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sam henri gold

Figured you'd all enjoy this fun lil bit of trivia. In 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced the iPod touch, there was a dramatic reveal in the keynote half way through that it had wi-fi and Safari. He went back to the demo and made a previously-hidden Safari icon pop onto the home screen (youtu.be/t_cNLpUXPdQ?t=2464). I thought this was just for the keynote, but it's a real mode you can force enable. I managed to do it on this emulated iPod touch:

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sam henri gold

Surprisingly easy to enable it, too. Just setting a key (SBEnableAppReveal) to true in Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist

I followed this fantastic work to get the emulator working devos50.github.io/blog/2022/ip

Alireza

@samhenrigold i was trying to get the emulator running but I keep getting these errors, any idea on how to fix it?

sam henri gold

@alixrezax yes, you gotta install OpenSSL through homebrew. Then I ran this (slightly modified) config command:

../configure --enable-sdl --disable-cocoa --target-list=arm-softmmu --disable-capstone --disable-pie --disable-slirp --extra-cflags=-I/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/include --extra-ldflags='-L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl@3/lib -lcrypto'

Alireza

@samhenrigold awesome, the modified config command was the key, although now i’m getting a different set of errors

Devin

@samhenrigold you’re right, I did enjoy this! Very cool.

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