AppleALC VS VirtualSMC

Compare AppleALC vs VirtualSMC and see what are their differences.

AppleALC

Native macOS HD audio for not officially supported codecs (by acidanthera)

VirtualSMC

SMC emulator layer (by acidanthera)
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AppleALC VirtualSMC
97 13
3,362 1,634
0.7% 0.6%
7.7 4.5
9 days ago 10 months ago
C++ C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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AppleALC

Posts with mentions or reviews of AppleALC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-01.

VirtualSMC

Posts with mentions or reviews of VirtualSMC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AppleALC and VirtualSMC you can also consider the following projects:

VerbStub - Fork of KNNSpeed's VerbStub

GenSMBIOS - Py script that uses acidanthera's macserial to generate SMBIOS and optionally saves them to a plist.

OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide

Opencore-Vanilla-Desktop-Guide - Host for files for the OpenCore Vanilla Desktop Guide

IntelMausi - Intel Ethernet LAN driver for macOS

Legacy-Kexts - Repo for misc legacy kexts

RTL8111_driver_for_OS_X - OS X open source driver for the Realtek RTL8111/8168 family

AppleALC_Instructions - Complete instructions for AppleALC.kext

VoodooPS2

OcBinaryData

SSDTTime - SSDT/DSDT hotpatch attempts.

WhateverGreen - Various patches necessary for certain ATI/AMD/Intel/Nvidia GPUs