Amiga Emulator Reaches iPhone

[DonnyEMU]

http://www.bestiphoneappmatic.com/news/manomio-demonstrates-amiga-and-atari-2600-emulators-for-iphone

Very cool for all looking for the "pocket retro Amiga"..

[ognix]

Surely a nice job: everything seems to run smooth (which is VERY important for an Amiga feeling).
But generally I'm very skeptic about the "touch interface" in general, especially for playing games, classics even more.
I won't feel good with such kind of controller...

I had a touch phone (ok, not the iPhone but a basic LG Cookie) and after few months I sold it, mainly because touch is fancy, but far from being comfortable in the long run, from what I expect from a phone (eg. one-hand-operation only, preciseness of operations).

Anyway it's a good job!
Merry compliments for 68k code ARM optimized!

[motorollin]

Hopefully the developer is negotiating a license for a Kickstart image to be included. I can see a lot of 1 star app store reviews if people realise they have to go looking for a ROM image...

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moto

[jay]

wish i could afford an iphone! looks very cool though. It gets people talking about the amiga again.

[motorollin]

wish i could afford an iphone! looks very cool though. It gets people talking about the amiga again.

Everyone can afford an iPhone. You just haven't sold enough organs yet

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moto

[nicholas]

Everyone can afford an iPhone. You just haven't sold enough organs yet

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moto

How old fashioned!

I think 1997 was the last time I had to pay for both my phone AND the contract.

[Piru]

Hopefully the developer is negotiating a license for a Kickstart image to be included. I can see a lot of 1 star app store reviews if people realise they have to go looking for a ROM image...

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moto

Apple doesn't allow generic emulators for iPhone anyway, so this is a moot point. Such emulators are only possible via jailbreaking.

Floppy bootable trackloading games are easy to hack to work without full KS ROM.

[odin]

The person who hacks a 9-pin joystick port on the iDevices wins a prize. Only that way would the games actually become playable...

Touchscreens are useless as a control device for action games.

[motorollin]

Apple doesn't allow generic emulators for iPhone anyway, so this is a moot point. Such emulators are only possible via jailbreaking.

I'm aware that emulators aren't allowed, but there was a recent project discussed on this site about a developer who was going to try to get an Amiga emulator on the App Store. I think if it only plays specific games (like the C64 emulator on the App Store) then Apple will allow it, since they can test it and predict what will happen when users run it - unlike a totally open emulator.

Floppy bootable trackloading games are easy to hack to work without full KS ROM.

Ok, so perhaps the emulator would be bundled with games which don't need KS.

[motorollin]

The person who hacks a 9-pin joystick port on the iDevices wins a prize. Only that way would the games actually become playable...

Touchscreens are useless as a control device for action games.

http://icontrolpad.com/

[Piru]

I'm aware that emulators aren't allowed, but there was a recent project discussed on this site about a developer who was going to try to get an Amiga emulator on the App Store. I think if it only plays specific games (like the C64 emulator on the App Store) then Apple will allow it, since they can test it and predict what will happen when users run it - unlike a totally open emulator.

Well from quick read I understood they will be selling standalone "applications" that include the emulation and the specific game, not full emulator.

Ok, so perhaps the emulator would be bundled with games which don't need KS.

Or they hack the trackloader to work without KS rom (many games already work out of the box with the KS ROM replacement included with UAE, but even if they don't it's usually trivial to hack the trackloader to work).

[ChaosLord]

Well from quick read I understood they will be selling standalone "applications" that include the emulation and the specific game, not full emulator.

Even when limiting the emulator to a single game, Steve Jobs, in his infinite wisdom, still won't allow any sort of JIT to be used.

[Acill]

I've seen the emulator in reviews and it looks great. I'm even working with the author to show it off this year at Amiwest. With luck I'll be able to do it. So far the couple games released using it work perfectly and are very nice to play on both the iPad and iPhone.