5 лучших эмуляторов iOS под Windows

Сегодня я расскажу, как использовать приложения для iOS на своем PC с помощью эмуляторов iPhone . В этой статье я перечислю все эмуляторы iOS , которые в настоящее время доступны для платформы Windows.

Что такое эмулятор iOS?

Эмулятор — это программное обеспечение, с помощью которого можно запускать приложения, предназначенные для других операционных систем: Android , iOS и т. д.

Эмулятор iPhone позволяет запускать iOS-приложения на PC без необходимости использования iPhone . Подобное программное обеспечение полезно для разработчиков, особенно при создании приложений под другие платформы. Если бы при тестировании приложение каждый раз нужно было переносить на iPhone , это занимало бы очень много времени. В таких случаях эмуляторы становятся практически незаменимыми.

Существует много эмуляторов iOS для Windows , но в этой статье я перечислю лучшие из них. Как вы, знаете, iOS — это любимая операционная система разработчиков, и большинство приложений сначала запускаются только для iOS . С другой стороны, iPhone очень дорогой, и многие считают, что он не стоит этих денег. Так что большинство покупает бюджетные смартфоны.

Для Windows существуют десятки эмуляторов iOS на ПК , и для большинства из нас трудно определить лучший из них. Но не волнуйтесь, поскольку наша команда до написания этой статьи тщательно изучила эмуляторы iOS , вы сможете легко выбрать лучшие из приведенного ниже списка.

Лучшие эмуляторы iOS для Windows 7/8/8.1/10

1) iPadian iPhone Emulator

Один из лучших эмуляторов iPhone для Windows. IPadian Emulator доступен в двух версиях. Одна бесплатная, другая стоит 10 долларов. С ее помощью можно запускать любые приложения для iOS, например WhatsApp, Snapchat и т. д., которые нельзя запустить в бесплатном iPad-эмуляторе. Я настоятельно рекомендую купить платную версию. Я лично попробовал iPadian для Windows 8:

Как установить iPad-эмулятор на компьютере с Windows:

Для запуска iPadian iPhone Emulator на компьютере выполните следующие действия.

• СкачайтеiPadian Emulator ;
• Дважды кликните по файлу установщика, который вы загрузили в предыдущем шаге;

• Следуйте указаниям мастера установки эмулятора iOS для Windows ;
• После успешной установки iPadian Emulator на компьютер можно выполнять дальнейшие шаги для запуска iOS-приложений .

Как запускать iOS-приложения на ОС Windows 7/8/8.1 с помощью iPadian Emulator:

• Дважды кликните по иконке iPadian ;
• Теперь в интерфейсе эмулятора нажмите на иконку магазина приложений;
• Загрузите свои любимые приложения и наслаждайтесь эмулятором iOS на PC .

2) MobiOne Studio (проект официально прекращен)

Обновление — этот проект iPhone эмулятора официально прекращен, но его все равно можно установить на свой компьютер, загрузив EXE-файл со сторонних сайтов.

3) Air iPhone Emulator

Еще один отличный эмулятор iOS , который доступен для Windows 7/8/8.1 и т. д. Используя его, можно без проблем запускать iOS -приложения на своем компьютере. Если вы i OS-разработчик , можно использовать этот эмулятор, чтобы бесплатно тестировать приложения. Если вам не понравился iPadian Emulator , особенно его бесплатная версия, тогда можно попробовать данную альтернативу:

4) Xamarin Testflight

Что касается поддержки разработчиков, я должен сказать, что в этом плане Xamarin Testflight — лучший эмулятор iOS для Windows 7 . Хотя это платное программное обеспечение, но оно стоит своих денег:

5. Appetize.Io

Это облачный эмулятор, и вы не сможете загрузить его на свой компьютер. Ранее существовал эмулятор iPhone , известный как App.io , но он больше не доступен. Поэтому, если вы ищете альтернативу App.io , то вам стоит попробовать Appetize.io :

Чтобы использовать его, загрузите файл .ipa и введите свой адрес электронной почты. На указанный ящик вы получите ссылку. Нажмите на нее, чтобы протестировать .ipa-файл в онлайн-эмуляторе Appetize.io .

