Filed under: Games, Retrocomputing
Did you know you could play Commodore 64 games on your iPhone?
The aptly-named Commodore 64 Emulator is yet again available in the App Store for the frugal sum of $4.99 (£2.99 for my fellow imperialists).
It was originally released back in June but unavailable due to violation of Apple's rules on launching executable code (which is what an emulator does). Then in September it was actually approved by Apple -- but only for a few days because of another security issue.
And now... it seems it's back! Properly! 30% faster!
There's bad news however: you can only play games downloaded from the App Store. No uploading your own abandonware ROMs I'm afraid. Maybe some enterprising fellow will manage to hack it...?
There's a fun and detailed 9 minute video of the emulator in action after the break.
[via TouchArcade -- or visit the emulator's official site]
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brady.matt said 1:02PM on 11-11-2009
If someone figures out how to hack it to use your own ROMs, Apple will just yank it again. That's pretty much what happened before - someone figured out how to get out of the ROM and into C-64 BASIC. Apple called that a security problem and pulled it from the store.
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Sebastian Anthony said 1:04PM on 11-11-2009
Ah, I thought it might've been something like that.
Lame!
Goatsrneat said 3:31PM on 11-11-2009
There's a Games folder inside the app on your iPhone and you can add your rims in there. Now watch apple pull the game again.
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BugMeNot said 5:58PM on 11-11-2009
Wow, I can add my rims? Is that for racing games?
Sebastian Anthony said 5:59PM on 11-11-2009
I was going to pass comment... but I thought it was kinda funny, just left there on its own :P
Goatsranimals said 6:18PM on 11-11-2009
Haha I meant ROMS (darn iPhone spell check) and I have already added several you just have to create a new folder an edit an ini file I belive to add your own games
Ronnie said 3:15PM on 12-09-2009
uhhh...why is it that youz guyz seems to think this is cool? c64? puke!!!! I'd rather play my atari. haha.
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