Recently, a project by developer ammaarreshi went viral in the real-time strategy community. He managed to create a full port of Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour using modern AI technologies.
Another developer, Kahris (@chrissotraidis), noticed the project and decided to do something similar – he recalled a Blizzard Entertainment classic:
Inspired by ammaarreshi running Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour natively on iPad, I did the same for Warcraft II using Codex 5.6 Sol. This is an open-source Stratagus/Wargus engine compiled for ARM64, rendering via Metal with SDL2.
Kahris clarified that Warcraft II runs on iPad without emulation:
No emulators, no x86, no streaming from Mac. Campaigns, skirmishes, and save/load – everything works, with touch controls. This is the first time I've seen Warcraft II run natively on iPad.
The project to port Warcraft II to peonpad was named "peonpad" and published on GitHub (chrissotraidis repository).
Another project, "Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad," is also published in open access.