Comments on: Call for iPhone Port: Zany Golf http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/30/call-for-iphone-port-zany-golf/ ... keeping in touch with the latest in iPhone gaming Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:12:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: blakespot http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/30/call-for-iphone-port-zany-golf/#comment-173 blakespot Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:46:26 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=91#comment-173 Exact port is unlikely, but I would love it. All we need is an Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIgs, or Sega Genesis emulator on the iPhone. ST and Genesis are the most likely as, I know from being in the GP2X scene, that there's is native ARM asm emulation code for the Motorola 68000. So that can't be far off. Exact port is unlikely, but I would love it.

All we need is an Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIgs, or Sega Genesis emulator on the iPhone. ST and Genesis are the most likely as, I know from being in the GP2X scene, that there's is native ARM asm emulation code for the Motorola 68000. So that can't be far off.

]]> By: arn http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/30/call-for-iphone-port-zany-golf/#comment-172 arn Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:14:27 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=91#comment-172 I agree an exact port is going to be tough... but Mini-Golf is a very iPhone-compatible concept (touch-drag-shoot). someone will have to do it. btw, instead of using the mouse to control the ball in the magic-carpet level, you could use the accelerometer to jiggle the ball around. arn I agree an exact port is going to be tough… but Mini-Golf is a very iPhone-compatible concept (touch-drag-shoot). someone will have to do it.

btw, instead of using the mouse to control the ball in the magic-carpet level, you could use the accelerometer to jiggle the ball around.

arn

]]> By: ZodTTD http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/30/call-for-iphone-port-zany-golf/#comment-168 ZodTTD Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:33:23 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=91#comment-168 This is a great game! As you said it would probably be a very tough port as games back then did a lot of trickery to run on such early platforms, beyond that of even using assembly. Just speculation but there's probably a lot of code specific to the Apple IIgs. What about a dos4iphone? ;) Not sure but Zany Golf may be one of the few games to run decently enough on such a port of DOSBox. DOSBox is on my list of things to get done, and I want to write an ARM dynarec (dynamic recompiler for CPU emulation) for it. The DOSBox team wanted me to do this quite a while back (before the iPhone) but it kept getting delayed. This is a great game! As you said it would probably be a very tough port as games back then did a lot of trickery to run on such early platforms, beyond that of even using assembly. Just speculation but there's probably a lot of code specific to the Apple IIgs.

What about a dos4iphone? ;)
Not sure but Zany Golf may be one of the few games to run decently enough on such a port of DOSBox. DOSBox is on my list of things to get done, and I want to write an ARM dynarec (dynamic recompiler for CPU emulation) for it. The DOSBox team wanted me to do this quite a while back (before the iPhone) but it kept getting delayed.

]]> By: blakespot http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/30/call-for-iphone-port-zany-golf/#comment-163 blakespot Sat, 31 May 2008 17:59:05 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=91#comment-163 Thinking about it, I suppose since the IIgs version was almost certainly done in assembly language, an iPhone port would be a complete rewrite in C / Objective C. Does not seem likely, in truth. :-\ Thinking about it, I suppose since the IIgs version was almost certainly done in assembly language, an iPhone port would be a complete rewrite in C / Objective C. Does not seem likely, in truth. :-\

]]> By: blakespot http://toucharcade.com/2008/05/30/call-for-iphone-port-zany-golf/#comment-162 blakespot Sat, 31 May 2008 17:57:10 +0000 http://toucharcade.com/?p=91#comment-162 So I've been playing a lot of Zany Golf on KEGS-GS (Apple IIgs emulator) and through the Genesis version on my GP2X. I gotta say, the Genesis version sucks due to lack of mouse control. The IIgs original has the best music. Though the Amiga version has a little more "pep." I am assuming the ST version has "pep" but the worst music of all. Good times, though. And yea, I do have a real IIgs and Zany Golf on disk. (My purchased original!) But...I've not powered it up in a couple weeks. :-\ So I've been playing a lot of Zany Golf on KEGS-GS (Apple IIgs emulator) and through the Genesis version on my GP2X. I gotta say, the Genesis version sucks due to lack of mouse control. The IIgs original has the best music. Though the Amiga version has a little more "pep." I am assuming the ST version has "pep" but the worst music of all.

Good times, though. And yea, I do have a real IIgs and Zany Golf on disk. (My purchased original!) But…I've not powered it up in a couple weeks. :-\

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