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iPhone C64 emulator approved, released News
iPhone Retro News by Robert Purchese
Manomio's C64 emulator has finally been approved for iPhone and can be bought for the princely sum of £2.99.
Bundled games are Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck and Jack Attack.
More will be released soon, according to the App Store listing - including Bristle, Astro Cheese and Commodore Sports Pack I.
But they're old, so we're not sure why you'd bother.
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JohnnyWashnGo
07/09/09 @ 10:23
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Thing on a Spring FTW.
Glad to see the iPhone can now, legally, do what my CFW PSP has been doing, illegally, for years. |
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cianchristopher
07/09/09 @ 10:27
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Oooohhh, bring back Battle Through TIme. That was cool! Anyone remember that one?
Also, The Way of the Exploding Fist! Rock out with your c*ck out! |
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But....how do I control the games?
This picture should give you an idea... http://cache.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/164324_S/... |
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Mentalist(air)
07/09/09 @ 10:49
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What it needs is the ability to load games based on playing an audio cassette of game data to the iphone's mouthpiece.
I believe a number of PC spectrum emulators could do that, by loading in wave files. |
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If you're restricted to 'game packs' then it's a bit arse, even if I do understand why they'd do it that way.
Classics like these really do shine on small screens, even on my Ngage (don't laugh) C64 games looked quite good and played very well considering. Stunt Car Racer and Boulderdash were fantastic, not to mention shmups like Enforcer and Turrican! \o/ |
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The only real attraction this app ever held pre-release was the included BASIC interface. Apple made them take it out so it couldn't be used to launch code that Apple hadn't personally approved, because they're getting to be a bit like NAZIS in that respect.
Therefore this app is just shite old games in a shiny new wrapper. |
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@Johnsters: most people probably played Stunt Car Racer on the 16bits, but the 8bits got conversions too:
C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC Pretty impressive considering the gulfs in hardware! /Absolutely loved SCR
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Long-time smart phone users welcome the iPhone to 2003!
Sort of. It falls short by quite a bit as an emulator if you can't write and run your own code. Retroid is right. The N-Gage was pretty fantastic for emulators, and they didn't require any hacking to install. It made the N-Gage's own games even more redundant though!
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Skorms-Boss
07/09/09 @ 14:47
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this is like finding a NES at a car boot sale, buying it and all the games for £30 quid, getting it home, tuning your t.v to find the signal, loading up duck hunt, playing for five minutes, feeling sad, then switching on your 360 revelling in it's HD glow
why the negativity? I'm being truthful! I still have my c64, and there’s no way I'd plug it in now, for one the tape deck doesn't work!
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Stompy: "The Wii has C64 games on its VC, doesn't it? How popular has that been?
My Wii isn't online, but I have heard little of any new C64 games coming to it recently from EG." Yup, there are a few. But they're overpriced (they're more expensive than they were on budget rerelease tapes in the 80s!) and, (as a Wii and C64 owner in the day) emulation is better on handhelds because the screens are smaller & the game styles are often quite close to what you'd expect from a handheld game. Playing a C64 game on a 42" LCD is 'nice' in one way but rubbish in lots of others. Playing the same game in crystal-sharp clarity on a small screen on a machine you can carry around with you is something else entirely :) |
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