Run ANY OS on iPad or iPhone!

Quinn runs Windows, macOS, Android, and more on his iPad Pro. No remote desktop or other clickbait. This is REAL emulation on iPad Pro thanks to QEMU and UTM.

#SnazzyLabs #Emulation #iPadPro

[roembol]

‘That’s pretty slow, not the speed of a usable device’. Me: looks at my laptop I use everyday. Me: it’s sort of fine...

[drpogo]

When the covid quarantine started in my country, nostalgia took over me and I felt the need to play counter strike 1.6 online. So I made some video calls with my old school friends to invite them to play.

I installed on my macbook pro, a virtual pc with windows xp, also CS 1.6 and Hamachi (a LAN emulator on devices connected by WAN) and this way I could play with my friends via internet and remember old times of vices in the cybercafe.

I spent days testing multiple programs to create virtual machines, and many windows and CS installations that are stable. Parallels was the ultimate solution.

Your joy in the video testing old systems mounted on modern devices made me remember that happiness of playing again with my friends at a distance. Greetings from Argentina!

[gtaseed]

The weird thing happening in half life with the mouse is due to the lack of pointer capture/relative pointer movement in the ipados apis. See it as if the pointer is glued to the center of the screen by a soft glue, any movement in any direction will be captured, but when the movement stops, the pointer returns to the centre of the screen. If the game expects that "glue" to be there, but it isn't, it'll just rotate the camera forever in the direction the mouse pointer is located on the screen relative to the centre where it was supposed to return. Hope this makes sense.

[beauslim]

If memory is very tight, keep in mind that 32-bit applications and OSes use a *lot* less memory (both storage and RAM) than 64 bit. I bet this is half the reason you got XP running pretty well.
I'm actually impressed that x86 emulation runs that well. Always go native architecture if you can. Would love to see ARM Windows running with this.

[hainesk]

The mouse issues in Half Life are because the mouse appears to be using absolute mouse input vs relative mouse input. In other words, absolute gives exact coordinates of where the cursor is on the screen, vs relative (which is what you want for games) just gives the difference in the cursor position, i.e. +1 up, +1 right etc. There might be a way to correct that in UTM, but it's an issue in RDP as well.

[papershark]

These videos are a service.. It makes me realise that things I think would be fun to do.. are really only fun to watch someone else do.

[QrchackOfficial]

"Run any os on iPad or iPhone"

Estimated battery life left: 15 minutes

[kameld]

I like the Enthusiasm of this guy with Apple products and how he always find hidden cool tricks to do with them

[LightBlazeMC]

i love the way you could clearly see how much fun quinn was having when he started half-life

[aryanr]

“Run any os”
I’ll run iPad os on my iPad

[saumyatalwani]

Please do a follow up with the M1 iPads when you receive them!

[JacksMacintosh]

Brilliant. I love these sort of hyper-specific videos looking into a fun little corner of tech, and you deliver them excellently

[kfc-enjoyer-based]

Snazz: *Running Android 4.0 on an Ipad*
Apple: wait, that's illegal

[UFO_researcher]

The problem with the mouse is a current issue regarding touchscreen. When creating a first person 3D game, the cursor is warped to the center of the screen and the motion is based on the distance from the center each frame. However, a touchscreen cannot warp the mouse position, because the user presses the screen to activate it.

[MiniArts]

I can't tell which is more impressive

The fact he's running Windows on iPad OS, or the fact he's running XP with a 15 GB storage volume

[TTYLIG]

“I run a large business of over 500 employees”

“Also I’m retired”

[aa]

Fun fact: If you have iOS 14-15.1.1 on an M1 iPad, you can use Trollstore to run Windows 10 ARM as an actual virtual machine with good performance (Trollstore lets you get hypervisor access through arbitrary entitlements)

[pinkchckn]

"you certainly couldn't do audio or video production over remote desktop"
I worked in a design agency that had such awful computers that I used to do most work remotely in my computer at home

[thilotech]

20:57 Could've just clicked Continue again.

[anshulsharma]

You gotta redo this video with the 16gb m1 ipad pro this time. Please man.