Engadget.com
Well, it’s almost certainly not a signal that Apple is opening the door to emulators of all sorts on the iPhone, but the newly (and finally) approved Commodore 64 emulator is still a fairly notable first for the platform — representing not only the first officially-available emulator, but perhaps the first app that actually runs code (even if it is a couple of decades old).
Does anyone really want to play 20 year old games?
If only Cloanto was to release amigaos 3.9 (amigaforever) for the iphone and others i would not use the phone for anything else =)
Finally, good games on the iPhone.
20 year old games? Space Invaders! THE reason I bought an Atari.
Well, and Tetris and Pacman would be cool, too.
is there an apple II emulator? idle prying minds wanna know…
I like 20-yo games, these modern ones just don’t have the gameplay and longevity of the originals.
hhopper pondered: “Does anyone really want to play 20 year old games?”
Well, you can ask countless of people who play arcade (MAME) emulators, NES & SNES emulators, Sega Genesis Emu’s, atari emu’s & gameboy emu’s on pocket pc’s for 7 years already. Same with DOS emu’s & scientific calcs emu’s on the same platform. Or duke nuke’em, or guitar hero or…
I’ve always enjoyed when kids watch my kid playing gameboy on what used to be my wince 2002 pocket pc
Only, it seems to be news when lameass apple fanboi has it 7 years too late
They approve it because the games have no tits.
[What about Leisure Suit Larry? - ed.]
Crank comment: Where’s the Intelevision II emulator at?
Why stop there? Let’s have an Eniac emulator too, so we can all remember the (painful) glory days of punch cards and machine language.
#8 Here http://tinyurl.com/lo7xkv
“Say you want to play a video game where your character can die of dysentery. Well … there’s an app for that.”
I would readily play any of the Bard’s Tale series.
If only that didn’t necessitate reading the xth word in the yth paragraph from the user manual, or even worse, the dreaded rune wheel.
Back in the day, software companies were at least imaginative in their methods of copy protection.
Wow! “Breathtaking Technology” emerges from the REALITY DISTORTION FIELD !!!
P.S. Eniac never had punch cards, it had Wired Plug Boards for it’s programs and only stored DATA and results in Memory !
>> Does anyone really want to play 20 year old games?
I do, especially for just killing a little time while waiting for the bus something.
I just can’t wait to program in BASIC again:
10 x=1
20 x=x+1
30 Print x
40 GOTO 20
What Fun!!!
The lack or an on-the-fly programmable spreadsheet, Matlab, or even BASIC programming environment relegates the Iphone to the status of a toy.
But His Greatness has spoken, thou shall not program thine own apps.
I wish Google would speed things along with their Linux-based Android.
When I tried to buy the c64 app, it says “App is no longer available”
Here get this instead, you will be happier with the games it plays….
http://newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16868110036
Comes in at about 1.5 months of the lowest iPhone rent you will ever pay.
#6 Pedro
The only thing worse than a lameass Apple fanboi is a lameass Microsoft fanboi
Actually Linux fanboi’s can be irritating as well, but half the time I cant understand what they’re on about!
Seriously, you say? YES OF COURSE! THOSE ARE LIKE THE BEST GAMES FOR THE iPHONE!