No Commodore 64 emualtor for iPhone

[jj]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/22/commodore_itunes/

[save2600]

That would be an affirmative for users of 'cracked' iPhones though.

http://useloos.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=7116

[quarkx]

Ruling bodes badly for Spectrum

LOL,
SO..many..IPhone/apple jokes for this.... must reframe from.. trolling....like why would Apple what to emulate a system that's better then the Iphone anyway....
opps ... sorry..

[bloodline]

I don't imagine you'd get away with an actual emulation, not in actionscript at any rate.

Having said that, there is a javascript 6502 emulator page out there somewhere. I just can't imagine someone writing a 680x0 emulator in a language like that

The above is a quote from Karlos in another thread...

You have to wonder, could a C64 emulator be written in Javascript? If it could, then you could run it on an iPhone happily (or any webkit device)... with the new HTML5 tags, I think one could write something really quite reasonable!

[klx300r]

LOL,
.....like why would Apple what to emulate a system that's better then the Iphone anyway....
..

LOL...totally agree :-)

[ElPolloDiabl]

I looovvve the raster graphics. Looked silky in performance. Shame Apple don't want it. Maybe it was too good. They thought it was better than the iphone OS3.0 interface.
They don't make 'em like they use too. (As the saying goes.)

[Marcb]

LOL,
SO..many..IPhone/apple jokes for this.... must reframe from.. trolling....like why would Apple what to emulate a system that's better then the Iphone anyway....
opps ... sorry..

:laughing:   So who is going to start the "C64 better than Iphone?" thread?

[DiskDoctor]

@bloodline

good point, thanks.

:laughing:   So who is going to start the "C64 better than Iphone?" thread?

Or even -

"is iPhone playing C=64 catchup?" :lol:

[chiark]

That would be an affirmative for users of 'cracked' iPhones though.

http://useloos.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=7116

What you makes you think that?  That video is from manomeo, the developers: the Apple SDK allows you to deploy to devices for testing if you pay your $99...  It's not necessarily a jailbroken phone.  Unless I'm missing something?

I personally want to see it in Cydia Paid Apps

[jj]

think they are saying that users of cracked iphones will be able to use the emulator

[bloodline]

think they are saying that users of cracked iphones will be able to use the emulator

Or if I port the emulator myself... Apple allow you to run any software you care to code/port on your own phone.

[koaftder]

Publisher Manomio thought it was on to a good thing; cashing in on all those iPhone users still desperate to hear the congratulatory speech at the end of Impossible Mission, but despite apparently having the vocal support of Apple Europe, the completed application fell foul of the iTunes rules and won't be available.

Boo Hoo. I'm registered in the dev program for iPod Touch/iPhone and the first thing I did was read the license. No doubt they did too. No whining when violate terms you willfully agreed to.

Apple probably doesn't want to risk liability from hosting rom warez on iTunes, but I'd guess the main reason for the no VM clause is to prevent folks from completely subverting the app store.

[bloodline]

Any object to continuing this thread as a disscusion regarding writing an emulator in Javascript and using the HTML 5 DOM for I/O... I suggest we stet with the C64 as our ref platform

[koaftder]

Any object to continuing this thread as a disscusion regarding writing an emulator in Javascript and using the HTML 5 DOM for I/O... I suggest we stet with the C64 as our ref platform

I think that would be awesome. Isn't there an NES emulator floating around, written in JS? 500MHz ARM should be enough to do it, even with all the overhead.

[bloodline]

I think that would be awesome. Isn't there an NES emulator floating around, written in JS? 500MHz ARM should be enough to do it, even with all the overhead.

Certainly the latest JS engines are getting some crazy good benchmarks! I think the JS engine on the iPhone is "Nitro", and that rocks!!!