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aiia...@gmail.com

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Sep 8, 2012, 3:23:36 PM9/8/12
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http://www.zophar.net/macintosh/apple2/appleiigo.html

I have a cheap phone, I have been able to get the gameboy emulator running on it.

I would like to get appleiigo to run.

My phone is sanyo incognito. It requires a JAD file.

Can anyone show me how to generate a JAD from a JAR? I see many sites, utilities out there that show how, but I am unable to get them to work


Rich

BLuRry

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Sep 8, 2012, 11:21:05 PM9/8/12
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If your phone only supports midlets then it cannot support a full apple emulator feasibly. A swing application cannot be easily converted to a jad style app because the phone will not have the full java run time to support it.

aiia...@gmail.com

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Sep 9, 2012, 1:14:51 PM9/9/12
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On Saturday, September 8, 2012 8:21:05 PM UTC-7, BLuRry wrote:
> If your phone only supports midlets then it cannot support a full apple emulator feasibly. A swing application cannot be easily converted to a jad style app because the phone will not have the full java run time to support it.

I understand this, but a GameBoy emulator runs on it, with about 3/4 speed and no sound. Would be neat to see apple II on it.


Rich

BLuRry

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Sep 9, 2012, 8:37:14 PM9/9/12
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It would be neat but the game boy display is far simpler. I don't see how you could get an 80 column display to fit on a itty bitty screen. ;)

Wholly Mindless

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Sep 10, 2012, 2:23:21 PM9/10/12
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BLuRry wrote:
> It would be neat but the game boy display is far simpler. I don't see how
> you could get an 80 column display to fit on a itty bitty screen. ;)
>

Real apples only have 40 col and no lower case.

But, I have to agree that java midlets never really worked well enough to do
real work in them. it's why android went another direction to use java on
phones.

Anyone consider a Jace port to midlet or Android?

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Wholly

aiia...@gmail.com

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Sep 10, 2012, 4:25:44 PM9/10/12
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On Monday, September 10, 2012 11:23:21 AM UTC-7, Wholly Mindless wrote:
> Anyone consider a Jace port to midlet or Android?

I would use JACE on my android. I use my cheap phone for calls, android for computer.

Rich

aiia...@gmail.com

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Sep 10, 2012, 10:26:49 PM9/10/12
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On Saturday, September 8, 2012 12:23:36 PM UTC-7, (unknown) wrote:
> http://www.zophar.net/macintosh/apple2/appleiigo.html

I got appleiigo to run on my phone! Robotron 2084 is about %80 of real speed.

have to hold the shift key on the keyboard... pretty neat!

Rich

BLuRry

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Sep 10, 2012, 10:33:10 PM9/10/12
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I would totally port Jace, but there is already a great Apple // emulator (cAndy Apple) for Android that seems to work pretty well. I would have to consider what a Jace port could offer beyond the current state of the art. Unless the idea was to provide the mouse and cheat features. It might be feasible without a lot of rework, but I haven't had the chance to observe the behavior of multithreaded applications on a droid yet -- it's on my to-do list.

-B

aiia...@gmail.com

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Sep 14, 2012, 4:22:53 PM9/14/12
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On Sunday, September 9, 2012 5:37:14 PM UTC-7, BLuRry wrote:
> It would be neat but the game boy display is far simpler. I don't see how you could get an 80 column display to fit on a itty bitty screen. ;)

Hi-res works good, you can read text printed on it. Only text screen I looked at was 40 column Apple //e at startup. (it looked like an e, but the docs say it is IIc ROM default).

Not practical for many uses on my phone, but I can show my friends my hobby computer projects from my phone.

Rich

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