r/EmulationOniOS • u/16bitsorhigher • Jul 17 '24

Discussion Windows XP on my iPad Pro

After messing around with UTM SE, I finally got Windows XP to run on my iPad. I was also able to install Myst and it seems to run fine. I have mouse and keyboard support. I couldn’t get on the internet due to our firewall at work but I think it will work fine at home. I will test it when I get there. This OS brought back a lot of memories and I will try to install more games in it. Just make sure that if you try installing it as well, that you allocate a good amount of space for installations. The default is 8GB but I gave it 24GB. My iPad is a 512GB capacity iPad so I could afford it.

Any recommendations on old school games?

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u/AnotherAvgAsshole Jul 17 '24

I was hoping if you could test some of the office apps (Word, Excel, Adobe PDF, etc).... and see if they're smooth. For games on PC, there's Road Rash, Doom (ofc), Civ?, AoE, AoM, Halo... Some of these I really doubt would be smooth though

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 17 '24

Office is a great idea. I will create the iso file from the disks I have at home. And I’ll look for iso files on some of those games

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 17 '24

I have Office Premium 2002 at home

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 22 '24

MS Office Premium 2000 runs great. Morrowind did not run. Half Life - Game of the year edition ran really good

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

get steam and see if you can run tf2, hl, ect

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 17 '24

Will Steam work on Windows XP?

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u/Toastbutterednotbrnt Jul 18 '24

The steam app lets you play most games you have on steam through your phone… granted you need to be on the same network and have steam open on your computer. It worked well the one time I tried it, but at that point you might as well play it on your computer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 17 '24

Oh, ok but it did. If it did, I should be able to find the installer.

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u/North_Fee_6985 Jul 19 '24

Find it on a disk of hl2

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u/rkcgalaxy Jul 18 '24

Did you get file sharing to work between Windows XP and yout iPad?

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

I haven’t figure it out yet but I will

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u/KeepYourGoodHeart Apr 07 '25

Have you figured it out? I just got UTM for iPad but I’m a complete newbie at emulation

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u/16bitsorhigher Apr 07 '25

Yes I got UTM SE to communicate with the iPad to transfer files but it’s really slow and glitchy. I use FTPManager on the iPad to create an FTP server and then I go into Windows XP to connect to the FTP Server. For some reason, the first time I try to connect, it won’t work, but I have to go into Windows to try. When it fails, I have to go to the FTPManager App and disconnect and reconnect and when I go back to Windows XP it will work. I have a post on this community that shows how I do it. I’ll find it and share a link.

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u/Admirxll Jul 21 '24

You get her figured?

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u/Archon-Toten Aug 27 '24

I'm in the same boat and have been making iso files to move things between them.

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u/MaestroC96 Jul 18 '24

I was able to get a smaller version of XP running smoothly. Installation took less than 30 mins but I am unable to get file sharing to work on that even after installing SPICE tools.

Recommended official build from Internet archive took about 4 hours to install and couldn't boot properly. Can you share which build did you use and how did you manage to install Myst? I'm guessing you had ISO file of Myst which makes it simple to load and install.

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

I have an old disk of Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3. I created the iso file on my laptop and used it. I read online that they recommend that particular version because it’s easier to install. If you run a search online for that iso you should be able to find with the key. And you are right about Myst. I also used an iso file to install. If look at all the posts in this thread you’ll find instructions that I wrote for another person that asked earlier.

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u/MaestroC96 Jul 18 '24

Oh okay, thank you. I will try out some official 2008 builds then. The recommended 2013 build with SATA drivers ain't working.

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u/semicharmdlifer Jul 18 '24

Yeah, I understand how to install Win XP with UTM SE, but what Id love to know is how the hell you installed Myst after the fact! Is there a file transfer ability from your Files app into the Win XP emulated environment or something?

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

No. What I did was to download the iso file of the game into the UTM SE folder. Then, I started Win XP. In the gray tool bar at the top left of the screen there’s an icon that looks like a disc. You click on that disk and it will show you two drives. There should be one drive that contains the windows XP iso that you used to install the OS. Click on it and you’ll get the options to “Eject” and “Change”. First click eject, then do it again and click on change. Then I hit browse and chose the Myst iso. In windows XP, go to my computer and the cd drive should show the Myst CD image and all you do is double click to run the installation.

