Jason SnellJust posted on Six Colors: Emulate all the things, Apple
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/04/emulate-all-the-things-apple/
Chris White finds this vexing@jsnell Please give me an Apple IIe emulator, a C64 emulator, all the emulators. What’s funny is there’s been a ZX81 emulator on the app store for 4 years!
Craig Grannell@stoneymonster @jsnell Albeit (like the similar Jupiter emulator) no loading of external files. I hope the dev tries an update. Best of both worlds: a slew of legal software and the ability to load your own alternatives.
@craiggrannell @jsnell I think it does? There’s a tab in the software panel to open Files…
@stoneymonster @jsnell You’re right. He updated it a few weeks ago but I’d not noticed. (I have it on my iPad but not my iPhone.) Now I want someone to do something like this with the Speccy! (And for Manomio to resurrect their C64 app. I’ve strongly hinted to the dev and he’s mulling it over.)
@craiggrannell @jsnell It’s pretty exciting for retro computing if Apple would just budge a bit more…
@stoneymonster @jsnell Apple needs to get out of its own way. I know for a fact it’s so far at the very least rejected iDOS and MAME4iOS, both of which are great. Yet it’s allowed two stinking C64 emulators on to the App Store.
I need to see if I can find the list of emulator submissions someone was tracking. That had a whole bunch with current statuses – most of which were not great.
@craiggrannell @jsnell I was running iDOS from source for a while, it’s pretty great! Hope they get through sometime.
@stoneymonster @jsnell I still have it on my iPhone. Not sure when I downloaded it, but I’ve long taken to saving favourite apps locally with iMazing and then sideloading them on to new devices if they’ve since been removed from the App Store. Having a pile of my IPAs stretching back years also meant I could do this: https://www.stuff.tv/features/air-today-obsolete-tomorrow-but-my-ancient-ipad-still-has-value/
