

If you think back to when Apple first announced it was beginning the transition away from Intel, the Apple Development Platform was unique. Instead, you just need to create an Apple Developer Account, then sideload the necessary apps before loading the appropriate ROMs. This is in large part due to the continued development of Delta, which doesn’t even require you to jailbreak your device.

Technically, it’s been possible to emulate many of your favorite classic games on the iPhone and iPad for years.

But something that has started appearing more and more now that Apple’s platform of M1-powered Macs has been available for an extended length of time is emulation gaming. There are workarounds with the likes of cloud gaming through Xbox Game Pass or NVIDIA GeForce Now, but native gaming is still pretty limited. We’ve covered it here at AppleToolBox quite a bit, but gaming on M1 Macs, and the macOS platform on the whole, just doesn’t match up to what’s possible with Windows.
