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Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store
Rob Hearn sends in a piece up at PocketGamer.co.uk on why Apple suddenly pulled Manomio's C64 emulator soon after finally approving it. (El Reg has coverage too.) "It was a glorious few moments for retro gamers when Manomio's C64 emulator was finally approved by Apple and released to the eager, nostalgic iPhone public. Then, calamity! It was gone again. Apparently some wily users figured out how to access the Commodore 64 BASIC system that was originally packaged with the emulator — something that Apple wasn't too happy with, given the nature of the interpreter's code. By setting the keyboard to 'always on,' launching a game and restarting BASIC, players got into the 'empty shell' of their C64 emulator."
Try to take over the world.
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10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
Banned: Duplicates text display functionality.
The same thing everyone used to do with the C64 out in front of Radio Shack back in the day...
10 PRINT "PENIS!!!!!!"
20 GOTO 10
They are still bitter that C64 games were better than Apple ][e games back in the day...
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Among a certain crowd, that program passes the Turing test.
...they learned how to jailbreak their Commodore 64 too...
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
"By setting the keyboard to 'always on', launching a game and restarting BASIC, players got into the 'empty shell' of their C64 emulator."
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Next thing you know they'll block my app that allows users to connect a cassette tape drive. The nerve....
Among a certain crowd, that program passes the Turing test.
Unlike vagina, penis would certainly pass at least Turing's test.
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GEOS runs on most C64 emus so I'd have to guess yes. However, you can only execute the disk images that are available in the appstore. LAME.
LAME? MP3 encoding on a C64? Cool!
Sir, please remove your head from there. Mr. Jobs wishes to turn around without breaking your neck.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
No, they banned it because they are dickwads. Any reason they give is merely cover for this fact.
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C'mon now, that's below the belt.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
It was kinda fun to live in that age when people were gullible enough to accept ANYTHING that popped up on screen.
Yeah, we're way more savvy these... OHHH, A talking moose wants my credit card number! That's only fair.
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