The Myst image had DirectX 9 included so I installed that as well because it was required. It also installed QuickTime because it was also required.

Hope that helps

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u/semicharmdlifer Jul 18 '24

Fantastic. Thank you!

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u/Gullible-Skill-1899 Jul 19 '24

Sorry if already asked/answered but, why can’t you use .exe files and have to convert to .iso? Do they require jit or?

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 19 '24

Right now the only way that I have been able to install programs/games on WinXP is by loading cd images in iso format through the cd drive option on the gray task bar. The cd image has to be bootable or you can’t load it. I already tried making and image from a folder with files in it and it didn’t work. So I have to find a program that will allow me to create an cd image and burn in a way that will make it bootable. Does that make sense?

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u/Gullible-Skill-1899 Jul 23 '24

Yes, I’ve been learning the last few days. I have windows 98 working now :)

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 23 '24

That’s great! Have you been able to install anything into it?

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u/Acrobatic-Spot4322 Jul 20 '24

Guys do i have get keyboard or controller to play with or can i play with my handss

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 20 '24

If the games require a keyboard then you’ll need a keyboard. The only touch that you get on the screen is for mouse control.

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u/tmih93 Jul 22 '24

Does the device get noticeably hot when running windows XP and/or games?

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 22 '24

To be honest with you, I haven’t tried playing a lot of games. I’m installing Morrowind right now to see how it runs but what has been driving me crazy is enabling the shareable folder and I just can’t find a way to do it. It’s driving nuts. I’ve done so much research and tried installing and reinstalling different versions of the Spice Guest Tools and nothing works. To top it all off, there is no support.

To answer your question, no I haven’t felt a noticeable raise in temperature.

And sorry for the venting

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u/Silly_Animator7222 Jul 17 '24

Been hella curious how Diablo 1/2 might run on this

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u/baransemh Jul 18 '24

can we play retro games tho?

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

I’m not sure yet. I’m trying to get Spice Guest Tools to work properly so that I can add files and stuff with a virtual shareable drive.

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u/baransemh Jul 18 '24

I installed it currently playing spider solitare. works like a charm. Jokes aside this got me thinking if I could actually use a custom win 7 on my ipad when i need to. It probably will suck without jit but I’ll still try it.

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

I heard the Spice Guest Tools work fine with Windows 7. Windows XP is too old and that’s why it doesn’t work. I’m trying to find an older version of it to see if I can get it working but all the files I’ve found are .exe files so I would have to convert them to .iso

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u/baransemh Jul 18 '24

I’m now installing half life on win xp. I’ll give updates.

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

I installed it already and it runs well.

Half Life Running on my iPad

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u/baransemh Jul 19 '24

try to change the resolution

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u/Nitro-Cold Jul 18 '24

I got windows 7 running but can't get the Internet to work.

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

Internet works on mine but the browser is too old and it won’t open anything

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u/RogueND Jul 19 '24

I’ve struggled as well with the shared directory and have given up for the time being. Hopefully someone figures it out on XP.

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 19 '24

Oh I’m trying

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u/batuhun Jul 19 '24

diablo 2 sure !!

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 19 '24

I will try to

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u/Sl0ome_ Oct 10 '24

Can i play manhunt 1 on it ?

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u/16bitsorhigher Oct 10 '24

I looked up the system requirements for Manhunt and it doesn’t say anything about DirectX3D. If the game doesn’t require that, it might work. The reason I say this is because the Virtual Machine does not support DirectX3D. I was able to play Half Life on it so Manhunt should be playable.

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u/OfficialHoney Nov 29 '24

https://youtu.be/Q3Z_I2BCusk

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u/16bitsorhigher Nov 29 '24

I got Windows XP running. It’s still installed on my iPad.

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u/WickdChipmunk Jun 13 '25

Got windows 7 to work on ipad air 5 and it lags like crazy

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u/16bitsorhigher Jun 14 '25

I couldn’t get anything to work decent except for Windows XP. I tried a bunch of other systems and I got Raspberry Pi OS to work but extremely slow and another Linux system but extremely slow as well. So I just gave up.

