No Place for Commodore 64 Emulator App in Apple App Store
June 24th, 2009 | by Jhananthi Janakiraman |Not all iPhone apps developed by enthusiasts find a place in the Apple App Store, it seems. The latest rejection is for Manomio whose application emulates videogames available from the Commodore 64 home computer system.
It featured a virtual joystick and keyboard, portrait and landscape gaming and a fully-licensed C64 emulator code. Manomio developed the app along with Kiloo which owns the Commodore 64 license but still had to face the axe owing to some SDK clause.
The rejection letter received by Manomio cites its inability to post the app in the App Store as it violates the iPhone SDK agreement. It says that interpreted code can not be downloaded and used in an app except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreters.
This came as some what of a surprise to Manomio as the App Store already has many such apps including the CHIP-8 emulators, programmable calculators and Z-machine interpreter Frotz, to name a few.
