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Monday, September 07, 2009
Commodore 64 on iPhone
Finally the iPhone is useful (just kidding) :)!
Apple approves officially-licensed Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone
Interestingly, to get the right feel in especially games, the emulator must be equally slow as the C64, meaning emulating a 1 MHz 6510 (pretty much the same as the very popular 6502, that has a strange and impractical instruction set with hardly any registers), and it needs to emulate the (at the time) rather advanced SID audio chip.
Irrelevant nostalgia: I for instance used the C64 SID to emulate com radio tone squelch, both for serious uses (testing out com radios in a TV/radio shop) and for fun (people running to answer the com radio, but there’s no one on the other side; rinse and repeat; you get the picture).