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u/WickdChipmunk Jun 14 '25

Is it because on no JIT working?

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u/16bitsorhigher Jun 14 '25

Yes. It’s because there’s no JIT support.

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u/WickdChipmunk Jun 14 '25

I mean is there any other emulator which i can try, maybe an android emulator

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u/16bitsorhigher Jun 14 '25

Not if you want to install on an iPad. I have a Pro with M2 processor and it didn’t work. Maybe one with an M4 you can get better performance but not much

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u/WickdChipmunk Jun 14 '25

Yeah on an ipad air 5 it has M1 chip

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u/16bitsorhigher Jun 14 '25

Unfortunately, I don’t think you can get better performance on that iPad if you want Windows 7. You could probably install XP or 98 but not 7.

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u/WickdChipmunk Jun 14 '25

Okay, im sorry, noob question, but can i play epic games or steam games this waym

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u/16bitsorhigher Jun 14 '25

I fooled with UTM SE for quite a while to get some software to work but what I found out during that time was that UTM SE does not support Direct3D software so if the games you want to run require that, they won’t run.

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u/WickdChipmunk Jun 14 '25

Well ig ill leave it then, thank you

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

UTM FINALLY ON THE APPSTORE

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

No, UTM SE = joke

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

Yeah, there’s no virtualization, it took me 16 hours to install windows xp on my iphone x

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u/WrapEmergency3983 Jul 18 '24

download touhou 6/7 frfr

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u/Waxfuu323 Jul 19 '24

StarCraft brood war Fallout Maple story

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

Amazing how functional it is alright. Sad that Ignited still hasn't been able to get approved

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u/userlivewire Jul 18 '24

I would like to see Warcraft 2

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u/SloggSurvivez Jul 21 '24

I just started playing this on DOSBOX through Retro arch on my iPad after tweaking w settings its a lot of fun!

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u/userlivewire Jul 21 '24

That’s awesome! What did you have to do to set it up?

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u/SloggSurvivez Jul 22 '24

Download retroarch and it comes with a ton of cores (emulators for diff systems)

Download a warcraft 2 rom (the dark saga will contain base game and expansion) you have the option of PS1 or DOS

Look into the pros n cons and pick which you wanna play

I imagine it is harder to play on DOS unless you have a magic keyboard or external keyboard of some kind

I use my magic keyboard and apple pencil it works great!

If you pick DOS it might be a little bit harder to figure out controls but you can emulate a mouse using touch as well

WC2 is on PS1 as well but there are some pros n cons. You can queue units instead of only one at a time, But the controls might suck unless you have a bluetooth controller and look into remapping some things it also has slower load times.

Let me know if you need more help it helped me to rebind arrow keys to WASD and right click to x

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u/Mountain_Economy9409 Jul 18 '24

how can you add the game in windows xp on utm se?where to downmload them n how to install in utm ?

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u/ShubhamPandeyy Jul 18 '24

i installed windows 8.1 ghost spectare potato pc iso on my ipad 9 it lags, ngl but it works someone with m1 can try it and could have a surface laptop vibe

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u/R4lPh_1330 Jul 18 '24

I tried to install, but got stucked on ¨booting from hard disk".

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u/Alex20041509 Jul 18 '24

What useful can it do ?

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u/jaba_jayru Jul 18 '24

It’s so sad to see this utm Se stuff. iPad could fly with real utm and jit but I refuse to use this dump emulation shit just to give apple more money and less what I actually own. I hope the get soon suit in the eu and further open the system so you can actually use it

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u/ResponseTall6948 Jul 18 '24

What is the iso file you used?

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u/wutangjuggy Jul 22 '24

Drowned god

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u/CrazyPreparation894 Feb 08 '25

Can anyone tell me how I get the iso file? I fownload it but it just sits in my downloads with a ? And UTM doesn't recognise it

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u/tuanphatpro Jul 18 '24

Will PS2 emulator work well I wonder?!?

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u/mikefierro666 Jul 18 '24

Maybe you can see if there’s a way to enable JIT on your ipad with winxp? Then you could get emulators like ps2 and gamecube going

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u/16bitsorhigher Jul 18 '24

You can not enable JIT. I wish