Commodore 64 Runs Again On the iPhone

Hugh Pickens writes "Stephen Williams reports in the NY Times that the app recreating some of the Commodore's seminal retro games, including Le Mans, Dragons Den and Jupiter Lander, has been re-issued after being pulled in September. The app features SID sound emulation, auto-save to continue where you left off, and a realistic joystick with a beautifully crafted C64 keyboard. Apple originally rejected the program for violating the SDK agreement, which dictates that 'no interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).' After disabling the controversial feature, Apple published the app in September, but days later it was pulled and the developer was asked to remove, rather than just disable, the BASIC interpreter from the program, which would have allowed unscrupulous users to run unlicensed, emulated code on the iPhone or iPod Touch. 'The road was bumpy, but we remained persistent and made the changes Apple was looking for. Ultimately, BASIC has been removed for this release; however, we hope that working with Apple further will allow us to re-enable it,' the company wrote on its blog."

Comments

Another STUPID iPhone story!

[Hurricane78]

I had a C64 emulator on my Nokia 3650 in 2003/4! And a Gameboy emulator! And a MAMEmulator!
And all S60 phones from then on had it. And probably tons of other phones.

But because it's a stupid iPhone, from its stupid user community, who have never seen or heard anything from outside their reality distortion bubble, it must get a special mentioning!
Khat's next? An article about a SSH client? (Won't work, since the dumb iPhone hasn't even got all the necessary character buttons on its "keyboard" to properly use it.)

Oh iPhone. You're really "special". Just like your users are "special"... (Yeah, in that "special" sense. ^^)

Re:GPL violation?

[cheekyboy]

Froddo a free to spend 1000hrs to make their own iphone app that is free and has full source too.

Or are they too snub?