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Previously Rejected Commodore 64 Emulator Approved and Available on App Store
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This is great and all.. except we only get to emulate that piece of crap Commode-Door 64.
Give us a real computer of the era... the Atari 800! Superior in every way!
and then... i will kick all your asses at Bruce Lee. seriously, i ruled that game.
Give us a real computer of the era... the Atari 800! Superior in every way!
and then... i will kick all your asses at Bruce Lee. seriously, i ruled that game.
Actually, no, I didn't - The truth is that I'm not much of a gamer. I think over the past two decades, I've played maybe a half-dozen games that I've really liked: Galaga, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Bros, Zaxxon, and some stuff on the Wii. So I never think to look in the app store because I just assume the licensing isn't going to happen. My first Windows Mobile device had Sonic on it and I loved it, but beyond the desktop emulators you can run on a Mac (which use illegal ROMs) I haven't thought to play on an iPod Touch until today's C64 emulator article.
Downloading now - yay! Thanks - I'm going to search for all my old favorites.
Downloading now - yay! Thanks - I'm going to search for all my old favorites.
Seriously **** the app store. With all there confusion and oh your time icon looks just like ours ********...... Im am so sick of apple and i am gunna come out and say it i am a fanboy. I seriously want to get rid of my iPhone as much as i love it its been the best phone ive ever had. But i want something that ACTUALLY HAS SERVICE! and everything doesnt either get rejected or crippled to wifi....
**** AT&T
**** Apple
**** iPhone.....
My god that was hard t say.......
Save the drama for your mama.
C64 is the greatest single computer ever released. Period. It's the best-selling computer of all time, and the software-library it has is quite simply staggering.
Maybe we could get Amiga 500 emulator next
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Unlike other random App Store rejections, this one has a bit of sense to it. You see, the problem with running an interpreter on a device is that it can be used as a vector to execute unsigned code. The last thing Apple needs is an app that can be used to easily jailbreak your phone (or worse).
C64 is the greatest single computer ever released. Period. It's the best-selling computer of all time, and the software-library it has is quite simply staggering.
Maybe we could get Amiga 500 emulator next
Oh yes...that would be very cool indeed.
(side bar....I wish the guys who do the Amiga Forever emulator would do an Apple version...I've been asking for years but they say there isn't a big enough user base
)As for the fool who says the C64 is a POC......nuff said ;-)
It can't, unless the emulator author actually wrote their own proprietary bridge between BASIC and the iPhone's filesystem. I think the point is that Apple don't want to allow this for fear of it being the thin end of the wedge. Obviously there's no official system of precedent for the store, but there's a vague unofficial one forming through blogger outrage.Call me crazy, but I don't see how Commodore BASIC could be used to write malicious code!
These apps are sandboxed anyway......
Hopefully, the developer includes Contiki at some point.
A Vic-20 emulator would be awesome too!
For the purposes of the main discussion, I have to point out that the best 8bit micro was in fact the ZX Spectrum. That's why it has proper 3d versions of games like Hard Drivin' and Carrier Command.
I loved Winter Games and Summer Olympics. Oh, and a game called Raid over Moscow. I learned my Russian geography from the game b/c is showed Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad on the map.
Of course part of the reason that I liked the C64 so much was it's improvement over my Atari. I'm really showing my age...
Of course part of the reason that I liked the C64 so much was it's improvement over my Atari. I'm really showing my age...
Remember when this came out? You needed something the size of modern floor mac in order to computer, save, display graphics, probably bigger, and it couldn't even come close to the computing power and memory of an iPhone today....
Why someone wants to relive the garbage on that system is a mystery.
I miss those clunky graphics and limited colors like I miss a kidney stone.
Why someone wants to relive the garbage on that system is a mystery.
How about just an Apple ][+???
I miss those clunky graphics and limited colors like I miss a kidney stone.
There is no way for Commodore BASIC to run malicious code in this emulator - it's a sandbox in a sandbox
Screw that! Give us an emulator for the best damned computer of that era:
The Apple IIgs.
Seriously, I still think that was one of the best computers Apple ever built. I still have an image of the 120MB hard drive my Dad plugged into it with all the games and everything else in Sweet16. I'd love to have some classic titles on my iPhone, like The Bard's Tale II, which should be adaptable enough.
The Apple IIgs.
Seriously, I still think that was one of the best computers Apple ever built. I still have an image of the 120MB hard drive my Dad plugged into it with all the games and everything else in Sweet16. I'd love to have some classic titles on my iPhone, like The Bard's Tale II, which should be adaptable enough.
I got an exclusive interview with the designer of C64, check it out on my blog.
http://copenhagencocoa.com/2009/09/06/interview-with-c64-designer/
http://copenhagencocoa.com/2009/09/06/interview-with-c64-designer/
Good luck with that... There seems a pretty poor choice at the moment!
Definitely a step in the right direction, but i think i'll be avoiding for the moment until some of the better C64 titles appear... For me, that'll be IK+, Thing on a Spring, Monty Mole, Suicide Express, Raid on Bungling Bay etc, etc.. Not to mention having the ability to load up the old C64 demos... That would have to be a must too
I just found my C64 in the loft! Was thinking of eBaying it. I remember Raid over Moscow too, and the Olympics games that knackered your joystick as you had to wiggle them left and right really fast.
Talking of which there was also Strip Poker....
<goes to loft>is this front page stuff?
Yes. You obviously never owned a C64
True C64 fans however can get the VICE emulator for Mac OSX and play with a Competition Pro USB stick. Now back to playing Last Ninja....
is this front page stuff?
It is if you're trying to promote your sister website, toucharcade.com!
(which I don't really mind, btw)
Anyhoo, call me when Intellivision shows up. And doesn't the iPhone/iPT platform need a dedicated control peripheral? Something that wraps around and provides a D-Pad, some buttons, and maybe even an analog stick?