WIP: Run Lotus 1-2-3 on macOS + Apple Silicon with lightweight emulation #142
Description
With a series of changes to Blink, I am now able to run the native Linux port of Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3 on macOS with Apple Silicon. The approach extends Blink to function as an i386 ELF loader and binary translator, dynamically mapping Linux system calls to their macOS counterparts at runtime.
As a result, the prebuilt 123elf binary runs directly under Blink on macOS arm64.
macos-lotus-123.mov
The provided setup.sh script bootstraps Lotus 1-2-3 on macOS arm64 via Blink. It performs the following steps:
- Downloads the prebuilt i386 binary from GitHub
- Builds Blink
- Populates the sysroot from Ubuntu i386
.debpackages - Validates the filesystem layout
- Generates
run-123.sh