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Apple Approves Google Voice Apps and BASIC Interpreter in C64
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The app list is more of a recent items list, which is why it doesn't auto clear. The only reason to manually quit an app is if you want to ditch its state because the app is unresponsive or is running a background task you want stopped.
Might we soon see an Apple ][ or ][+ emulator soon?
That's right. Shape table graphics and Apple Basic. Apple should produce it sense it is their own stuff.
re: C64 Emulator w/ Basic
How am I supposed to write in basic without a semicolon?
I can't do the first line of code without the semicolon
How am I supposed to write in basic without a semicolon?
Code:
10 INPUT"What is your name"; A$
15 If A$="" Then 10
20 If A$="Steve" Then 50
30 If A$="Bill" Then 60
40 If A$="The Balmer" Then 70
50 PRINT"You are my hero!"
55 END
60 PRINT"You are a very smart person!!!"
65 END
70 PRINT"There are many pictures of you online with your tongue hanging out!!!"
80 Goto 70I can't do the first line of code without the semicolon
Maybe it's just 8-inch floppies.
And I still have my hole punch to enable double-sided usage.
What is Microsoft's cut for including Commodore BASIC in the C64 emulator?
Commodore BASIC - like Apple BASIC and almost all other 8-bit platforms except for Atari - was Microsoft BASIC renamed. The original agreement between Jack Tramiel and Bill Gates was that Microsoft would receive $0.01 in royalties per Commodore computer sold that included BASIC.
Considering how many times "Commodore" as an entity has gone bankrupt and switched ownership, I'm imagine that original agreement is void.
Commodore BASIC - like Apple BASIC and almost all other 8-bit platforms except for Atari - was Microsoft BASIC renamed. The original agreement between Jack Tramiel and Bill Gates was that Microsoft would receive $0.01 in royalties per Commodore computer sold that included BASIC.
Considering how many times "Commodore" as an entity has gone bankrupt and switched ownership, I'm imagine that original agreement is void.
I almost forgot about that app! But what a brilliant idea for all those of us that rely on an Apple+Google setup.
Dear Google, please hit - Resubmit -
I wonder if it will allow Microsoft Quickbasic. Quite a few programs are laying around that had to be abandoned when my Mac's RAM was upgraded from 5 MB to 20 MB, and the system expected 32-bit clean memory - or maybe it was just the updated OS that was the problem. Microsoft never updated QB from version 1. Then I never made the time to work on any of the C coding. I have a Tic Tac Toe that is harder to beat than the one from Android.
For those of us of a certain age, the expression "38911 basic bytes free" sends a shiver of nostalgia down the spine
must download this and do some POKE'ing 53280 and 53281 for the screen colours and SYS 64738 to do a soft reset if my memories are accurate
You and me both, I use to work for Commodore Magazine back in the day. I can remember spending my college years on a Commodore 64 and later Amiga doing my papers on them. If I recall, the monitor was all of 14 inches which I thought was big enough at the time.
Now, all that can be emulated on software running on a device that is light years ahead all in a unit small enough to hold in the hand. Pretty amazing looking back seeing how far things have come in 20 some years.
Ya right. Honestly, I don't think apple cares all that much about android. There have always been several manufactures and several mobile phone OS. Android is a great OS for people who want to build a mobile phone and aren't Apple. Anyone that wants to make a phone can use the Android OS, so why not? Android is getting all the mix and match hardware venders making phones, and Android has come a long way. It's a great OS for a lot of things. It's better than Motrola's proprietary junk I had used for sooo many years.
So really, think about it, who cares. Other vendors will exist, and they're all leaning towards an android solution because it's better than starting from scratch with their own proprietary OS or buying Palm for a few cool billion.
Apple has entered the smart phone business, basically establishing a successful app store for mobile apps, creating a viable tablet market which had always floundered, has the iPod touches going out there like mad. Apple is very successful in the smart phone, tablet, and mobile device markets. Android and Apple can both exist and everyone wins....
Once apple is out of the AT&T exclusive contract we'll really see what is real. Until then, it's hard to say what people really want. People really want a phone on their favorite carrier, not just on AT&T. And other vendors (like motrola) want to sell phones. If Apple wins majority of the smartphone business, that means that ALL the other vendors have failed to capitalize. So I don't see it as "apple vs android". I see it as Apple vs Motrola, HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, HP and Blackberry.
