Deep GreenA little bit of “exciting” news from me:
Apple has informed that Deep Green will be removed from the App Store, if it isn’t updated and approved within 90 days…
Now, the current version is essentially built on the iPhoneOS 2 and 3 SDKs, more than a decade ago, and getting it to compile, let alone updating it to present iOS and App Store requirements will take forever and is not a good use of my time…
Guess that sets a deadline for version 2!
As a consequence, the feature set will be cut tight, as if it weren’t already, which still leaves me under heavy pressure.
The Deep Green 2 release is hereby aptly named “Reborn”.
One week till launch! 🥵
p x l s@deepgreen Can’t wait!
Marcus Burelius@deepgreen This is fantastic news. I have been a Deep Green user since day one and have been looking forward to this upgrade for a long time.
@markb Thanks, so have I! I’m looking forward to bringing incremental improvements instead of working on *everything* for a potential big bang (which it will not be as such).
Dean Wrecker@deepgreen this is really exciting news. I play Deep Green almost daily. Can’t wait to see this updated or a new version launched.
cgail@deepgreen can’t wait. I’ve been a fan since the Newton days
@deepgreen Sorry to hear that Apple has forced your hand time-wise, but glad to hear there is finally a release in sight for Deep Green 2!
Radu Ursache@deepgreen i mean... you had the last 7 years+ to update it… it’s basically abandonware at this point
@radu Yes, I’m not complaining. If anything, I’m surprised it took them so long. I have also worked on the update for several years. Looking forward to getting it out.
@deepgreen sorry, I may have misinterpreted it. hopefully I didn’t come up as harsh!
Mike VanDelinder@deepgreen whoa, is this the game I had on my Newton?
@mikethefifth The very same indeed 🤓
Konrad Kołakowski@deepgreen This is one of the worst and most hamful things that Apple is doing right now 😕
Apps that are perfectly fine, just not updated often enough (sometimes there's really no reason! especially with games) - are removed from the store because they're not built with the recent SDK/engine.
For most of them it's simply not worthy or straight impossible to do in feasible time 🤷♂️
Enrico 
@deepgreen luckily it’s downloaded on my iPhone since ever 💚 can’t wait to hop on version 2 ♟️