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2010-09-17 20:23

Scout

Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 1570

Oh noes! The iPhone C64 app from Manomio uses cracked games

Well...duh! Of course Manomio doesn't mention (due to Steve's evil iTunes App Store policy) it's but not quite unexpected.
If you look at the intro screen of Bozo's Night Out (which comes free with the app) you can clearly read something like 'Cracked by The Phantoms 1984'.
Well, okay... you could shrug and walk along. But wait, there's a bit more and that's the fun part :)

Today (September 17th, 2010) Manomio came with an update of the C64 app which adds a C64 Basic Emulator 'for that nostalgic feeling'.
10 PRINT"HELLO" works but also LOAD, LIST etc.

If you load the game Heatseeker (also for free) from the game shelf and run it just go back to the game shelf and choose the BASIC emulator.
Do not resume the previous game (you'll be asked for that), reset the game from the Extra menu and do a dir (F7).

You'll see this:

WOW...as in Warriors Of The Wasteland?

Let's load it and run it:

LOL! The game with a fully working crack intro in front :D
On the iPhone.

I've checked the rest of the free games this way and saw cracks (with intro's) from Remember, The Force, Beastie Boys and some more.

You can buy games like Cybernoid I&II, International Karate, Snare... well, the *bigger* titles for 1,59 euro's in their store.
I wonder which cracks they use for that.
That bothers me a bit btw. On the other hand, history repeating: buying warez 'for that nostalgic feeling' :-)

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2010-09-21 08:54

Scout

Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 1570

Quoting DeeKay

Okay, so the only thing that matters to me is this: Can i copy my own .d64s over and run them on the emulator?

No, but you already knew that before you started your biased rant ;-)

2010-09-21 11:04

Isildur

Registered: Sep 2006
Posts: 275

Can i run demos with fastloaders, open borders etc.?

2010-09-21 11:47

MagerValp

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1066

Quoting DeeKay

Mager: I did not know you were involved in DTV development?

Credits are in the scroller on the title screen.

Maybe we should add the DTV as a CSDB release with proper credits... :)

Main coding was by Macbeth and dW, with additional game fixing by Burning Horizon and me. Oh, and jcompton did the documentation. I also did a few misc bits, like the directory listing, the joystick keyboard for basic, and the filesystem compression.

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