![]() ![]() The ZX Spectrum family has been further filled out with another enhanced clone from Scorpion, Ltd. This month, the Personal IRIS 4D family have been promoted to working. Moving on to other computers, Silicon Graphics workstation support is still making progress. There are also a few Apple III fixes in there. Support for early CD-ROM drives has been improved, allowing early multimedia software for the Apple II and Macintosh to run. For earlier Macintosh computers, there are two new floppy disk software lists: one for original dumps and one containing low-impact cracks. Several low-cost Macintosh computers with 68040 CPUs are now supported, and there are fixes for some issues with sound playback. I can have equal, if not MORE fun on an original Game Boy than anyone can on the latest Xbox etc you don't need to have everything acted out, visiually and audibly, it's GOOD to use your brain (the modern world has largely forgotten this fact, sometimes, it feels.Yes, it’s time for another release: MAME 0.258! It’s been another month of exciting Apple updates. This is also why Nintendo were (are?) so ridiculously successful - it's not ABOUT how high res and fluid the graphics are, it's about the gameplay. When you had only your imagination in which to create the worlds and imagine these 8 bit pixels were STUPENDOUS levels, you come to realise that the human imagination is a FAR better machine for creating something YOU can dream up, than some sameish, overly-serious taking-itself-wayyyy-too-seriously rendering of something that is SO polished and fluid that your eyes don't know where to look first, and the irony of all that realism is that you become distracted from the whole point of the game - TACTICS. The "awesome hardware" (ARM based, for those uninformed) needs a little reminder of its heritage from time to time, IE, Cambridge UK (my home city, YAY!), Acorn Research Machines and how utterly simple and non-distracting older hardware and games were. Unfortunately we have, more or less, allowed Apple to dictate what we can and can not install on our pocket computers. Telling me I can't install software without permission on a desktop OS would never fly. I have to say I hate what freedoms have been taken from users, in general, with the smartphone. It has nothing to do with legal matters (outside of maybe being in good standing with game developers). These things just don't go with Apple's philosophy and therefor Apple disallows them. See my comment about pornographic material as well. Torrent software isn't by nature, illegal. They also disallow torrent software for the same reason. An emulator (of hardware not using copyrighted software snippets) is never illegal and Apple is not responsible for what is done with said software. So it's perfectly reasonable to expect people to do legal things with an emulator (if that's the argument we are to use about a web browser). There are a handful of examples of publicly distributed works (and there are even folks that work on new NES games TODAY, as an example - maybe MAME too, in less familiar). Assuming that "most roms people will download are illegal" is just silly. So no emulator is needed.)Ĭlick to expand.It has been discussed that there are legal roms out there. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a few ROMs in the public domain, but nobody cares about them (besides, if the ROM is in the public domain, there's probably source code for the game in the public domain too, from which you can probably build a native executable with much better performance. Anyone with a tiny bit of experience can throw together their own website.Īpple can't reasonably be expected to know what's legal from what isn't, but they know that it's perfectly reasonable to expect you to go and do legal things with the web browser. Uploading a video or picture is trivial - Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and YouTube are full of videos and pictures which people have uploaded. The difference with Safari is there's a huge number of movies and photos which you can legally access on the internet. With perhaps a few rare exceptions, you can't legally get them.Īpple knows that anyone downloading the app can only get the ROMs illegally, so they block it. Where are you going to get the ROMs from legally? The answer is no where. In the case of the App Store, that's Apple. No, the person hosting the server is responsible for it. ![]()
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