All those companies want to make money and have marketing budgets to sell their phones. Not everyone cares for a smart phone. Not everyone wants an iPhone. Some people buy things because it fits in their hand a specific way, and just want to make calls.... so Motrola or samsung should have something for them. Sure, it might run android, and might have the android marketplace on the phone... but they might never check that out at all.
I wonder what all the "Apple does no wrong" people that trumpeted about how good the Walled Garden was will say now that the walls are coming down around them.
Oh right, Apple does no wrong, so this is going to be a good thing! Keep on changing your stance people.
You guys keep on talking as though this is a religious thing. It's just a business decision. They most likely heard a lot from their game makers, so the links to other libraries, etc., became too restrictive. Yes, there are benefits to a "walled garden" approach. But they realized they had been too restrictive here.
I wonder what you'll say when or if Google ever decides to take on the phone networks, and demand that the manufacturers stay much closer to their OS, tossing out locked-in payware, etc.? No, they're "open" in some religious sense, so that's good, right?
You hit it on the head with your last sentence.
Without the former restrictions the approval process could have been more overwhelmed than it was. I suspect that less restrictions means more careful analysis of the code to prevent some exploits from sneaking through. The people doing the analysis are not green any longer, I'm sure the approval department learned a lot on the last two or three years and are more efficient than they started out.
Too bad Apple managed to make their version of multi-tasking even worse. I thought they had learned what bad multi-tasking could do back in the OS 9 days.
At least Android has real multi-tasking.
Understand that with OS 9 there was no "battery life" issues on par with today. You want a iDevice that needs to be kept near a wall outlet, then Android is your device. If you want to be able to go places and stay long, then Apple did it right.
Don't feel bad, a lot of people have a problem "getting it"... Apple designs for long battery life and that involves thinking different.
Great to see that the incredible "Paradroid" is available on the C64 app. For those who never played it, this was possibly the single best designed game ever for the 64.
Written by Andrew Braybrook, the development of the game was covered in a programmers diary in the early issues of Zzap! 64 which was the definitive magazine for 64 games.
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap3/para_birth01.html
Well worth a read
Written by Andrew Braybrook, the development of the game was covered in a programmers diary in the early issues of Zzap! 64 which was the definitive magazine for 64 games.
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap3/para_birth01.html
Well worth a read
I wonder what all the "Apple does no wrong" people that trumpeted about how good the Walled Garden was will say now that the walls are coming down around them.
Oh right, Apple does no wrong, so this is going to be a good thing! Keep on changing your stance people.
People who pay hundreds of pounds a year to have iPhone have some basic expectations. One of them is to have an appsstore that has good apps! Now if this means that a few hobbyists cannot have their apps on the app store so be it!
If you are one of the people who believes that you have to be able to do whatever you want with your phone, and there is nothing wrong with that either, then jailbreak your phone.
Idle curiosity...
Was the acceptance of the C64 app conditional on the removal of BASIC emulation despite Apple's relaxation of restrictions on emulators, or would the original app now be acceptable?
If you actually bothered to read the linked article, you wouldn't have asked this question.
The C64 app exists in the App Store because the BASIC interpreter was disabled.
Why else?
The C64 app exists in the App Store because the BASIC interpreter was disabled.
To increase shareholder value.AAPL has suddenly relaxed it's walled garden.
Wonder why?
Why else?
Why are people so paranoid? What if Google reads all my e-mail? They don't, but what if they did. I don't care. I use my gmail as my private account, and nothing secret is ever sent with that account. For work you should use your work e-mail, if you don't, it's not Google's fault you were born stupid.
it's on multiple carriers in most countries outside the US, where the majority of apple's customer base are. There is a world outside the USA and your flakey telecoms infrastucture.
How does that solve the basic problem? I have some old EA games on floppy. Assuming after 20 years they're still good, which is by no means guaranteed, my Mac has no drive that can read a 5.25 inch floppy nor can such a drive be purchased anywhere.Hehe, if it takes D64 files we're in luck.