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C64 Emulator Finally Approved For iPhone

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the give-us-basic dept.

Gi0 writes "After a couple of months of rejection, the C64 Emulator has finally been approved for the iPhone (and is available at the app store now). 'BASIC has been removed for this release; however, we hope that working with Apple further will allow us to re-enable it. Despite its absence, BASIC is not our focus; ultimately, fans of the C64 want games.' It comes with 5 bundled games and will certainly give you that retro fix for your iPhone."

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  1. Commodore 64? by camperdave · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Commodore 64 emulator? You'd think they'd do an Apple II emulator.

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  2. Re:C64 without BASIC? by Cmdr-Absurd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It booted into the basic interpreter by default, leaving you with 38K for basic. You could configure the memory differently. Writing in assembly not only offered a huge improvement in speed, but freed up the memory range from B000 to Bfff. (And the C000 range was often used by calls to machine language subroutines from basic.)
    So, no, it was not just a basic interpreter.
    There's at least one running as a web server now.
    I won't post the link to it. It takes very little to induce the slashdot effect on that hardware.