Re: Apple II emulator for iPhone?

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 12, 3:58 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > D Finnigan wrote:
>
> >>limtc wrote:
>
> >>>Anyone willing to take out the challenge to port Apple II emulator (or
> >>>better yet, Apple IIGS emulator!) to iPhone or iPad?
>
> >>What to do about the ROM? Are we allowed to distribute those with
> >>emulators?
>
> > Perhaps if one could reverse-engineer SimSystem IIe, one could use that ROM?
> > Since it's part of a freely redistributable shareware package, and it's more
> > or less compatible at least at the level of a Laser 128...
>
> I don't think it's a copyright issue--I think it's a open-ended
> look-and-feel issue.

The "no interpreters" rule seems primarily there to enforce the app
store itself; since an interpreter with its own image loading system
effectively bypasses the app store. So things like Flash and Java fit
this criterea, the're out for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately,
this means no emulators unless you can write the thing in Javascript -
Apple do nothing to police so called "web apps"

Matt