About two months back, Manomio had submitted Commodore 64 emulator for approval to Apple for its App Store. The Commodore 64 Emulator will allow playing vintage Commodore 64 titles on iPhone or iPod Touch in an emulated manner. According to TouchArcade, Apple rejected Manomio's C64 app earlier even though Manomio had the emulator fully licensed and legal.
Apple has approved a C64 app version that has Commodore BASIC 2.0 interpreter disabled. Compared to that, the earlier version of C64, which was rejected, had BASIC running in it. As per the clause in iPhone OS 2.0 SDK, Apple won't allow the apps that come with their own executable runtimes. With this restriction, Apple basically intends to keep its Cocoa Touch platform intact by not letting any sub-platform such as Flash, Java or Silverlight to take a center-stage.
This will give a hint to other developers who wish to bring vintage games via some legal emulator to the iPhone platform. The C64 emulator, costing $4.99, brings five games - Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck and Jack Attack.
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