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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?
10 PRINT “this app is awesome”
20 GOTO 10
RUN
10 PRINT “this app is awesome”
20 GOTO 10
RUN
ps. I really did buy it and It’s quite a cool app.
Good news, fans of classic gaming. According to AppleInsider, the previously-rejected Commodor 64 emulator app for the iPhone has now been approved. The application, made by developer Manomio, was initially rejected because it did not fall in line with Apple’s SDK. Visit http://www.i4u.com/article26777.html for more info.
#19 Actually, more pathetic than a MS fanboi is a macfan trying to pass incognito. You, of course. But not to worry, fail is in the essence of any respecting (can you even use that word next to macfan?) macfan.
#22 You left the best part out. “After extensive suck-up session with Jobs, they demonstrated they had absolutely no spine & turned into followers of the word of Jobs. Looking at their repent and following their punishment consisting in hearing at pre-recorded rejection words from Jobs, they were allowed to have their app in the mac store”
So when you save games (I assume you’ll be able to save games), do you have to remember to append “,8,1″ ?
How long until the Commodore AMIGA emulator?
I guess this is Apple’s desperate attempt at saying “Hey! We’re a gaming thingy too! Just like the DS and PSP!”
Yeah right.
Where’s the Vectrex emulator? I wanna play some Blitz!
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I will hold out until they are allowed to add BASIC. Then I can program my own awesome iPhone games.
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Sorry, Apple is run by d**ks. They do not allow any programming language emulators. The company (Manomio) and submitted this app had it pulled when Apple found they basic interpreter was still there, but hidden even. So they re-submitted the app WITHOUT the basic interpreter.
Yes, that’s how f**ked up Apple is…not only is BASIC on a C64 of no threat to them, in the least, they STILL wouldn’t allow even BASIC on a C64 as ‘competition’. Apple sucks. Open up all ready!
P.S. I LOVE LOVE the iPhone as an example of brilliant industrial design. Same with the original iPods. But I’ll never own one since it’s SO just a trendy “must have” accessory now. I avoided the Members Only jackets and BOSE stereos of the 80s and I’ll happily avoid this little trendy “must have” as well.
# 28 Don’t worry Iowa Boy. Apple failed in the 80′s because they were more closed than IBM/DOS. They will fail again soon for the same reasons – history always repeats itself.
#29 I don’t think so. People these days are just bend-over suckers.
And now it is gone…
“It was a glorious few moments for retro gamers when Manomio’s C64 emulator was finally approved by Apple and released to the eager, nostalgic iPhone public. Then, calamity! It was gone again. Apparently some wily users figured out how to access the Commodore 64 BASIC system that was originally packaged with the emulator — something that Apple wasn’t too happy with, given the nature of the interpreter’s code. By setting the keyboard to ‘always on’, launching a game and restarting BASIC, players got into the ‘empty shell’ of their C64 emulator.”
I just took my mom back by letting her play Yoshi’s Cookie and Dr. Mario on my NES emulator. She says she feels 15 years younger.
I was visiting my younger cousins, and I had my Nintendo 64 with Donkey Kong 64. That cartridge has the arcade Donkey Kong on it. I hadn’t gotten past the second stage when my cousins, brought up with a PS2, say “This is boring, let’s play ‘Bust-A-Move’ on the PS2.” So disappointing.
Another anecdote: I walk into a Gamestop and a kid is playing the Wii remake of ‘Punch-Out!’ I make a comment, “They oughta put Mike Tyson back in this game, see how he looks.” The kid, oblivious to the throwback ['Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!' for the NES], says that Fight Night Round 4 has Mike Tyson, and you can even have him fight Muhammed Ali. I almost told him to get me his parents because they weren’t raising him right.
OMEGA RACE!
Good post, but have you thought about Apple Approves Officially-licensed Commodore 64 Emulator for iPhone before?