C64 no more

Apple says no-way to the C64 emulator on the iPhone. Here's why, and a little how to guide to doing what Apple doesn't want you to do...

Less than a day after we reported it, Manimio's Commodore 64 emulator has been taken down from the app store. Why? Because of a rather interesting hidden 'feature'.

Manomio plainly said up front about the only thing you couldn't do on their app was code in basic. That was in fact the reason that Apple said no to the app back in June of this year. In the words of Apple's own licensing "an Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means."

And that's just what you can easily do in the now banned emulator. And here's a quick primer...

This is what you get trying access Basic.

But, there's a neat run-around, which we can only imagine Manomio must have known about. Simply access the included games, and run any of the games (such as Arctic Shipwreck), as shown above.

And there it is in all its 8-bit shinyness. Check the next page for the rest of the steps.