# willfaust/Madeira

> A research project for running x86-64 Windows games on a non-jailbroken iPhone by combining Wine, FEX-Emu (x86-64 → ARM64 translation) and DXMT (D3D11 → Metal) in a single Mach process.

- Magnitude: 4.0 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 721 total · +50 stars today, ≈ 90 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: C · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-03-07 · Last push: 2026-09-25
- GitHub: https://github.com/willfaust/Madeira · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/willfaust/Madeira

## Useful for

- Build and sideload the app on an iPhone with an Apple ID to run Windows games
- Test a specific game's compatibility through Wine + FEX-Emu + DXMT
- Study the ARM64EC and x86-64 translation implementation on iOS

## Why it’s here

- 50 stars so far today, about 90 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 17 per day, so that's 5.2× as much.
- Over the last two days the pace is 9.5× that of the previous week and a half.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending today: #9, +171 stars.
- About 12 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 153
- Issues and pull requests: 37
- Watchers: 11
- Average over the last week: 51 per day
- Usual pace: 17 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 19

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-29 … 2026-09-27: 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 3, 1, 19, 48, 21, 44, 83, 30, 32, 32, 14, 13, 13, 7, 6, 10, 13, 9, 11, 13, 70, 152, 50

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #9, +171 stars

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-27 14:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.