Licensed C64 Emulator Rejected From App Store

Miasik.Net writes "A fully licensed Commodore 64 iPhone emulator has been rejected from the App Store. The excuse Apple used is a clause in the SDK agreement which doesn't allow for applications that run executable code. It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."

Backwards, I hope

[greyhueofdoubt]

An iPhone emulator that runs on a Commodore 64? Color me surprised!

Hopefully this means that I can upgrade my old boxes by emulating dual core processors on them. Links, anyone? ;)

-b

GET THE FACTS: Not rejected from the App Store

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple is about quality first and they are just holding back the release date until the iPhone's cassette tape inferface is ready.

Way to go, Apple.

[amaupin]

Reject the one app that would have guaranteed me purchasing an iPhone.

Re:The hell are they thinking?

[spacefiddle]

Aha, there's the rub. Why did you AC your comment...? That actually made sense. That *is* allowed here, you know.

Re:Right idea, wrong reason

[ColdWetDog]

1) App is arbitrarily rejected for some reason.
2) Angry story on Slashdot about rejection.
3) App is resubmitted and accepted with some minor change

So, you're saying that whining on Slashdot is actually useful?

The mind boggles, it does.

Re:Editorialise much ?

[Anonymous Coward]

BASIC isn't code. It's not even script by today's standards.

Re:Editorialise much ?

[nacturation]

And what exactly is so important about the app store that it cannot be bypassed?

Profit.

Re:Right idea, wrong reason

[unfunk]

oh yes, I can just imagine how a Commodore BASIC v2 attack on the iPhone would work...

10 IF iphoneosver=2.x OR 1.x THEN H4X0R ELSE GOTO 20
20 PRINT "pls wait a couple of weeks kthxbai"
30 END

(Apologies for not getting BASIC right - I'm a muso, not a programmer)

Re:Editorialise much ?

[mustafap]

>I'm still giggling over the idea of the next hacktool being written in BASIC, tho.

Me too. I'm waiting for the obligatory "The 1980s called and they want their language back" jokes. :o)

Re:Editorialise much ?

[DeBaas]

Me too. I'm waiting for the obligatory "The 1980s called and they want their language back" jokes. :o)

Even the 1980's don't want that language back