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Madeira is an open-source research project for running x86-64 Windows PC games on non-jailbroken iPhones. It combines ARM64EC Wine, FEX-Emu for x86-64-to-ARM64 translation, and DXMT for translating D3D11 to Metal, packaging them with wineserver as a thread inside a single Mach process on iOS. The project is sideloaded because it requires JIT with a debugger attached. It uses an Apple ID for signing; free-account provisioning profiles expire after seven days, requiring the app to be rebuilt and reinstalled, while the app container preserves prefixes and save data. The repository reports playable results for Thumper and ULTRAKILL, with other titles reaching gameplay with limitations, and describes the project as subject to rough edges, title-specific issues, and breaking changes. Madeira is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, with separate licensing terms for upstream components and project forks. It is built from several chains covering Wine, ARM64EC modules, FEX, DXMT, and the iOS application.

Try Omarchy is a macOS application that runs the upstream Omarchy desktop on Apple Silicon Macs without manual setup. It packages a project-built ARM64 Arch Linux image configured with Omarchy Quattro, a QEMU runtime using Apple's Hypervisor Framework, and a Swift/AppKit launcher. The guest image is built from pinned Arch Linux ARM packages and a pinned Omarchy source revision, with temporary fixes recorded by hash in the guest build specification. The application provides hardware-accelerated ARM64 virtualization and VirGL graphics, a resizable native window with automatic guest-resolution and HiDPI updates, Mac audio input and output selection, two-way clipboard sharing for text and PNG images, one optional shared Mac folder, and loopback-only TCP and UDP port forwarding from macOS into Omarchy. It is distributed as a signed and notarized DMG, and the first launch provisions the Linux account and guest environment. Video decoding is currently CPU-only, which can make high-resolution playback slow. Try Omarchy is not official or affiliated with Omarchy.

IPATool is a command-line tool for searching the App Store and downloading app packages (IPA files) for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and visionOS. It authenticates with an Apple ID, searches by term and platform, obtains app licenses, lists owned apps and available versions, retrieves version metadata, and downloads encrypted packages to a specified path. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, can be installed manually from GitHub releases or with Homebrew on macOS, and is compiled with the Go toolchain. IPATool is released under the MIT license.

An open-source native ARM64 port of Command & Conquer: Generals — Zero Hour for Apple Silicon Macs, iPhone, and iPad. It runs the real 2003 engine rather than an emulator, supporting campaign, skirmish, and Generals Challenge modes with RTS touch controls including tap selection, drag-box selection, long-press deselection, two-finger scrolling, and pinch zoom. The rendering path translates DirectX 8 through DXVK to Vulkan and then through MoltenVK to Metal. The port also reroutes the engine's writable configuration, cache, and save paths for iOS's code-signed app environment, adds an iOS DXVK cross-build and Vulkan-loader patch, and handles app-resume behavior when iOS removes the Metal drawable. It is based on EA's GPL v3 source release and community work including GeneralsX, with additional engine fixes and iOS/iPadOS support. The repository does not include or distribute game assets; users need their own copy of the game. The project is hosted on GitHub.

Highball is a native macOS app and CLI for running Windows games on Apple Silicon. It assembles Wine engines from pinned upstream builds, sets up bottles, and supports renderer overlays for WineD3D, DXMT, D3DMetal, and DXVK; it can install Steam, connect an Epic library through Legendary, and switch renderers per bottle or launch. Its compatibility database records verified runs, per-game renderer verdicts, community reports, machine-derived predictions, provenance, and kernel-anti-cheat blocklist entries. Declarative JSON recipes describe installer, registry, Winetricks, synchronization, renderer, version-pinning, and note steps applied to bottles, while the CLI can submit game results to the open database. Highball requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later. The app and CLI are licensed under GPL-3.0, while the recipes and compatibility database are CC0; D3DMetal is downloaded separately after acceptance of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit license. The project documents limitations with several Chromium-based launchers, Rockstar, Ubisoft Connect, GOG Galaxy, Battle.net, and the EA app.