Apple was ‘For’ the Commodore-64 App before they were ‘Against’ it
Posted on 08 September 2009, at 7:00 pm, by Michael Anderson
It seemed to be too good to be true, that Apple was allowing the C64 emulator that had been hanging in limbo for so long. And apparently it was … the app was pulled from the App store after a short stay because the user could enable the BASIC program to run, which was the original reason the App was rejected!
Here is the original rationale for rejection:
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).”
In a message on the developer’s web site:
Unfortunately, Apple has pulled the C64 Application from their store as it was discovered by some users that it was possible to enable the Basic program through the interface. We have now fixed the issue and our application has been re-submitted for approval by Apple.
We thank you all for your support and fingers crossed we hope to launch again over the next few days.
Source: The iPhone Blog via Engadget (Image also courtesy of Engadget)
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Ant Harper Says:
September 9th, 2009 at 3:58 amApple was ‘For’ the Commodore-64 App before they were ‘Against’ it …: Apple was ‘For’ .. http://bit.ly/qQfY7
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September 9th, 2009 at 6:06 am
10 POKE 808,234
20 FOR COUNT=1 TO 10
30 PRINT “HELLO GEARDIARY.COM!”
40 NEXT COUNT
50 PRINT “GOODBYE!”
60 SYS64738
Bad BASIC! Bad!
Of course, maybe there’s a risk of someone pulling up an old COMPUTE! or RUN magazine and entering endless pages of program code columns of machine language code like 0CF1:F1 70 2F F3 78 2F FF FC C1 code that could do dastardly things…wow, I was doing dumb things like that before most graduate students were even born!
I understand the legal precedent and such, but coming from an 8-bit emulator…well it sounds silly from a practicality standpoint.
September 9th, 2009 at 7:09 am
I completely agree with you breley … but seriously, *what* was Manomio thinking? They had the app rejected for this, then upon resubmit barely tweaked it so it wasn’t obviously accessible …
Personally I think that having a basic BASIC programming language is a great way for kids to learn and fiddle around … I have the free-release VB.net on my kids’ computer to help them work on those skills.