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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.

HarkinianPad is a native iOS and iPadOS application that packages the Ship of Harkinian Ocarina of Time source port for iPhone and iPad. It uses Metal rendering, imports a user-provided supported Ocarina of Time ROM through the Files app, and provides a landscape touch controller alongside support for keyboards, pointing devices, and iOS game controllers. The repository contains the mobile integration and reproducible build scripts, but no game ROM or ROM-derived archive. Builds can target the iOS simulator or physical devices using Xcode, and the project is distributed as a developer preview or local build rather than through the App Store or TestFlight.

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.

Kakehashi is a userspace macOS ARM64-to-Linux aarch64 translation layer for running Darwin Mach-O command-line binaries on ARM64 Linux without a virtual machine, JIT compiler, or instruction emulator. It loads Mach-O files, maps a freestanding libSystem environment, and translates BSD system calls at the guest–host boundary while handling guest threads and faults. The CLI provides live execution through `kh run` on Linux aarch64, plus a dry-load mode available on other hosts. It requires a manually assembled macOS guest filesystem, called a bottle, at the fixed path `~/.local/share/kakehashi/bottle/`; the project documents copying core directories from macOS and installing Apple Xcode Command Line Tools into the bottle. The repository states that the project is no longer maintained.

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.