ipasim vs macemu

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ipasim		macemu
	Project
3	Mentions	2
779	Stars	98
0.6%	Growth	-
2.5	Activity	0.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
C++	Language	C++
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.

ipasim

Posts with mentions or reviews of ipasim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-22.

Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2022

I was working on emulating apps directly [1] by translating API calls from iOS to Windows APIs using WinObjC [2]. Unfortunately, WinObjC got abandoned and didn't even contain as many APIs as I thought, so the result cannot emulate complex apps. But it was fun.
[1] https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC
Is it possible to run IOS games on android? I want to play Oceanhorn 2, but its not available on android but iPhone.
1 project | /r/EmulationOnAndroid | 20 Sep 2021

Here, this is a theoretically dead project! https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim
GitHub renders Markdown in commit messages
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2021

At least code snippets in backticks. Not many people seem to use them but it can be seen for example in my repository: https://github.com/ipasimulator/ipasim

macemu

Posts with mentions or reviews of macemu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-14.

[question] what is best emulator to run macintosh classic (v. 7.x)
1 project | /r/jailbreak | 30 Jan 2022

There’s a port of basilisk ii for ios, but I don’t know where to download a prebuilt version.
My preferred emulators, all loaded through altstore for a jailed device
16 projects | /r/AltStore | 14 Aug 2021

-Basilisk II iOS, based in Basilisk: Macintosh up to 8 (no IPA, compile from source)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ipasim and macemu you can also consider the following projects:

yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator

dingusppc - An experimental emulator

Mapbox GL - Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

omapsapp - 🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

mac-minivnc - A VNC remote desktop server for vintage Macintosh computers, including the Mac Plus.

citra - A Nintendo 3DS Emulator

MAME4iOS - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, macOS (Catalyst)

react-native-mmkv-storage - An ultra fast (0.0002s read/write), small & encrypted mobile key-value storage framework for React Native written in C++ using JSI

reicast-emulator - Reicast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator [Moved to: https://github.com/skmp/reicast-emulator]

aah - arm64 architecture handler

iAmiga - iAmiga - Amiga emulator for iOS