Заключение

В этой статье мы рассмотрели лучшие эмуляторы iOS на компьютер. Я также рассказал о функциях каждого из перечисленных выше эмуляторов.

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How to play Windows games on your Mac without Windows

Source: iMore

The Mac has plenty of games, but it’ll always get the short end of the stick compared to Windows. If you want to play the latest games on your Mac, you have no choice but to install Windows . or do you?

There are a few ways you can play Windows games on your Mac without having to dedicate a partition to Boot Camp or giving away vast amounts of hard drive space to a virtual machine app like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Here are a few other options for playing Windows games on your Mac without the hassle or expense of having to install Windows.

GeForce Now

Source: Nvidia

PC gaming on Mac? Yes you can, thanks to Nvidia’s GeForce Now. The service allows users to play PC games from Steam or Battle.net on macOS devices. Better still, the graphic power of these games resides on Nvidia’s servers. The biggest drawback: the service remains in beta, and there’s been no announcement when the first full release is coming or what a monthly subscription will cost.

For now, at least, the service is free to try and enjoy. All supported GeForce NOW titles work on Macs, and yes, there are plenty of them already available!

The Wine Project

Source: Wine Project

The Mac isn’t the only computer whose users have wanted to run software designed for Windows. More than 20 years ago, a project was started to enable Windows software to work on POSIX-compliant operating systems like Linux. It’s called The Wine Project, and the effort continues to this day. OS X is POSIX-compliant, too (it’s Unix underneath all of Apple’s gleam, after all), so Wine will run on the Mac also.

Wine is a recursive acronym that stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It’s been around the Unix world for a very long time, and because OS X is a Unix-based operating system, it works on the Mac too.

As the name suggests, Wine isn’t an emulator. The easiest way to think about it is as a compatibility layer that translates Windows Application Programming Interface (API) calls into something that the Mac can understand. So when a game says «draw a square on the screen,» the Mac does what it’s told.

You can use straight-up Wine if you’re technically minded. It isn’t for the faint of heart, although there are instructions online, and some kind souls have set up tutorials, which you can find using Google. Wine doesn’t work with all games, so your best bet is for you to start searching for which games you’d like to play and whether anyone has instructions to get it working on the Mac using Wine.

Note: At the time of this writing, The Wine Project does not support macOS 10.15 Catalina.

CrossOver Mac

CodeWeavers took some of the sting out of Wine by making a Wine-derived app called CrossOver Mac. CrossOver Mac is Wine with specialized Mac support. Like Wine, it’s a Windows compatibility layer for the Mac that enables some games to run.

CodeWeavers has modified the source code to Wine, made some improvements to configuration to make it easier, and provided support for their product, so you shouldn’t be out in the cold if you have trouble getting things to run.

My experience with CrossOver — like Wine — is somewhat hit or miss. Its list of actual supported games is pretty small. Many other unsupported games do, in fact work — the CrossOver community has many notes about what to do or how to get them to work, which are referenced by the installation program. Still, if you’re more comfortable with an app that’s supported by a company, CrossOver may be worth a try. What’s more, a free trial is available for download, so you won’t be on the hook to pay anything to give it a shot.

Boxer

If you’re an old-school gamer and have a hankering to play DOS-based PC games on your Mac, you may have good luck with Boxer. Boxer is a straight-up emulator designed especially for the Mac, which makes it possible to run DOS games without having to do any configuring, installing extra software, or messing around in the Mac Terminal app.

With Boxer, you can drag and drop CD-ROMs (or disk images) from the DOS games you’d like to play. It also wraps them into self-contained «game boxes» to make them easy to play in the future and gives you a clean interface to find the games you have installed.

Boxer is built using DOSBox, a DOS emulation project that gets a lot of use over at GOG.com, a commercial game download service that houses hundreds of older PC games that work with the Mac. So if you’ve ever downloaded a GOG.com game that works using DOSBox, you’ll have a basic idea of what to expect.

Some final thoughts

In the end, programs like the ones listed above aren’t the most reliable way to play Windows games on your Mac, but they do give you an option.

