Harmattan QEMU

60 SECONDS · ENGLISH CAPTIONS · 4K / 60 FPS VIDEO

Nokia N9.
Running again on a Mac.

Watch the Nokia N9 MeeGo Harmattan experience running in QEMU on an Apple Silicon Mac: original Home, edge swipes, Notes, Maliit keyboard and Calculator.

Published September 5, 2026 · English trailer · Watch on YouTube ↗

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IN THE VIDEO

A minute with Harmattan.

On-screen text from the English trailer.

  1. 00:00

    Remember the swipe?

    One gesture. An unmistakable experience.

  2. 00:05

    Harmattan. Running again.

    Original ARM software. Running in QEMU.

  3. 00:12

    Original Home. One edge swipe.

    The original desktop, with touch scrolling.

  4. 00:22

    Your Notes. Your keyboard.

    Original Notes. Original Maliit keyboard.

  5. 00:32

    2 + 3 = 5. Just like before.

    The original Calculator, alive again.

  6. 00:40

    macOS preview. Ready to try.

    A prebuilt app. A matching source kit. Apple Silicon / macOS 26+. Guest disk and kernel required separately.

  7. 00:50

    Keep the swipe alive.

    Help preserve a piece of computing history. github.com/YZune/harmattan-qemu

Scope and production

This is real guest footage from the experimental N00/QEMU port, using a PR1.0-era kernel and adaptation layer with PR1.3 retail userspace. It does not demonstrate complete N9 hardware emulation or compatibility with every application.

The edited video is 3840 × 2160 at 60 fps, composing the original 480 × 864 guest surface inside a fixed N9 frame. These production settings are not a measurement of guest or original-device display performance. The instrumental score was composed and synthesized in code with GPT and Codex assistance, without sampled songs or narration.

N9 artwork in the video: Liwen Guo / Livven, using the creator’s local version with logo and glass gloss hidden. Thanks to QEMU, the Nokia N00/DGLES and Harmattan developers, the preservation community, GPT and Codex.

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