Comments on: French Developer DotEmu to Bring Retro Titles to iPhone

By: bud

bud — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:29:18 +0000

You say that this company specializes in porting old games via emulation. Since Apple doesn't allow emulation on the iPhone, what is the company doing about it?

I also agree with MooCoo. Unfairly locked out? Bah. Support Apple and buy a Mac.

By: Cahya

Cahya — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:42:40 +0000

That's look good.

By: DotEmu to develop classic games for iPhone | iPhone 3G Game News, Games for Mac from Apple

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:04:12 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:19:50 +0000

I was hoping for more titles in the article. A friend of mine had an old arcade style machine that he gutted and put a monitor and tower inside. He rigged the interface to allow the gaming controls to run the game and had a selection of 75 or so title in one old stand up box, including things like Missile Command, Gyrus, Galaga, Centipede, Frogger, Mr. & Ms. Pac-Man, Food Fight, etc. He put it on wheels and could take it to parties. I'm excited to see what titles DotEmu comes out with.

By: MooCow

MooCow — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:13:18 +0000

How unfairly locked out of the game could indie developers be? A basic Mac mini is only $599. The iPhone dev kit is also only $99 per year.

I'm pretty sure the dev kit for consoles aren't free either, probably requiring more expensive hardware and software, too.

By: arn

arn — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:52:41 +0000

I love the look of that platformer. What's nice of these retro ports is that you know that these are full titles. Not just one-off titles that have very little depth to them. Like Vay, there's a lot of gameplay value.

For a platformer like this though, I hope they can figure out a good control system.