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awesome-emulators		darling
	Project
2	Mentions	116
269	Stars	11,043
-	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	8.1
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	27 days ago
	Language	Objective-C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

awesome-emulators

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-emulators. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-21.

Emulators
4 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 21 Jun 2023

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but should still be helpful: https://github.com/alnacle/awesome-emulators
I am trying to make a list of good open-source programs for Linux defined by category for beginners. Can you help me expand it?
21 projects | /r/linux | 15 Jan 2022

Emulators https://github.com/alnacle/awesome-emulators

darling

Posts with mentions or reviews of darling. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

Zed is now open source
26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
MacOS like WINE
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 6 Dec 2023

There is actually a Wine-like transplier called Darling. The problem is that development is very slow because there is not as much need for MacOS programs on Linux, and there is a huge shortage of volunteers and manpower. And it has been rendered almost obsolete because Apple moved to ARM. Additionally 90% of Apple's API is closed source despite Apple claiming to champion open source.
RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2023

Unfortunately not. Darling [0] is still at the point that it can only run command line applications. Only the most basic GUI applications are supported. That's still a massive accomplishment that I don't want to diminish, but it's nowhere near the point that WINE was at even quite a long time ago.
[0] https://www.darlinghq.org/
Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 28 Nov 2023

7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023

xcodebuild CLI to compile iOS apps without a Mac. Seems possible in theory, although there's an ongoing issue some are seeing apparently: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/488
Whisky: Wine Supercharged with the Power of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023
Darling – macOS Emulation Layer for Linux
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023
Building a Custom Mach-O Memory Loader for macOS
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023

I wonder if there's opportunity for overlap with darling (https://www.darlinghq.org/) here, somewhat like using WINE on top of actual Windows.
Darling: The Wine of MacOS!
1 project | /r/foss | 5 Jun 2023

Hi guys, just wanted to make a quick shoutout to Darling since not a lot people seem to know about it, which is a compatibility layer like Wine for Linux, but it allows for MacOS applications instead of Windows apps to be able to run on Linux!

What are some alternatives?

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macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

rpcs3 - PS3 emulator/debugger

ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.

pcsx2 - PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator

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PeaZip - Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.

macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox on x86 CPUs for Windows, Linux, and macOS

oculus-rift-openhmd-steamvr

nonguix - Nonguix mirror – pull requests ignored, please use upstream for that