Of course, another option is to run Windows on your Mac, via BootCamp or a virtual machine, which takes a little know-how and a lot of memory space on your Mac’s hard drive.

How do you play your Windows games on Mac?

Let us know in the comment below!

Updated October 2019: Updated with the best options.

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Until recently, playing games on the Mac was limited to educational titles and the occasional port of a six-year old PC title. But ever since Apple switched to Intel processors back in 2006, the gaming abilities of the Mac have been increasing exponentially. In this guide we’ll look at five ways you can play a wide variety of games on your Mac.

Apple and Gaming

There’s a certain video game franchise that almost everyone has heard of — Halo. But did you know Halo first debuted at MacWorld and was originally developed for the Mac?

Bungie debuted a pre-release version of Halo at MacWorld back in 1999 (complete with introduction by Steve Jobs) that ran on the Mac. Unfortunately for Apple, Bungie was bought by Microsoft soon after and Halo became the flagship game and franchise for their Xbox console.

Since then, Apple has found it somewhat difficult to tempt gaming publishers (and by extension, gamers themselves) over to the Mac platform. With the sheer popularity (and performance) of the Mac, over the last few years, the tide is turning.

Before Intel

PC gaming has always been the mainstay of the serious gamer. PC gaming is somewhat of a misnomer and it has actually referred to Windows gaming. Since Windows has been (and still is) the largest PC operating system, it’s little wonder that game developers focus on it. Unfortunately, because Apple Macs ran on PowerPC architecture with a completely different operating system, many games simply never made it to the Mac. Mac gaming publishers such as Aspyr attempted to fill in the gap by creating Mac-compatible conversions (called “ports”). Whilst this meant a number of games did make it to the Mac, they were hardly ever the latest titles and often required extremely powerful Macs to run the games at a playable rate.

Apple has found it somewhat difficult to tempt gaming publishers (and by extension, gamers themselves) over to the Mac platform

All this changed in 2006 when Apple switched to Intel processors. This removed a huge hurdle for developers, the only real hurdle that remains is the different operating system. Not only did Apple switch to Intel, features such as Boot Camp (allowing you to run Windows natively on the Mac) and virtualisation software (such as Parallels and VMWare Fusion) meant that you could now run pretty much any Windows gaming title you wanted to. You no longer had to wait for a Mac-compatible version. This means gaming on the Mac has never been more popular.

There are still factors that limit gaming on the Mac. For example, the graphics cards Macs ship with are (compared to PC gaming) average at best. In addition, the operating system is still something many developers and publishers are new to and so games aren’t running as efficiently as they can, hence the reason many older games need today’s powerful Macs. Although the Mac is still lagging behind consoles and Windows gaming (by quite a margin), the gap is constantly closing — especially when huge gaming services such as Steam making gaming on the Mac even more accessible.

Gaming on Your Mac

We’re going to look at five ways you can install and/or play games on your Mac.

The Mac App Store

The simplest of all the methods we’re looking at in this guide. There’s a wide range of games on the Mac App Store and some of them are titles you will have heard of before. If the iOS App Store has taught us anything, it’s that games have to be fun above all else.

Installing a Game from the Mac App Store

If you’ve used the Mac App Store at any point then you’ll know how easy it all is. There’s no manual installation, simply select the title you want and then purchase it, which will start the download. Once purchased, you’re also allowed to install it on any other personal Mac on which you use your Apple ID for Mac App Store purchases.

Whilst the Mac App Store is probably the easiest choice for potential Mac gamers, it isn’t without it’s drawbacks.

Tip: Many of the Mac App Store major titles are going to be at least 4GB (Assassin’s Creed II is around 8GB) so be aware it might take some time to download.

Lack of Recent and Major Titles

Although there are some major titles, you won’t find many recent ones. Assassin’s Creed 2 was released at the end of 2009 — almost four years ago. There are a number of developers and publishers who are making attempts at releasing games on the Mac alongside a PC version, they’re mainly doing this through services such as Steam. You’ll find Call of Duty: Black Ops available on the Mac App Store, but you won’t find the recently launched sequel.

