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2023

iSH: The Linux shell for iOS (via) Installing this iOS app gives you a full Linux shell environment running on your phone, using a “usermode x86 emulator”. You can even install packages: “apk add python3” gave me a working Python 3.9 interpreter, installed from the apk.ish.app repository.

I didn’t think this kind of thing was allowed by the App Store, but that’s not been the case for a few years now: Section 4.5.2 of the App Store guidelines clarifies that “Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes.”

# 31st December 2023, 4:20 am / appstore, emulator, linux, python, ios

2008

JSSpeccy. A ZX Spectrum emulator written in Javascript.

# 29th October 2008, 5:25 pm / canvas, emulator, javascript, jsspeccy, matt-westcott, spectrum, zxspectrum