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What kind of sucks about ARM Macs is that the pretty darn good x86 emulation seems to be hidden behind a proprietary wall, at least as far as I know. It sure w
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
What kind of sucks about ARM Macs is that the pretty darn good x86 emulation seems to be hidden behind a proprietary wall, at least as far as I know.
It sure would be nice if Apple provided a nice interface into their emulation for various projects like VirtualBox / Bochs / PCem / Qemu / DOSBOX / VMWare / Bochs / WINE to plug into.
It also kind of sucks that the entire overall body of PC / DOS / Windows / x86 emulation and virtualization is locked in all these silos despite the open source nature. The problem probably is that there are so many gotchas to document and cross-annotate across the projects that it basically is impossible without some dedicated team of very talented technical documenters.
- tambourine_man 3y agoYou can do it, Asahi Linux has access to a binary blob of Rosetta, or something like this, IIRC. The thing is I don’t really care. I was worried I’d need to run Windows or Linux X86. Turns out, I don’t. I only had to run Windows once for a few moments in the last 3 years since I had an Apple Silicon. Surprising, actually.