Re: iPhone Emulator

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Apr 15, 12:39 am, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 10:59 am, "bill.mart...@gmail.com" <bill.mart...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I just found this post while browsing --http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/09/commodore-64-emulator-for-the-iphone/
> > -- Now I just wonder, does this mean an Apple II or IIgs emulator for
> > the iPhone is not far behind?
>
> A lot depends on how things go as early players test the waters on
> Apple's stance on emulators on iPhone.  The SDK agreement does appear
> to forbid emulation outright, so we'll see.
>
> I've looked at porting Sweet16 over, but it would be an enormous task,
> since Sweet16 uses a lot of Carbon API, and that would all have to be
> converted to Cocoa Touch.
>
> Sheppy

I guess it comes down to SLA and whether or not you need that service
from Apple. It seems there are almost as many apps though now for Jail
Broken iPhones as there are for normal ones.  Hopefully Apple will
wake up on this one and start allowing real innovation on the platform
as it has great potential.