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Licensed C64 Emulator Rejected From App Store

Posted by Soulskill on from the insufficient-quantities-of-hip dept.

Miasik.Net writes "A fully licensed Commodore 64 iPhone emulator has been rejected from the App Store. The excuse Apple used is a clause in the SDK agreement which doesn't allow for applications that run executable code. It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."

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  1. Re:Read the article much ? by Bluecobra · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you RTFA, you will find that Manomio contacted Apple Europe before developing the app and they "seemed really excited". So here we have yet another developer wasting time and money just to have Apple reject another application despite approving others that do the same thing. I really hope Manomio decides to port his C64 app to the Android instead so some of us can enjoy it.

  2. Re:Running specific or arbitrary code? by MtHuurne · · Score: 5, Informative

    After reading the article and the Manomio's site, I get the impression that they do not run arbitrary code, but they do download the game images separately from the emulator, which the license does not allow.

  3. Re:Idiotic Summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only way a C64 program could "break out" is if the emulator has a security hole - and how is this different from any other app? sendmail and BIND aren't emulators, yet they've had tons of security holes.

  4. Re:Idiotic Summary by eddy · · Score: 4, Informative

    >But let's not start reviling them for merely following their stated policy.

    If they are following their stated policy, explain how "sid player" was okayed, since it's an emulator that interprets executable code, which is downloaded on-the-fly.

    I think the problem people have with the appstore, is that Apple enforce their policies using dice.

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  5. Re:Running specific or arbitrary code? by laird · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly. Congrat's on being the only person in the discussion to read the article.

    Apple did not reject the app because of emulation. Apple rejected the app because it contains a C64 Store that looks like it bypasses the Apple Store, allowing users to download C64 software straight into the emulator. That's prohibited, whether it's interpreted or compiled.

    All of this was clear in Apple's rejection notice, quoted in the actual article.

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