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Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."
Pandering to the Apple fanboys like everyone else seems to be? Oh come on Aaron, would you jump off a cliff just because everyone else ... oh.
I'm getting old. I remember C being regarded as a high level language designed with portability in mind.
iPhone apps are compiled using LLVM, which provides its own virtual machine, not unlike the JVM and CLR. Does that make C a high level language?
That is just so wrong, it hurts to read it.
Wrong as in factually incorrect or Wrong as in 350 pound man wearing a Sailor Moon costume?
(You're welcome for that lovely image too)
I'll meet you at the intersection of "Should be" and "Reality"
Of course you're right... Why would Apple care? After all, ripping off ideas and selling them out as their own is not a new idea, just ask Steve Jobs about pretty much any Apple product!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
The basic problem is that One person liked Lemmings first... then everybody else followed him!
Bill
It's my Sig and you can't have it. Mine! All Mine!
... no we did NOT ride dinosaurs to work.
Obviously! They pulled the carriage!
And the GP responds to AC as AC. Amazing!