A new data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/iphone/utm-se-emulator-release-for-apple-ios-unleashes-i486-or-powerpc-fun-on-your-iphone-ipad-or-vision-pro” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/iphone/utm-se-emulator-release-for-apple-ios-unleashes-i486-or-powerpc-fun-on-your-iphone-ipad-or-vision-pro”>emulator makes running classic Apple Macintosh 68K software a breeze on a cheap, portable, IoT development kit. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Developer amcchord has ported the popular Basilisk II Mac emulator to the ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 ($60). The device name gives away that this is a small (5-inch) tablet that relies on an ESP32-P4 SoC for horsepower. We’ve seen 68K Mac emulation on microcontrollers before, but as Hackaday data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://hackaday.com/2026/01/11/a-much-faster-mac-on-a-microcontroller/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://hackaday.com/2026/01/11/a-much-faster-mac-on-a-microcontroller/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>points out, this represents a major step forward in performance on one of these tiny SoCs. In…
