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Since this is about old iPod technology, I thought this might be interesting here:

I’ve been working on getting the real Apple iPod Classic 6G firmware running in QEMU. It currently emulates two clickwheel iPods, including the display ,click wheel input and music player.

https://github.com/davidmonterocrespo24/qemu-ipod-classic

Still a work in progress

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> Still a work in progress

Wow, over 100k commits! It is definitively a work in progress, and an impressive one as well. :)

Edit: Ah, I now see that it is a fork of qemu-ios, but it is still cool. :)

It's a fork of https://github.com/devos50/qemu-ios. The idea is to reverse engineer the Samsung S5L8702 SoC to emulate the real system.

Great! Maybe someday it will also help unlock the possibility of replacing the nands on old iPods so they can be reused.

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