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‎UTM SE: Retro PC emulator

‎UTM SE is a PC emulator that allows you to run classic software and old-school games. * Supports both VGA mode for graphics and terminal mode for text-only operating systems * Emulates x86, PPC, and RISC-V architectures * Run pre-built machines or create your own configuration from scratch *...

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It's amazing that Apple are finally allowing stuff like this in. Its progress.

I wonder what games it can play?

 

[Ribi]

Are you a PC or Mac?

 

[Dacvak]

I know what I'm doing today!

 

[crazyriddler]

It doesn't use jit because apple doesn't allow it, so it's probably an interpreter emulator. So it will be slow as hell, probably limited to mid 90's games at best.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Awesome. Maybe the mac boys will finally be able to enjoy Magic Carpet!

 

[reinking]

probably limited to mid 90's games at best.

Expecting modern gaming/software on this would be .

 

[coffinbirth]

Expecting modern gaming/software on this would be .

Not if you're used to doing it on Android...

 

[Dacvak]

No JIT definitely sucks. I wish Apple weren't such wieners about that.

 

[reinking]

Not if you're used to doing it on Android...

Sure, you can get some newer-ish games running on Winlator. Pretty cool.

 

[coffinbirth]

Sure, you can get some newer-ish games running on Winlator. Pretty cool.

It's much bigger than that, and growing every day. The community is going ham on this. If you, or anyone else here is genuinely interested in this, give this a watch. It's pretty informative and eye opening to the possibilities.



With some tinkering (a given here) you can get tons of modern, albeit less demanding, games running. Indies and such, mostly. I have been in on this since early on and have been amazed how quickly this is all going down. We went from Half-Life 2 to GTA V in a matter of months. I just got RPCS3 running yesterday. Still pretty rough, and more or less just as a proof of concept, but it's pretty wild nonetheless.

If you take a look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows running on ARM, we are right around the corner from a pretty wide gamut of options for doing PC stuff on Android.

iOS is legitimately crippled in this entire conversation due to their entitlement restrictions. Without jits or other similar methods, it's DOA for modern software.

 

[reinking]

It's much bigger than that, and growing every day. The community is going ham on this. If you, or anyone else here is genuinely interested in this, give this a watch. It's pretty informative and eye opening to the possibilities.



With some tinkering (a given here) you can get tons of modern, albeit less demanding, games running. Indies and such, mostly. I have been in on this since early on and have been amazed how quickly this is all going down. We went from Half-Life 2 to GTA V in a matter of months. I just got RPCS3 running yesterday. Still pretty rough, and more or less just as a proof of concept, but it's pretty wild nonetheless.

If you take a look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows running on ARM, we are right around the corner from a pretty wide gamut of options for doing PC stuff on Android.

iOS is legitimately crippled in this entire conversation due to their entitlement restrictions. Without jits or other similar methods, it's DOA for modern software.

 

[StereoVsn]

It's much bigger than that, and growing every day. The community is going ham on this. If you, or anyone else here is genuinely interested in this, give this a watch. It's pretty informative and eye opening to the possibilities.



With some tinkering (a given here) you can get tons of modern, albeit less demanding, games running. Indies and such, mostly. I have been in on this since early on and have been amazed how quickly this is all going down. We went from Half-Life 2 to GTA V in a matter of months. I just got RPCS3 running yesterday. Still pretty rough, and more or less just as a proof of concept, but it's pretty wild nonetheless.

If you take a look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows running on ARM, we are right around the corner from a pretty wide gamut of options for doing PC stuff on Android.

iOS is legitimately crippled in this entire conversation due to their entitlement restrictions. Without jits or other similar methods, it's DOA for modern software.

It would be good to have JIT available. Apple could even allow it through unlocking dev mode Android style. But it's not going to happen unless EU forces them or something similar.

 

[Trilobit]

It's amazing that Apple are finally allowing stuff like this in. Its progress.

I wonder what games it can play?

It's EU going nuclear on them. I'm really happy that they were forced to put USB-C on their iPads. Simplifies my life somewhat.

 

[ReBurn]

I've used UTM on Mac since Apple silicon released. It's a pretty solid virtualization app based on QEMU. It's pretty cool that it can run on iOS now.

 

[ReBurn]

It's EU going nuclear on them. I'm really happy that they were forced to put USB-C on their iPads. Simplifies my life somewhat.

They started transitioning iPads to USB-C starting with the 2018 iPad Pro, well before the EU implemented their rule to standardize on USB-C. By the time the rule went into effect there was only one iPad model still using lightning, the 2021 9th-gen iPad, and that was discontinued earlier this year.

 

[Trilobit]

They started transitioning iPads to USB-C starting with the 2018 iPad Pro, well before the EU implemented their rule to standardize on USB-C. By the time the rule went into effect there was only one iPad model still using lightning, the 2021 9th-gen iPad, and that was discontinued earlier this year.

Oh, okay, you're right. It was the iPhones that were affected by the EU legislation.

At its iPhone 15 event, the company announced all of its next-generation smartphones will launch with USB-C charging, and so will the latest iteration of its AirPods Pro. Although Apple has previously switched its iPads and MacBooks to USB-C charging, it has been resistant to making the change on the iPhone until now.

The switch would come less than a year after the European Union voted to approve legislation to require smartphones, tablets, digital cameras, portable speakers and other small devices to support USB-C charging by 2024. The first-of-its-kind law aims to pare down the number of chargers and cables consumers must contend with when they purchase a new device, and to allow users to mix and match devices and chargers even if they were produced by different manufacturers.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/13/tech/iphone-15-usb-c-charging/index.html