Ask HN: What (non-AppStore) iPad apps are you using?
zydeco
minivmac4ios
C2017–2024
zydeco / minivmac4ios
minivmac4ios
Mini vMac for iOS
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601GitHub stars
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesRPrpastuszak·Jun 25, 2024Submission
I was going to say that I was looking for utilities or creative tools like minivmac4ios (https://github.com/zydeco/minivmac4ios) or iSH... But I also know so little about the subject that I'm just curious what you're using, so please post whatever you like!
I have two iPads - an old one I'm turning into a media centre and a newer m4 (my plan for it: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/03/13/1bit-woodblocks/)
1 points · Open discussionThese two projects:
https://github.com/zydeco/minivmac4ios
https://github.com/zydeco/macemu/tree/ios/BasiliskII/src/iOS
The first is more stable, and recently got the pointer support added, but doesn’t go up to MacOS 8 AFAIK. I copied a bit of the stuff from that to the MacEmu one to get the pointer working ok.
Thank you Zydeco!
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