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Posted By
Chicken
on 2009-09-15
15:40:00
 |  Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
indi,
from what I read in your blog it seems to be a nice gadget to develop stuff for and obviously, there is a huge market for apps. (And even if many apps are mediocre at best or the 147336th in line to do the same thing some are REALY nice and make good use of the touch screen etc.)
From my point of view it's just sad that apple limits the capabilities so much. The C64 emulator is a good example... The user interface (joystick etc) looks really good but with 5 not so cool games it's really wasting its potential.
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Posted By
indi
on 2009-09-15
12:41:30
| Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
I have to say, I got an iPhone to try it. I was fed up carrying a phone, and and iPod so this seemed logical. I was totally taken by surprise with the apps. Some of them are fab! I've got a great eBook reader which gives me 20,000 free (older) books and its actually "nice" to use.. Theres also a few others (like SIDPlay) that makes it a really nice device to use.
Also... My "old" phone snapped in 2 (dont get me started!), so I needed a new phone as well..
Just my 2p 
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2009-09-12
11:37:37
| Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
I didn't buy it. It was a christmas gift from my agency at that time.
Of course I know about rockbox but unfortunately, my iPod (classic, video) is not supported (due to Apple's decision to protect the code in later generation iPods).
I don't really agree with "not complaining". Even if there are altenatives, those aren't always alternatives for me (why should I buy another mp3-player?). Plus, if you don't "complain" you let companies get away with too much crap (or they might not even realize that it is crap what they are doing).
Also Apple is far from documenting everything, e.g. When installing iTunes you are not even asked if you want to have "MobileMe" or not.
Btw, I don't hate Apple or their products. I'm just a critical customer 
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Posted By
MagerValp
on 2009-09-12
11:15:02
| Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
Then why don't you buy a rockbox capable mp3 player instead? There's no point in buying stuff and then complaining about documented and known limitations.
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2009-09-11
15:49:58
| Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
Gaia...
That's exactly my point. But Apple has fanboys en masse and Microsoft doesn't. My iPod is crippled by Apples restrictions and no other company would get away with such crap. (Remember how everybody was dissing SONY for using ATRAC etc? What Apple does is 100 times worse but most Apple users seem to be fine with it.)
Well, it's really no use spending time on this because Apple desciples will always buy anything apple. And I would buy a new plus/4 even if I know about the 2 colors in 8x8 pixels restrictions ;)
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2009-09-11
15:39:37
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Sigh...
/flame on
I wonder how everyone is spitting on Microsoft when Apple's practices are at least equally as scandalous... (well, to me anyway ) But I guess that is part of the marketing stunt they're pulling.
/flame off
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Posted By
MagerValp
on 2009-09-11
07:43:26
| Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
Apple doesn't forbid emulators per se, they forbid emulators/virtual machines/scripting languages that allow the user to run arbitrary programs. While you can theoretically execute any piece of 6502 code in a .sid, the only output is sound (or silence for that matter). But if someone demonstrates how you can run stuff in the sidplayer, I'm sure Apple will pull that one too. So don't
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Posted By
Chicken
on 2009-09-08
19:07:09
| Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
I wondered about that (SIDplayer=emulator), too
And as of today/yesterday, APPLE has removed the C64 emulator again. Because with some trickery you could execute BASIC programs and as we all know BASIC is the PRIME EVIL Well, maybe second to APPLE's policies.
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Posted By
indi
on 2009-09-08
15:37:55
| Re: Sid Play on the iPhone...
Yeah. I wondered that too. Actually, they did allow it, just not to be able to download games (other scripts) from external sites, No idea about this one. Perhaps they don't realise.... or perhaps its downloading MP3's....
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Posted By
Gaia
on 2009-09-08
15:08:54
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What? Didn't you listen to MP3's from real SID recordings? Bah...
On a related note: I recently saw how people found Apple being stupid not allowing a C= emulator to run on the iPhone but they did allow a SID player which is in fact an almost complete emulator in itself...
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Posted By
indi
on 2009-09-08
12:39:29
| Sid Play on the iPhone...
I'm so happy.... I could cry...
http://iphone.vanille.de/sidplayer/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShFgu8mTAyc
AWESOME! Finally listening to some real music while I work again....
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