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Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad

Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone & iPad — real engine (EA GPL v3 source, via GeneralsX), DXVK/MoltenVK renderer, RTS touch controls. No game assets included.

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What it is

Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone & iPad — real engine (EA GPL v3 source, via GeneralsX), DXVK/MoltenVK renderer, RTS touch controls. No game assets included.

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Observed mentions: 2026-07-04 19:41:10 UTC to 2026-07-05 04:55:31 UTC.

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Jul 4, 19:00	2026-07-04 19:00:00 UTC	2026-07-04 20:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
Jul 4, 20:00	2026-07-04 20:00:00 UTC	2026-07-04 21:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 4, 21:00	2026-07-04 21:00:00 UTC	2026-07-04 22:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jul 4, 22:00	2026-07-04 22:00:00 UTC	2026-07-04 23:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 4, 23:00	2026-07-04 23:00:00 UTC	2026-07-05 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jul 5, 00:00	2026-07-05 00:00:00 UTC	2026-07-05 01:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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Jul 5, 04:00	2026-07-05 04:00:00 UTC	2026-07-05 05:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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didibus·Jul 5, 2026

Diff of the changes Fable added to the parent fork (which does not appear to have used AI): https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/compare... for those curious.

In Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

didibus·Jul 5, 2026

It seems it didn't: > Built on EA's GPL v3 source release via fbraz3/GeneralsX (which did the heavy lifting of the macOS/Linux port — this fork adds the iOS/iPadOS port and a set of engine fixes) Fable added 19 commits on top of the parent fork, which did not use AI. You can see the diff of what Fable added here: https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/compare...

In Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

110bpm·Jul 4, 2026

The code appears to be based on other people's forks: > The naive plan (port EA's raw source) is a multi-month job. The actual job was "port the best community fork," which was a one-session job. https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/blob/ma...

In Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

bel8·Jul 4, 2026

Title is click bait. This started back in February and looking at commits, Fable did only a small part of the latest commits. 19 commits out of 2000: https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/commits... And maybe it wasn't even Fable, they might have downgraded to Opus. This is the kind of frequent misinformation that makes me skeptical of Anthropic LLM claims. Whenever I compare them to GPT 5.5 on my web dev workflows, they seem to trade blows, even Fable, which I started testing since it was re-enabled. Also I bet any decent LLM could have done such port. Think GLM 5.2 or similar which would probably work better because it doesn't constantly try to guess if I'm a terrorist trying to hack goverments or develop some biological weapon. People just don't have the resources to compare LLMs and imply whatever they used is the best

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thing ever and unlocked some new workflow. I have seen little improvement since Opus 4.6.

In Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

asronline·Jul 4, 2026Submission

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

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asronline·Jul 4, 2026

EA released the Generals source under GPL v3, the GeneralsX project got it running on macOS/Linux, and I've taken it the rest of the way: native iOS and iPadOS builds of Zero Hour, plus Apple Silicon macOS. What works (all verified on a real iPad and iPhone): Campaign, Skirmish, and Generals Challenge: full missions, objectives, cutscenes, saves All audio: music, unit voices, EVA announcements, Challenge taunts, briefing FMVs Touch controls built for RTS: tap select, drag a selection box, long-press deselect, two-finger camera pan, pinch zoom Self-contained install: game data ships inside the app bundle It's the real engine: unmodified game logic compiled for ARM64, rendering DirectX 8 → DXVK → Vulkan → MoltenVK → Metal. Not emulation, not streaming. No game assets are included or distributed. You need your own copy (Steam sells Zero Hour

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) and a script pulls the data from your own account. Code is GPL v3. Repo, with a full engineering log of every bug and fix (the black-minimap one is a 2003 texture-format fallback that ate the alpha channel; worth a read if you like archaeology): https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/blob/ma... Building: macOS is about four commands; iPhone/iPad needs Xcode and a free Apple developer account since you sideload your own build. Known issues (long-session memory on iPad, a rare backgrounding crash) are documented in the README. Credit: fbraz3/GeneralsX did the heavy macOS/Linux lifting, TheSuperHackers keep the community codebase alive, and EA did a genuinely good thing releasing the source. The engine fixes I found are heading upstream so every platform benefits. (And of course, not affiliated with or endorsed by EA, and sorry China had to deal with all of those particle cannons in that demo video)

In Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable