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Apple | App Store Rejects C64 Emulator

Posted by Greg Weinstein | Filed under Gaming, Geek Corner

Manimo, the iphone app. develpoer, has been working on a fully licsensed Commodore 64 emulator that can play all its games and even run C64 Basic. However it seems as if the Apple App Store has rejected Manimo’s emulator. After you see this video, you will be just as angry as we are.

Check the next page for more info and some screen shots…

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A few features of the Emulator are :

Full speed, Commodore 64 emulator
SID sound emulation
Auto-save, to continue exactly where you left off
Realistic joystick and beautifully crafted C64 keyboard
Portrait and Landscape play
Vertical and Fullscreen gaming (auto rotate for iPod users)

When Manimo contacted apple about this, they seemed genuinely excited. Does not seem to be the case now. It was supposed to come with three different available game packs.

But Apple sent Manimo this rejectin email :

Thank you for submitting C64 1.0 to the App Store. We’ve reviewed C64 1.0 and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it violates the iPhone SDK Agreement; “3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).”

We hope that something can be worked out. This is really something special and it would be perfect on the iPhone.

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