C64 emulator back on App Store News

iPhone News by Robert Purchese

16 November, 2009

Manomio has written to tell us the Commodore 64 emulator is back on the App Store.

The program failed to meet Apple's SDK terms when first released, but has returned as a more rule-obedient and better performing application.

Manomio has also added three more games - International Soccer, International Basketball and International Tennis - to take the initial count up to eight.

We're also told that version 1.2 of C64 is en route, bringing many more games to purchase in-App - plus freebies such as Bruce Lee.

C64 costs �2.99 from the iTunes App Store.

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uglygamer

16/11/09 @ 14:45

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Not that I buy games anymore on the ipod, but this is good for the nostalgic gamers.

Retroid [mod]

16/11/09 @ 14:48

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\o/ Beige breadbin \o/

sugapunk

16/11/09 @ 14:55

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Comes with a pants selection of games though :(

If they added Monty On The Run I'd be getting it straight away.

lukaz

16/11/09 @ 15:08

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That's a joke. A C64 emulator and only a few selected games are allowed to run. But it seems Apple can do anything today.

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sugapunk

16/11/09 @ 15:18

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No BASIC either :(

sugapunk

16/11/09 @ 15:22

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POKE 53280,1

GamesConnoisseur

16/11/09 @ 15:23

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If they can expand the software line up with purchasble games, think quite a few gamers ll love this. If its costs fraction of a pint, heck worth the trip back to early 80s!

Though I m firmly in Speccy camp, but played quite a few of classy C64 games on my mates.

Toothball

16/11/09 @ 15:44

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Hmm, there's probably going to be more games on the C64 store than the Euro PSN soon.

Retroid [mod]

16/11/09 @ 16:56

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Monty on the Run, Thing on a Spring, Pitstop II....

Thing is, I'm not sure how well they'd play on a touchscreen. They can be hard enough to play on phones with Dpads.

udat

16/11/09 @ 17:10

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Paradroid!

And presumably they'll have to sort out rights/pricing/royalties on a per game or possibly per publisher basis, assuming they can even determine who the rights holders are these days.

mcbain23

16/11/09 @ 17:12

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paradroid++

FogHeart

16/11/09 @ 17:56

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Anything from Thalamus! (but especially Armalyte).

George Roper

16/11/09 @ 22:58

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The pricing on this is almost as bad as on the Wii.

Almost.

Bander

17/11/09 @ 02:41

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In other news, users of other smartphones are still able to emulate the C64 without software limits, as has been the case for about 6 years, and wonder what the fuss is about.

*goes back to playing Neo Geo arcade games on phone. Well, not really, as it's late, but I can*

Retroid [mod]

17/11/09 @ 10:37

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@Bander: Well, quite. I was playing C64 games on my original Ngage (Dpad FTW, sidetalking FTL) four years ago. And it was free.

DDevil

17/11/09 @ 11:45

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