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From: Clocky on 7 Sep 2009 11:11 Keith wrote: > http://www.macrumors.com/2009/09/06/previously-rejected-commodore-64-emulator-approved-and-available-on-app-store/ > > Long Live the 64! It's a crippled app that runs a few bundled games which hardly qualifies it as an emulator. That might change ofcourse. In the meantime I have only one thing to suggest to iPod/iPhone users... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIP1okixlfE
From: Sean Huxter on 7 Sep 2009 13:04 "Keith" <kilowattradio(a)use-reply-to.invalid> wrote in message news:h82bu0$9t2$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > http://www.macrumors.com/2009/09/06/previously-rejected-commodore-64-emulator-approved-and-available-on-app-store/ > > Long Live the 64! > > -- > Best Regards, Keith > http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/ BEWARE! Do NOT call this a C64 emulator. I jumped onto the ap store and bought this software faster than you can blink after reading the description. The first thing I was met with is the power-up screen which states that BASIC is not yet available (possibly in a future update), and that there are five games included, and more may come later. If I can't have access to the drives, .d64 files, and the real BASIC prompt of the C64, this is not an emulator, or at least not a complete one. It is a PARTIAL emulator which right now does nothing but play five pre-packed games, and none of which are terribly good. Certainly none of the classics are included. I'm not saying don't buy it. I'm just saying be better-educated than I was before you do. I mean this is a fantastic first step, but it is FAR short of what most people want or expect in a C64 emulator. I am, however, willing to wait for those features to appear. Sean.
From: Clocky on 7 Sep 2009 18:27 Sean Huxter wrote: > "Keith" <kilowattradio(a)use-reply-to.invalid> wrote in message > news:h82bu0$9t2$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> http://www.macrumors.com/2009/09/06/previously-rejected-commodore-64-emulator-approved-and-available-on-app-store/ >> >> Long Live the 64! >> >> -- >> Best Regards, Keith >> http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/ > > BEWARE! > > Do NOT call this a C64 emulator. I jumped onto the ap store and > bought this software faster than you can blink after reading the > description. > The first thing I was met with is the power-up screen which states > that BASIC is not yet available (possibly in a future update), and > that there are five games included, and more may come later. > > If I can't have access to the drives, .d64 files, and the real BASIC > prompt of the C64, this is not an emulator, or at least not a > complete one. > It is a PARTIAL emulator which right now does nothing but play five > pre-packed games, and none of which are terribly good. Certainly none > of the classics are included. > > I'm not saying don't buy it. I'm just saying be better-educated than > I was before you do. > > I mean this is a fantastic first step, but it is FAR short of what > most people want or expect in a C64 emulator. > > I am, however, willing to wait for those features to appear. > Since you have already paid for it, waiting and hoping is your only option isn't it? ;-)
From: Christian Brandt on 15 Sep 2009 10:35 Clocky schrieb: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIP1okixlfE Why get an excessively overpriced iPone and then jailbreak it, taking away the most significant difference with yet-another-50-bucks-mobile-phone? Get some half baked multimedia smart phone, they are not only a lot more free and cheaper than an iPone and still have more apps and features available. I went in big time and bought a �38 Samsung SGH-250 which can play MP3, has a slot for sd chips, can be used as a modem, has radio, can serve as a blue tooth headset (so I can actually skype on my computer with my phone as a headset), photos, modem for my netbook over bluetooth, movies, internet, millions of Java Apps and Games available - most even for free and without corporate cencorship. Ad the best things: a lot smaller than the iphone, can be controled with a single hand, doesn't need some nazi shop-software for getting music, instead relies on a full competitive open market of digital online music. Christian Brandt
From: Clocky on 15 Sep 2009 19:35
Christian Brandt wrote: > Clocky schrieb: > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIP1okixlfE > > Why get an excessively overpriced iPone and then jailbreak it, taking > away the most significant difference with > yet-another-50-bucks-mobile-phone? > > Get some half baked multimedia smart phone, they are not only a lot > more free and cheaper than an iPone and still have more apps and > features available. > > I went in big time and bought a �38 Samsung SGH-250 which can play > MP3, > has a slot for sd chips, can be used as a modem, has radio, can serve > as > a blue tooth headset (so I can actually skype on my computer with my > phone as a headset), photos, modem for my netbook over bluetooth, > movies, internet, millions of Java Apps and Games available - most > even > for free and without corporate cencorship. > > Ad the best things: a lot smaller than the iphone, can be controled > with a single hand, doesn't need some nazi shop-software for getting > music, instead relies on a full competitive open market of digital > online music. > > Christian Brandt No arguement from me, I'm quite happy being uncool too ;-) |