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Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by DennisL123 »

CharlesW wrote: post #90
johnwalkr wrote: post #80

This reminded me of the fact that excellent remasters of monkey island were released on the iPhone (and a few other paltforms) but were removed from the App Store after a few years. It’s a shame, they had great new artwork and sound/music but you could switch back and forth with the old art and it was cool to see the difference in each scene.

Sadly, the developer never updated them for compatibility with 64-bit-only versions of iOS (iOS 11+).

Happy to sign all the necessary NDAs and to port them to 64 bit, newer iOS versions and devices for free.

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by Cenk »

wharvle wrote: post #115
wronglebowski wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, which is why if this gets any traction I believe it'll be removed. Apple does not allow you to consume your own content on their platforms without a tax or at least a little roughing up.

VLC’s doing fine. It’s how our kids watch movies on road trips (download to iPad from Jellyfin’s web interface, play in VLC). Almost every book I’ve read in Books is from libgen. Download, open-in, and it’s on all my devices. Reading progress syncs and everything. The best electronic comic book experience I’ve seen is from a free app (optional one-off IAP that does nothing—I wish it had higher tiers, the author is do…

Which app do you use for comics?

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by saagarjha »

m463 wrote: post #105
saagarjha wrote: post #83

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If the code is what Apple used to build what they're distributing, then yes this is valid. (For this case at least, they have a tendency of doing this a lot and I suspect the change to bash was made just to address this specific complaint while missing every other place they strip out code.)

I tried to rebuild bash a while back on macos and couldn't do it because the source code was not available for rootless.h. I guess someones complaint finally got some action from apple. I remember doing macos kernel debugging (in the non-gpl code apple distributes) and it was pretty evident that the code they distribute like xnu is NOT the code that is in the OS. Stack traces had lots of functions apple keeps to itse…

Yes, XNU is missing a lot of stuff. But it's not (L)GPL, so it's not really required for them to provide that code.

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by wharvle »

Cenk wrote: post #122
wharvle wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VLC’s doing fine. It’s how our kids watch movies on road trips (download to iPad from Jellyfin’s web interface, play in VLC). Almost every book I’ve read in Books is from libgen. Download, open-in, and it’s on all my devices. Reading progress syncs and everything. The best electronic comic book experience I’ve seen is from a free app (optional one-off IAP that does nothing—I wish it had higher tiers, the author is do…

Which app do you use for comics?

Yeah, I was gonna plug it since it’s great, but didn’t have it on my phone (it’s iPad only, which makes sense) and forgot the name.

Looks like it’s Chunky:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chunky-comic-reader/id66356762...

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

#125

Post by smoldesu »

DennisL123 wrote: post #121
CharlesW wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, the developer never updated them for compatibility with 64-bit-only versions of iOS (iOS 11+).

Happy to sign all the necessary NDAs and to port them to 64 bit, newer iOS versions and devices for free.

If they got depreciated once, it's gonna happen again. Apple should invest in Microsoft-tier backwards compatibility if they want to avoid publishers abandoning their software.

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by jmah »

KMnO4 wrote: post #113
kmeisthax wrote: post #69

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Apple is very weird with how they interpret that part of their rules. iSH is allowed but not iDOS, etc.

iSH has compiled the binaries for arm64 so they actually run natively. When they do a syscall to malloc they are actually doing a syscall to malloc. iDOS is interpreting the bytecode and wrapping the unavailable things with its own implementation. When a DOS application runs malloc, the memory is assigned by iDOS instead. I’m not saying Apple is consistent, but your example doesn’t show that well.

Though it doesn't invalidate the gist of your saying, malloc is a user-space function not a syscall. (Its implementation will occasionally do a syscall, such as to sbrk or vmmap.)

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

smoldesu wrote: post #125
DennisL123 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happy to sign all the necessary NDAs and to port them to 64 bit, newer iOS versions and devices for free.

If they got depreciated once, it's gonna happen again. Apple should invest in Microsoft-tier backwards compatibility if they want to avoid publishers abandoning their software.

That was never Apple's thing. Apple always changes things as it pleases and expects the developers to suck it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by Dalewyn »

unixhero wrote: post #31
adrianN wrote: post #4

Is there a place where I can legally obtain images to run on the vm?

Steam gog And archive.org some of the games are abandonware and free.

For anyone who cares about legality, do not touch Internet Archive (archive.org) with a 10 foot pole. That place is one of the biggest collections of warez known to man today.

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by basique »

KMnO4 wrote: post #113
kmeisthax wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is very weird with how they interpret that part of their rules. iSH is allowed but not iDOS, etc.

iSH has compiled the binaries for arm64 so they actually run natively. When they do a syscall to malloc they are actually doing a syscall to malloc. iDOS is interpreting the bytecode and wrapping the unavailable things with its own implementation. When a DOS application runs malloc, the memory is assigned by iDOS instead. I’m not saying Apple is consistent, but your example doesn’t show that well.

Isn't iSH literally an x86 emulator?

Re: ScummVM on the App Store

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Post by smoldesu »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #127
smoldesu wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they got depreciated once, it's gonna happen again. Apple should invest in Microsoft-tier backwards compatibility if they want to avoid publishers abandoning their software.

That was never Apple's thing. Apple always changes things as it pleases and expects the developers to suck it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o

Maybe they should look into it then, asking developers if you can update their codebase on HN probably won't help users very much.
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