The projects main goal being an accurate emulation of the Macintosh Plus computer. Speaking about the possibility of a similar port to iOS, apart from macOS, the developer notes in a reply that “if amework is ever made available on iOS, porting it would be pretty painless I imagine.” The amework is the same framework that initially enabled a developer to successfully virtualize Windows ARM on Apple Silicon, as per The 8-Bit’s reporting. Mini vMac is an open source emulator of 68000 based Macintosh computers. The 8 Bit notes the likely reason that emulating Nintendo Switch games on M1 Macs is even possible and how an emulator could come to iOS and iPadOS.Īpparently, emulating a Switch CPU on Apple Silicon seems to be easy, given that the Switch itself runs on an ARM processor. The developer has also installed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on macOS and is sure to test more titles. As the game begins, though, you can start to see those technical limitations. VMac and Mini vMac emulate a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5. In the video posted on Twitter you can see Super Mario Odyssey running on macOS. VMac was an open source emulator for Mac OS on Windows, DOS, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Linux-Unix, and other platforms.Although vMac has been abandoned, Mini vMac, an improved spinoff of vMac, is currently developed. The implementation is not quite perfect yet due to the technical limitations of the MoltenVK runtime library, which “maps Vulkan to Apple’s Metal graphics framework.” Even with these limitations, the emulation looks very promising. Developer on Twitter has gotten Nintendo Switch games to run on Apple Silicon Macs.

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