Performance can be Lacklustre

Even though games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops are available and have been around for a few years on the PC and gaming consoles, you’ll still need a powerful Mac to run it. Whenever you’re wanting to buy a game from the Mac App Store, check the specs in the description first and make sure your Mac is capable of running it.

Remember, there are still factors that limit gaming on the Mac such their graphics cards which, compared to gaming PCs, are average at best.

You might find some blockbuster titles may require some serious hardware but don’t let this stop you from enjoying games on your Mac. You’ll find a lot of fun games from indie developers as well as games that are designed for the Mac, rather than being converted to it.

Games such as Angry Birds and Braid run brilliantly on the Mac. Their requirements won’t be as much as bigger titles but their gameplay makes them just as good (if not better) and they’ll run on a wider range of Macs.

Steam

We’ve covered Steam before on Mactuts+. It’s a gaming service run by Valve, the developers behind the hugely popular and award-winning Half Life and Portal gaming franchises. In 2010, Valve released Steam for Mac which opened the doors to Mac users enabling access their huge library of games. Although you still need to find Mac compatible games, Steam has a dedicated Mac section and if you’ve been gaming with Steam before and owned a title that is now Mac compatible, you don’t have to buy it again.

Moreover, Valve has been porting their own games to the Mac and even gave away Portal for a limited time when the store opened.

Steam operates outside of the Mac App Store. This means that there may be certain restrictions Apple has in place for games on the Mac App Store that Steam does not, allowing game developers and publishers more freedom to develop Mac ports.

Steam also has a number of popular features that make it the almost de-facto gaming store in Windows and makes it a better option than the Mac App Store…

• Cross licensing: If you own a Windows game and a Mac version is available, you get it free
• Hugely popular sales where games can usually be found for less than $10
• Open to any gaming developer
• Multiplayer capability for many games that support it
• Game demos

Since Steam provides many games for a variety of platforms, you don’t have to buy games again if you change. So if you switch from PC to Mac and install Steam, you may find many of your games are Mac-compatible and can be downloaded and installed for free! Just look for the platform badge that denotes what operating system you can use.

Valve is making a big push away from Windows with the launch of Steam for Linux so expect even more Mac support in the coming future.

Downsides

The only real downside to Steam at the moment is one that is shared with the Mac App Store — there’s just not as much choice as there is for Windows gamers. Steam has, however, a huge range of titles and as Valve pushes towards gaming on alternative platforms, there’ll be more and more games coming.

Installing Steam

Steam is an app you that can be downloaded from the Steam website. As well as managing your games, it is also the way to browse the gaming catalogue for games you’d like to purchase, just like the Mac App Store. You can also sign in and browse the Steam store via the website so you can find and buy games on the go, all of which will be scheduled to download the next time you launch Steam.

GOG is another gaming service that has a great back catalogue in older games. It’s not as well known as Steam but it has an increasing library of Mac games that you can buy. Similar to Steam, if the game is available for Windows and OS X, you can buy once and run on either operating system.

Unlike the Mac App Store or Steam, you download the installers for games directly from their website, so it’s a little more traditional.

Downsides

There isn’t a big library of games (though of the ones they have, they are very well priced). In addition, You will need to check back with the website should any updates be released.

For the casual gamer or for someone who enjoys nostalgia, GOG is a growing name that is worth checking out.

Boot Camp

Many Mac users who play games regularly will no doubt tell you that if you want to play games on the Mac, Boot Camp is the way to go. Depending on how much time you want to spend playing games on the Mac, they’re probably right.

Boot Camp is a free utility that allows you to install Windows side-by-side with OS X. Although this means you have to restart the Mac if you want to switch from one operating system to the other, it lets you run Windows natively. There’s no virtualisation software, no emulation. Whilst your Mac is running Windows it’s no different than any other PC (apart from looking a lot better). Your Windows games will have direct access to the hardware such as graphics card which means it is the best way to run high-performance games.

Why is this important? The whole gaming ecosystem for PCs resides within Windows and since games have been written primarily for Windows, for years, you’ll find a wider range of games that run better than their Mac-based equivalent. This means you can run Steam for Windows, EA’s competing Origin service or even PC DVDs available in video game stores.

