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<p>I would have to agree with Jay. Just this last week, I decided
that I'd like to try my hand at making a couple simple apps for my
kids, and after much pulling of hair I don't have, I discovered
that to write apps for iOS you really have to have a mac
computer. To get xcode running on windows is a major, major
hassle. This scenario is such a non-starter for me. <br>
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<p>So given Apple's general attitude towards even running their OS
in virtual environments, a true-blue retro community around early
iPhone is almost guaranteed not to happen outside of folks
emulating old apps on existing Apple devices. <br>
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vintage synthesisers, is it? Yes, we can easily run a
software A500, but a real one (or an almost real one) is
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<div>Yeah, you’re right, its quite similar of course. And in
some cases there are even synthesis features to explore as
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I seriously doubt it actually. One of the things that has made
retro computers so interesting and viable to newcomers is that
they are an open platform. I don’t think that the retro- scene
would be nearly what it is today if it weren’t for the fact that
folks are still writing software for them - and in some cases, its
just truly bloody incredible .. case in point, this years 10-liner
BASIC program winner, which managed to implement a full
dungeon-crawler adventure game in just 10 lines of BASIC code:
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<div class="">(Disclaimer: I’m biased of course, since Oric was
my first ‘real’ computer)</div>
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<div class="">We will have to see whether this holds true for the
iPhone too - but I’ve got a drawer full of junk iDevices these
days, and I’m really not sure its going to be as appealing to go
back to them, in .. say, 10 years time .. considering the hoops
one has to jump through now just to get a dev environment set
up. I guess it’ll be somewhat feasible if there is the
requisite MacBook rig already set up with the dev tools in the
drawer as well, but even now its hard to get these old machines
properly set up to do ‘open’ development work.</div>
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<div class="">Anyway, lets hope we can return to this subject in a
few years time and see how things progressed ..<br class="">
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