[Coco] Anyone Interested In CoCo Emulator On Android?

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Todd Wallace <dragonbytes at cox.net> wrote:
> Yes, and also more and more, if not most, of the newer android phones are ALSO locked down. (no sideloading apps allowed) and they require their own "jailbreak" to get around that.  Google is starting to release apple had it right to begin with.

Respectfully, I think that might be an exaggeration..  as far as I
know, only AT&T disables side loading (maybe something has changed?).
In any case, Google has nothing to do with it, it's the cell carrier
that makes that call.  If you do have a phone with sideloading
disabled, there are simple apps that will do it for you, no need to
"jailbreak", "root" or otherwise do anything strange.  One such app is
the "Sideload Wonder Machine", which seems to be considered pretty
good by reviewers.

Even with sideloading disabled, I believe you would still have full
access to the Android market which has none of the restrictions found
in the Apple store.  You can find a wealth of great apps there, some
of which have no iThing counterpart due to the limitations of the app
store... network analyzers, web and ftp servers, programming
environments like App Inventor, all kinds of neat stuff.

If anything, I'd say Apple is taking a cue from Google (or responding
to the FTC investigation) by loosening it's restrictions in recent
days.  I think that's a good thing for Apple users... for instance it
is now possible to have emulators on the iPhone.  There is a huge
selection of emulators in the Android market (Apple, C64, Acorn,
NES/SuperNES/gameboy, Playstation, Atari 2600, ZX spectrum, MSX, HP48,
probably more that I haven't tried yet), so I think its safe to say
they are a popular app category.  Now people with iPhones will be able
to enjoy these as well.


>
> - Todd Wallace
>
> On Sep 22, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>
>> On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Sean wrote:
>>
>>> What's Android's marketplace compared to Apples?  Apple won't allow
>>> emulators that allow the loading of separate files (presumably a
>>> doorway to jailbreaking exploits, or extra unwanted copyright
>>> infringement).
>>
>> That *was* the case, but Apple recently revised their developer agreement to allow interpreted code systems.  The C64 now has a BASIC interpreter enabled.  See this link:  http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/19/apple-approves-google-voice-apps-and-basic-interpreter-in-c64/
>>
>>> Or can you just run anything you want on an android without prior approval?
>>>
>>> I may be into newer tech than the CoCo crowd, but I really hate
>>> phones, so I'm behind on all that stuff!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Brad Grier <bradgrier at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi Torsten,
>>>>
>>>> Start saving...it's working on my HTC Incredible. There's a lot to do yet -
>>>> mostly ui for preferences. There's no sound and no real interface to load
>>>> roms/bins yet but it's getting there. I've been playing "Dang It!" on it for
>>>> the last twenty minutes.
>>>>
>>>> Here are a few images:
>>>>
>>>> http://members.cox.net/javacoco/images/P1020011.jpg
>>>> http://members.cox.net/javacoco/images/P1020020.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Do you think anyone would spend $1.99 on the Android marketplace to run a
>>>> CoCo on their phone?
>>>>
>>>> :D
>>>>
>>>> Brad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/18/2010 6:17 AM, Torsten Dittel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Brad Grier schrieb:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to see Mocha running on my HTC Incredible. Since Android apps
>>>>>> are written in Java (albeit with a different UI library), I don't
>>>>>> think it would be too difficult. Anyone else with an Android device
>>>>>> and a Color Computer fetish? I'm excited about dusting off the Mocha
>>>>>> code...it's been a while.
>>>>>
>>>>> Go for it! Would be definitely a reason for me to buy an Adroid
>>>>> device... ;-)
>>>>>
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