A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.
A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.
Pegasus is a graphical frontend for browsing your game library (especially retro games) and launching them from one place. It's focusing on customizability, cross platform support (including embedded devices) and high performance.
Instead of launching different games with different emulators one by one manually, you can add them to Pegasus and launch the games from a friendly graphical screen from your couch. You can add all kinds of artworks, metadata or video previews for each game to make it look even better!
With additional themes, you can completely change everything that is on the screen. Add or remove UI elements, menu screens, whatever. Want to make it look like Kodi? Steam? Any other launcher? No problem. You can add animations and effects, 3D scenes, or even run your custom shader code.
Pegasus can run on Linux, Windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi, Odroid and Android devices. It's compatible with EmulationStation metadata and gamelist files, and instantly recognizes your Steam games!
Don’t waste time trying to run SSMS on Mac natively. Azure Data Studio is the official, modern, cross-platform way forward.
| Tool | Notes | |------|-------| | (Microsoft) | Free, lightweight, cross-platform. Built on VS Code. Supports most admin tasks, notebooks, IntelliSense. Best official alternative. | | DBeaver (Free/Pro) | Universal database tool. Works with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. | | TablePlus (Freemium) | Native macOS app, clean UI, supports SQL Server via ODBC. | | DataGrip (Paid, JetBrains) | Powerful IDE for SQL, cross-platform. | | VS Code + SQL Server (mssql) extension | Free, lightweight, great for query editing and execution. | | HeidiSQL (via Wine) – unstable | Not recommended for daily work. | Azure Data Studio is Microsoft’s intended modern replacement for SSMS on macOS and Linux. What About SQL Server Itself on Mac? You can run SQL Server 2017+ for Linux in a Docker container on macOS. Example: ssms on mac
docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=YourStrong!Password" \ -p 1433:1433 --name sqlserver -d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest Then connect via Azure Data Studio, DBeaver, etc. Works fine on Intel and Apple Silicon (with Rosetta or ARM images). | Need | Recommendation | |------|----------------| | Must run SSMS exactly | Use a Windows VM on Mac or Remote Desktop | | Just need to manage SQL Server from Mac | Use Azure Data Studio or DBeaver | | Light query editing | VS Code + mssql extension | | Run SQL Server locally | Docker container | Don’t waste time trying to run SSMS on Mac natively
