C64 emulator pulled off App Store News
iPhone News by Robert Purchese
Manomio's C64 emulator has been pulled from the iPhone App Store, after brainy users discovered a way into the computer's operating system, allowing them to create and run BASIC programs.
Apple can't monitor those, so the stylish super-company quickly vanished the App, moments before Manomio could submit a new, fixed build.
The developer, speaking to Pocket Gamer, said it was hard at work setting up a meeting with Apple so it could get to the core of the issue before someone pips it to the post.
Manomio's C64 emulator raced into the top 20 paid-for Apps list after just two days on sale, and even breached the top 10 in some territories.
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GiarcYekrub
08/09/09 @ 17:28
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Can't you get apps from third party vendors? Besides I thought the iPhone would run homebrew apps anyway
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beastmaster
08/09/09 @ 18:44
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V=54296
that's alll I can remember. I think that was the address of video chip. Can't remember the one for the sound. I can't remember much these days :-( |
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Hmm lets see if I remember, I was a very young boy back then....
Poke 53280,1 wasnt it ? I remember learning assembler and feeling my brain almost fall out swapping those registers all the way. Nifty little machine, I still look back in admiration, remembering Elite docking maneuvers and how I drew countless maps in The Bards Tale series (took me a whole summer vacation to finish part 2) Geeez Im old. |
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SeesThroughAll
08/09/09 @ 19:44
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Hehehehe!
Yes, you should edit the BASIC loader by adding the POKE commands just before the RANDOMIZE USR xxxx (that launches the program starting at the specified memory address). Good times, good times! :) |
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10 Print "Apple sucks"
20 Goto 10 30 End I win in the category "cleanest code". :p Would be fun to get some old crackto or demo running on that emulator melting the Ipod. ;) Oh yeah and they threw us out of some computer shops, too after we did it on every machine we could find.
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Bazfrag:"Syntax error in line 10"
Not in mine. ? was shorthand for PRINT, and ; would prevent a carriage return, so it'd fill the screen rather than just print a long column :) dingo75:"I win in the category "cleanest code". :p" You win in a pointless third line which would never be executed ;p
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fiery_jackass
09/09/09 @ 07:42
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>dingo75
re the clean code: not only do you have a spurious 3rd line, as has already been swiftly pointed out, you could also add a line break or even a space to allow a bit more legibility in your output There is, however, a pleasing mantra effect to "Apple sucksApple sucksApple sucks". If nothing else, it suggests that this most masturbatory of companies can also auto-fellate
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ur all wusses. this is how men write code:
*=$c000 sei lda #irq sta $0314 stx $0315 cli lda #$00 tay tax jsr $1000 rts irq lda $d012 cmp #100 bne irq jsr $1003 jmp $ea31 apart from that: lame move by Apple. /me starts to dislike Apple as much as Ninty...
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Yes, agreed. Although Frodo being open-source means there's likely no one single "author", the situation's likely to be far more complicated.
And more than that, the App developer is I believe also required to release to the public all their modified source code. I should note however that I've not done massive amounts of research into how valid the allegations are, although the discussions I've seen have been vociferous enough to make me think they probably are true. |
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I hate those guys from apple. I mean from the one side they are great because they have done this app store and so on, but from the other side they are removing not the first application which is my favorite one. Manomio's C64 emulator is the great one and irt really helped me a lot. I hope Apple will change their minds because of that. Thanks for the investigation and I will be waiting for more interesting news from you in the future.
James Burton from mobile application development |
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