iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games

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• gashead76@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had completely forgotten about iPod games! I think there was one called Vortex that I liked a lot and there was also game version of the show LOST that I only played because I was a mega-fan of the show that was otherwise very frustrating.

  Also a great example of why DRM sucks.

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  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is taking me back to playing a barely controllable homebrew port of Doom on my jailbroken ipod video.

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    • gashead76@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh wow, I totally forgot about doing that as well! I think I spent the better part of a day getting it work, then “played” it for all of two or three minutes.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I remember playing it under Rockbox on some media player. I don’t even remember what it was, now, but it was a solid little device.

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  • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wanna say I had sonic 2 installed? And it was about as controllable as you’d imagine with the scrollwheel lol.

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    • gashead76@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I never tried Sonic on the iPod, but I bet it was ridiculous to control!

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s great. But how long until I can play Balatro on my iPod Classic?

  (I love that indie devs occasionally port their games to nonsensical or obsolete platforms)

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Portmaster is amazing.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    iPod mini was the first with the capacitive touch wheel with integrated buttons. It came out in 2004 and patents usually only last 20 years, so it should be fine to use the tech as long as you don’t use an apple logo, or any of the advancements they made in 2005 or later.

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• mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There was a Ms. Pac-Man port for these devices for a a while, and it was surprisingly good.

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