Developer successfully emulates first version of iPhone OS on computer with QEMU

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Post by bookofjoe » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 2:51 PM UTC

Developer successfully emulates first version of iPhone OS on computer with QEMU
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Re: Developer successfully emulates first version of iPhone OS on computer with QEMU

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Post by britneybitch » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

Primary source: https://devos50.github.io/blog/2022/ipod-touch-qemu/

Yesterday's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095830

Re: Developer successfully emulates first version of iPhone OS on computer with QEMU

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Post by bm-rf » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 4:42 PM UTC

Could this be used on something like a pinephone to get iPhone OS running on modern hardware?

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Post by wolfskaempf » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

bm-rf wrote: post #3

Could this be used on something like a pinephone to get iPhone OS running on modern hardware?

While there are no technical reasons it couldn’t be done, the performance in this specific case would be abysmal. As an otherwise happy PinePhone owner the performance is sadly lacking even in native applications.

Maybe the PinePhone Pro could handle running it somewhat smoothly.

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Post by mysterydip » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

As time marches on and new versions of iOS become incompatible with older apps and games, I am glad there are people doing things like this which allow preservation of that side of computing history.

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Post by frou_dh » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

bm-rf wrote: post #3

Could this be used on something like a pinephone to get iPhone OS running on modern hardware?

That would be a funny departure from the typical Emulator + ROMs use-case that is retro gaming.

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Post by ronsor » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

bm-rf wrote: post #3

Could this be used on something like a pinephone to get iPhone OS running on modern hardware?

I feel like Apple would become very irritated if someone ported iOS to the Pinephone (perhaps using a thin hypervisor layer).

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Post by joeman1000 » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 7:56 PM UTC

Can we get Cydia on there?

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Post by P5fRxh5kUvp2th » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 2:54 AM UTC

mysterydip wrote: post #5

As time marches on and new versions of iOS become incompatible with older apps and games, I am glad there are people doing things like this which allow preservation of that side of computing history.

When I first got my iphone I purchased a game called Orbital, this was around the time the ipad 3 came out with its new "retina" screen.

My buying habits very quickly changed once I realized that mobile "games" meant forcing things to take so many real-time hours that you had to spend money to make it reasonable.

So I don't purchase many apps anyways, but the thing that got me is that fast forward some years and I realized one day that the app store no longer believes I own the game, despite the fact that you can still download and purchase it TODAY.

My solution to this problem is that I don't purchase apps and I very rarely install them. On this phone I have bejeweled and wordscapes and duo for 2FA to my work VPN.