Two more Amiga apps ported to the iPhone

[EvilGuy]

Is philosophy not portable, and does it not transcend its underlying hardware?

Sure, it can be, but when you write apps for Apple (in particular the iPhone) you're writing apps with the Apple indoctrination.

Porting Amiga apps is cool, but to a platform that is so alien like the iPhone - saying its an Amiga port is simply trying to cash in on some brand loyalty.

[XDelusion]

I will say the first video has a very amusing intro! "To police officers who laid down their lives..."

Very amusing!

[Cammy]

Did anyone actually check those videos?

They are NOT Amiga applications, they aren't anything to do with Amigas. There was never some crappy, unlicenced Mr. T typing game for Amiga.

This is pure Apple fanboy spam. You argue for it? You want this? It makes you happy to see this on an Amiga forum? You guys should really look at what you're talking about first.

[spihunter]

I'm not sure why everyones getting so fired up. There's quite a few people here that have Iphones and Amiga's

[persia]

Exactly, as much as I love 1989, it's 2010 out there and having old familiar software on a modern platform is good.  Apple has inherited a fair amount of the legacy of the Amiga.  

I used to write software for the Amiga, then I stopped writing for any platform.  The iPhone got me back into software development again.  There something really neat about a pocket sized computer.  Had Commodore survived I bet the 2010 Amiga would have a pocket sized version...

I'm not sure why everyones getting so fired up. There's quite a few people here that have Iphones and Amiga's

[CaptChaos]

NISP

Most probably 90% of AMIGA developers are migrating to the Apple iPhone sdk... Impressive.

Apple.org Macsturbation thread TM. 2010

[runequester]

It always cracks me up when all the windows guys get riled up about macs. It's like a retarded kid picking on the fat kid in the playground.

[the_leander]

It always cracks me up when all the windows guys get riled up about macs. It's like a retarded kid picking on the fat kid in the playground.

/thread

[Karlos]

It always cracks me up when all the windows guys get riled up about macs. It's like a retarded kid picking on the fat kid in the playground.

It always cracks me up when people assume that to dislike Macs / MacOS X, you have to be a "windows guy".

OSX is, in my not so humble opinion, UNIX for numpties. Take a perfectly good OS and stick a condescending, dumb-it-down user interface on top of it that assumes you know next to nothing about UNIX or indeed computers in general. Yet don't neglect to stick the big silver "UNIX Based" badge all over the original marketing material; that's sure to impress. And when that "UNIX Based" OS crashes and dies on it's arse, blame it on applications, oooh say Flash, for example. At least AmigaOS never pretended to be immune from applications taking down the OS

And before anybody starts, yes, I used OSX. For two years at work in fact. Thankfully, I got a reduced sentence for good behaviour.

Now I'm using a modern UNIX-like OS that doesn't try to treat me as if I'm pond life.

[kickstart]

All of this mac products threads kill all interest of amiga.org.... really.

[adolescent]

To be clear, I wrote "WTF?" not because it was yet another Macsturbation thread, but because the videos posted had nothing to do with Amiga software.  Gun sounds and Mr. T typing?  I never saw that on the Amiga.

[lsmart]

The developer can run their own software on their own device

Oh? I have tried it and didn´t manage it, before I paid and got the keys from Apple. I haven´t tried to use the keys after the year was over, I just assumed they stopped working. Maybe I haven´t done my homework? :confused:

[adolescent]

That's not true. The developer can run their own software on their own device, and also issue certificates to a certain number of other devices to run on those. You only have to pay for the developer license if you want to publish on the app store.

No, that is not true.  In order to test on real hardware you need to be enrolled in the developer program and pay (a minimum) $99/year for the privilege.

http://developer.apple.com/programs/iphone/test.html#compare

[adolescent]

It always cracks me up when all the windows guys get riled up about macs. It's like a retarded kid picking on the fat kid in the playground.

And the Linux kids are the emo/goth ones right?  :roflmao:

[Karlos]

NISP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EaLE-qh0aE

AMOS Crazy Rabbit
(version 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBQOxCu2hKc

(version 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU22AAhgizY&feature=channel

Most probably 90% of AMIGA developers are migrating to the Apple iPhone sdk... Impressive.

Ok, so I just watched the videos. I have to uphold the original objection(s), what have they to do with amiga apps?

Can you actually provide some proof that these "applications" are ports of existing amiga applications and not something totally unrelated?

Until then, this thread can reside in the "Other Operating System" section.

[bloodline]

No, that is not true.  In order to test on real hardware you need to be enrolled in the developer program and pay (a minimum) $99/year for the privilege.

http://developer.apple.com/programs/iphone/test.html#compare

£50 for a full development environment, compilers, support libraries/frameworks, iPhone simulator, debugging, profiling tools, etc... great technical support, and the opportunity to publish your work at the end of it. Honestly, we never had anything as cool as that in the amiga days.

-Edit- see my blog for details