iMAME pulled from the Apple App Store

By George Wong on 12/23/2011 14:16 PDT

iMAME It only took a couple of days, but it looks like the iMAME app which allowed gamers to play classic games on their iOS devices has finally been pulled out from the Apple App Store. Can’t say we didn’t see this coming, since Apple forbids apps on its store from running emulated code. However, it’s safe to say that this isn’t going to be the last we’ve seen of the app. Various emulator apps have managed to pop up on the App Store in the past (and were consequently thrown out after a enjoying a short while of success) and you can be sure that more variations will surface in the future. So for those of you that missed out on iMAME this time around, keep your eyes peeled for another emulator in the future.

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iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, which is an emulator program that can emulate the hardware of arcade systems on modern computers. MAME was first released by Nicolas Salmoria in 1997 and has grown to become a legend as thousands of games are supported. Interestingly, MAME wasn't created to play games: it was created to to accurately emulate the behavior of a (defunct) hardware. Gaming is considered to be a "bonus".

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