Installing Boot Camp

Boot Camp can be installed via the Boot Camp Assistant, located in your Mac’s /Applications/Utilities folder.

When you run the assistant, you’re given the option of printing the setup instructions. I’d highly recommend doing this just in case things go wrong and you need to fix a problem.

Boot Camp will even create a bootable USB stick with your Windows 7 installation should you be using a Mac that doesn’t contain an optical drive, along with any additional drivers it might need.

Once you’ve completed the Boot Camp Assistant, your Mac will partition your drive (which can take some time) and then will restart to allow you to begin the Windows installation.

There are some caveats for Boot Camp though…

Windows License Needed

You need to purchase a copy of Windows. Boot Camp is just the utility to let you install Windows, it doesn’t include a license. For that, you need to buy one separately which is an additional cost.

Hard Disk Space

Installing Windows requires partitioning your hard drive with a fixed amount of space. Too small a space and you won’t be able to store a lot of games on it. Boot Camp can’t be used to set up Windows on an external drive however you can then install games to an external drive — just make sure to plan accordingly.

If you’re on a Mac with a solid-state drive (SSD) then make sure you have plenty of space free. SSDs are a lot smaller than traditional drives by comparison so if you were using a MacBook Pro with 256GB SSD and used the average 60GB installation, you’re going to find 60GB disappears immediately, make sure you’ve got plenty of space to keep you going in the future.

Virtualisation

For occasional use or if restarting your Mac is too much of a chore, you have the option to use something like Parallels or VMWare Fusion.

Virtualisation is the method of running two or more operating systems concurrently. You can be using OS X but also have Windows 7 installed in Parallels and running at the same time. This gives you all the benefits of Boot Camp but with greater control of hard disk space and not needing to restart your Mac. However, it still has some drawbacks.

Most Virtualisation Software isn’t (all) Free

Parallels and VMWare Fusion, the two most popular virtualisation software packages, aren’t free. Parallels is $79.99 and VMWare Fusion is $49.99. There’s a free alternative called VirtualBox which is an open-source alternative that you might be able to use though it does lack some features that paid-for versions have, such as advanced 3D acceleration.

Windows License Needed

Just like the Boot Camp installation, you need to purchase a copy of Windows. Again, Parallels or VMWare Fusion only provide the utility to run Windows, not the operating system itself.

Disk Space is Still an Issue

Though you have greater control over disk space (and can even store virtual machines on an external drive), they’ll still take up a lot of space — so plan accordingly. If you’re wanting to store them on an external drive, try to use the fastest method available to you (such as USB 3.0 over USB 2.0).

Performance is Reduced

Whilst virtualisation software works extremely well when it comes to the processors in our Macs, the same cannot be said for the graphics cards. They aren’t designed for virtualisation so you’ll find the graphics performance won’t be as good as running Windows via Boot Camp. Companies such as NVIDIA are working towards new graphics cards that take advantage of virtualisation and software, such as Parallels and VMWare Fusion, has had huge developments in allowing some more advanced graphics features. If you’re planning to play games frequently using a Windows environment then Boot Camp will be the better choice.

Conclusion and Recommendations

There’s a number of ways to play games on your Mac. Due to the Mac’s infancy when it comes to serious gaming, you’ll need to be prepared to spend some time looking into the best option for you.

For me, Boot Camp and Steam seem to be the best fit.

So what should you use? Well, that honestly depends on what you plan to play, how much you plan to play and what Mac you’ve got. But overall, I would actually recommend two options — Boot Camp and Steam.

Why? Because Steam supports cross-licensing, any game you buy that’s Windows and Mac compatible (for example, Portal) can be played in both Boot Camp and OS X via Steam — you pay for the game so if it’s available for PC and Mac then you get the best of both worlds. Moreover, if you change Mac or decide to get a PC for gaming, you still have all your games and don’t need to buy them again.

I would stay in the Windows environment when playing games (since my saved games and gaming content will be there) but if you ever decide to remove Steam or Boot Camp, at least you still have some games that are Mac compatible.

Do you play games on your Mac? If so, what’s the best way you’ve found to play?