Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)

• ipasim

  3 776 2.5 C++

  iOS emulator for Windows

  

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

• WinObjC

  8 6,229 0.0 C

  Objective-C for Windows

  

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

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• darling

  116 11,015 8.3 Objective-C

  Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux

  

Darling [1] also wants to support iOS API translation

[1] https://www.darlinghq.org/

• aah

  1 167 10.0 Objective-C

  arm64 architecture handler (by zydeco)

https://github.com/zydeco/aah

I abandoned it when macs with Apple Silicon were announced, only some simple apps could run (GeekBench would crash through the Lua test iirc)

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