1 that I first played ~28 years ago. Windows x64 cannot run 16-bit applications, and playing requires paired with Wine. I’m distributing 32-bit builds (but requires (almost) everywhere except 16-bit Windows. 32-bit Windows could run the original 16-bit game, but the VM-encapsulated version is better behaved.

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