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|?|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|Basilisk II|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/cebix/macemu 1.0 R5]|?|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|vMac|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.vmac.org/ 0.19]|?|{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|?|{{~}} ||{{TBD}}|-|[[Clock Signal]]|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD✓}}|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{clkver}}]|{{✓}}|{{✓✗}} ||{{TBD}}
;Clock Signal
:A multi-system emulator with full-hardware [[Emulation Accuracy#Cycle accuracy|cycle-accurate]] emulation of the Macintosh Plus.
x86 and ARM hurdles
{{Infobox console
|title = Apple Macintosh
|logo = Macintosh.jpeg|developer = [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer, Inc.]]
|type = [[:Category:Computers|Computers]]
|release = 1984
|discontinued =
|predecessor = [[Apple II LineLisa emulators|Apple ][Lisa]], [[Apple Lisa emulatorsII Line|LisaApple ][]]
|successor =
|emulated = {{✓}}
|-
!colspan="6"|PC / x86
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|Basilisk II
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/kanjitalk755/macemu/ 1.0 R5]
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|Mini vMac
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/download.html 36.04]
|-
|[[MAME]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
|{{✓}}||{{✓}} ||{{TBD}}|-|[[Clock Signal]]|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{clkVer}}]|{{✓}} ||{{✗✓}} ||{{TBD}}
|-
|<abbr title="PC Emulator">PCE</abbr>
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[http://www.hampa.ch/pce/download.html 0.2.2]
|-
|[[Ardi Executor]]
|align=left|{{Icon|DOS|Linux|NextStep|Windows}}
|[https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/executor 2.1.17]
|{{✓}}||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-|vMac|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}|[http://www.vmac.org/ 0.19]|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-!colspan="6"|Consoles|-|Mini vMac|align=left|{{Icon|Pyra}}|[https://pyra-handheld.com/repo/apps/33 36.04]|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-!colspan="6"|Consoles|-|Basilisk II|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}|[https://github.com/PSP-Archive/Basilisk-II-PSP/releases git]|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
|}
;[[MAME]]
:To say it's a multi-system emulator would be an understatement. It covers a wide range of electronic history, with its namesake being arcade machines. Just typing in "Macintosh" will list basically everything Mac-related like the original Macintosh 128K (unfortunately labelled as Not Working) and the Macintosh II (which is OK). [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/0f028a8bd2afcb32ccdab0291eb3a798a98a1afc/src/mame/machine/mac.cpp#L14 See the full list here.] ;Clock Signal:A multi-system emulator with full-hardware [[Emulation Accuracy#Cycle accuracy|cycle-accurate]] emulation of the Macintosh Plus.
;PCE <small>(PC Emulator)</small>
:A multi-system emulator. Computers it targets include the Macintosh Plus, SE and Classic. Stables used to release every two years but stopped in 2013. A snapshot exists for December 2018 however, which suggests that the project isn't completely dead.
;[[Ardi Executor]]
|SheepShaver
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|[https://github.com/cebixkanjitalk755/macemu / 2.4]|{{✓}}|{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|PearPC|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/sebastianbiallas/pearpc 0.6.0]|{{✓}}|{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
|-
|Classic Environment
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}} (PPC)
|Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"
|?{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}|-|Rosetta|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}|Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" (Intel)|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|[[QEMU]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
|4.0.0{{QEMUVer}} |{{✓}}||{{✓}} ||{{TBD}}
|-
|RosettaPearPC|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|Mac OS X 10[https://github.com/sebastianbiallas/pearpc 0.6 "Snow Leopard" (Intel).0]|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-|?[[DingusPPC]]|align=left|{{✗Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}|[https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc git]|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
|-
|}
;Rosetta
:Apple's official PowerPC emulator for x86-based Macs included in Tiger (10.4.4). Though it wasn't included in Snow Leopard, it was still possible to transfer it from a previous Leopard install. It was removed entirely in OS X Lion. Rosetta uses QuickTransit technology licensed from Transitive Corporation, and works transparently from the end-user, leading Apple to market it as "the most amazing software you'll never see." as it, unlike most emulators, does not have a user interface. Rosetta works best on software that isn't system-intensive, such as office applications; games and other software applications which rely on kexts, libraries or certain instructions may not work properly if at all. A compatibility list is available [https://web.archive.org/web/20060208152806/http://guides.macrumors.com/Rosetta_incompatibilities here].
;DingusPPC
:Experimental emulator early in development.
===x86===
:''Note: installing macOS on non-Apple x86 hardware, the practice known as [[wikipedia:Hackintosh|Hackintosh]], is a more common and feasible way of running macOS programs on a regular PC rather than trying to emulate or virtualize actual Mac hardware.''
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|Rosetta 2
|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
|macOS 11 “Big Sur” (Apple Silicon) (Upcoming)|?{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
|-
|}
===ARM===
{{no current emulators|SYSTEM VARIANT}}
==Emulation issues==
===PowerPC===Currently, no 3rd-party Macintosh emulators support hardware graphics acceleration, due to [https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8396 certain CPU instructions left unimplemented in their upstream PPC softcores]. This means no GLIDE, RAVE, nor or OpenGL. Fortunately, though as was generally the case in every platform of the period significant visual and feature differences exist between the two, the majority of Mac-exclusive software using these APIs also included software fallback renderers. ===x86===Despite an x86-based Mac is very similar to a general non-Apple PC in hardware architecture (which makes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software) Boot Camp] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh Hackintosh] possible), it still contains Apple proprietary hardware such as closed-source EFI BootROM, System Management Controller (SMC) and later T1/T2 security chip that either requires bypassing or emulation in order to run macOS. macOS also contains countermeasures that prevent it from being run on a non-Apple PC such as the infamous [https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/dont-steal-mac-os-x-kext.51175/ Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext]. Another big hurdle is that macOS only contains drivers for hardware components used in actual Mac computers, which means a large portion of PC users who use different hardware combinations than actual Mac computers need to bypass, patch, or port drivers for their hardware in order to boot macOS and promote it to a usable state, and might still with crippled functionalities due to no or imperfect solutions to drive some of the hardware. ===ARM===Hurdles in emulating ARM-based Mac are basically the same as emulating iOS devices: Apple's proprietary M1/M2 SoC which has little to no documentation, and hardened security measures inherited from iOS devices.
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