My preferred emulators, all loaded through altstore for a jailed device

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/AltStore

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  • minivmac4ios

    Mini vMac for iOS

  • -minivmac4iOS, based in vmac: OG Macintosh, up to 7.5.5 IIRC (IPA)

  • macemu

    Experiments with BasiliskII on iOS and macOS (by zydeco)

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

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  • dospad

    iDOS - DOSBox port on iOS

  • -iDOS, based in DOSBox: DOS and Windows up to 3.11. Used to be in the app store, but no more. IPA in Github

  • UTM

    Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

  • -UTM (actually, UTM SE, which is the altjit version for jailed devices), based in Qemu: Lots of CPUs but most importantly x86 emulation, including support for Windows up to 10 (IPA, use UTM SE. use the AltStore Repo)

  • iAmiga

    iAmiga sources

  • -iUAE (Amiga), based in UAE: My current version is compiled from a forum thread but a couple of forks (mOoNsHaDoOo's and simontoens's) look's promising (no IPA, must be compiled from source)

  • scummvm

    ScummVM main repository

  • - ScummVM. Not really so much of an emulator than an engine to run graphic adventures like Sierra's, LucasArts and a whole lot more. (IPA)

  • iAmiga

    iAmiga - Amiga emulator for iOS (by mOoNsHaDoOo)

  • -iUAE (Amiga), based in UAE: My current version is compiled from a forum thread but a couple of forks (mOoNsHaDoOo's and simontoens's) look's promising (no IPA, must be compiled from source)

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  • iAmiga

    iAmiga sources (by simontoens)

  • -iUAE (Amiga), based in UAE: My current version is compiled from a forum thread but a couple of forks (mOoNsHaDoOo's and simontoens's) look's promising (no IPA, must be compiled from source)

  • QEMU

    Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

  • -UTM (actually, UTM SE, which is the altjit version for jailed devices), based in Qemu: Lots of CPUs but most importantly x86 emulation, including support for Windows up to 10 (IPA, use UTM SE. use the AltStore Repo)

  • flycast

    Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator

  • - Flycast, based on reicast: Dreamcast (IPA is among the artifacts of each successful compilation as flycast-apple-ios).

  • em-dosbox

    An Emscripten port of DOSBox

  • -iDOS, based in DOSBox: DOS and Windows up to 3.11. Used to be in the app store, but no more. IPA in Github

  • Ready

    A Home Computer Emulator for iPad. (by T-Pau)

  • -Ready (formerly named "C64", Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, Sinclair ZX Spectrum), based in fuse, vice (IPA)

  • reicast-emulator

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

  • - Flycast, based on reicast: Dreamcast (IPA is among the artifacts of each successful compilation as flycast-apple-ios).

  • Play-

    Play! - PlayStation2 Emulator

  • - Play!: Playstation 2 (IPA)

  • MAME4iOS

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

  • - Mame4iOS: From MAME and until recently only supported up to 0.1xx (Pretty much all non-3D arcades), has recently been updated and the MAME version supported is one decade more recent so tread with care as changes may result in instability for a few months (IPA). There's a Mame for 0.1xxx romset and one for 0.23x so choose the proper one.

  • dolphin

    Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

  • - DolphinIOS, based on Dophin: GameCube and Wii. Requires AltJit from AltStore to run fullspeed in jailed devices (IPA, use the AltStore Repo)

  • SaaSHub

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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