QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices

What’s sad about this is that without backups of the old App Store as it existed at that time, you can’t do much beyond playing with the calculator and notes apps.<p>Digital distribution and lock-in are a disaster for historical preservation.

If you&#x27;re curious about emulating even older apple devices (Clickwheel iPod), I worked on an emulator for a few months called `clicky`. Very nifty project, given the weird and undocumented architecture of those early iPods<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;daniel5151&#x2F;clicky">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;daniel5151&#x2F;clicky</a>

This is cool. For some reason Apple devices are particularly poorly represented in emulators when compared to other systems. The emulators do exist, and recently we&#x27;ve seen better options for the Macs from the 80s and 90s, but they are generally not as feature rich or well supported.

Hopefully merged into the mainstream one day.