Building Basilisk II for iOS (2021) • Hacker News Board

Re: Building Basilisk II for iOS (2021)

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Post by msephton » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:47 PM UTC

Maursault wrote: post #28

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You can install it using AltStore (though without my screen size and scaling modifications) it was hat floats your boat.

I'd much rather that Apple relaxed its position on emulators and old software. I think if someone figured out a way to compromise iOS and variants using nearly 40yo software run in an emulator, this would be an amazing feat, and ultimately only serve to make the host OS more secure, stable and resilient. I also think the copyright argument is stillborn because there is no market for 40yo software, so copyright holder…

Of course, me too. But right now you can install through AltStore or build it yourself, or wait forever for Apple to change.

Re: Building Basilisk II for iOS (2021)

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Post by msephton » Sun, Oct 09, 2022, 10:49 PM UTC

0x38B wrote: post #30

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I use a mix of apps but these days use mostly Deneba artWORKS, which is essentially an enhanced UltraPaint or a cutdown Canvas 3.x depending on your point of view. Their plugins can all be shared. I have another blog post about that. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/25/mixing-external-t...

Thanks for the link. I never used MacOS back in the day, but it looks beautiful running on the iPad. I used iPads from the first to the 2017 Pro model as my primary computers on the go, but the lack of a terminal and Unix tools (zsh, rsync, openssh) did them in for me. I miss the the Apple Pencil, which I found fantastic for drawing. Do you have any videos of you drawing on the iPad in artWORKS or UltraPaint? Would l…

I'll prepare some time-lapse video/animation of my next drawing. This might be of interest: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/07/30/playdate-1-bit-il...

Re: Building Basilisk II for iOS (2021)

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Post by ddingus » Mon, Oct 10, 2022, 5:05 AM UTC

midislack wrote: post #29

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Apple could supply those ROMS perhaps. They won't, but it seems a shame to ignore their own heritage. Now, from Apple's point of view? That's old news, and the future is more compelling. Totally get it. But it is stuff like this which keeps the iPad in the catagory of "toddlers toy" for me personally. It's really nice hardware too. I own one. Was given to me. It really did end up being used as an excellent toddler to…

When Steve came back to Apple he had ALL lab prototypes destroyed. ALL.

No surprise there.