SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux

• macemu

  3 321 7.1 C++

  Basilisk II and SheepShaver Macintosh emulators (by kanjitalk755)

• executor

  2 251 10.0 C

  old-school Macintosh Emulator

Rather a shame that Executor got lost in the shuffle:

https://github.com/ctm/executor

and didn't stick around until Rosetta and so forth went away and it became potentially more useful.

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• darling

  116 11,029 8.3 Objective-C

  Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux

  

Their GitHub is active, and they have a Discord. I don’t do Discord, but if you do, you could probably follow progress there.

As of 2020, graphical app support was very basic but somewhat functional: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/657

I agree that GUI apps are the real use case here. Honestly, reversing and recreating the MacOS APIs is such a mammoth effort though, I can understand why progress would be slow. Wine faced a similar struggle, but also had an urgent need driving it: we needed Win apps to work to make Linux viable for most people. That’s less the case for Mac apps, so Darling is by necessity more of a passion project.

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