Did you know you could play Commodore 64 games on your iPhone? at Geeker

C64 emulator on the iPhone. Image ruthlessly stolen from the c64iphone.com website.

Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t… but now you know!

The aptly-named Commodore 64 Emulator is yet again available in the App Store for the frugal sum of $4.99 (£2.99 for my fellow imperialists).

It was originally released back in June but unavailable due to violation of Apple’s rules on launching executable code (which is what an emulator does). Then in September it was actually approved by Apple — but only for a few days because of another security issue.

And now… it seems it’s back! Properly! 30% faster!

There’s bad news however: you can only play games downloaded from the App Store. No uploading your own abandonware ROMs I’m afraid. Maybe some enterprising fellow will manage to hack it…?

There’s a fun and detailed 9 minute video of the emulator in action after the break.

[via TouchArcade -- or visit the emulator's official site]

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