The Ipad and the purpose of meaning

[Bloodfire]

I think the Ipad sucks, worthless. Others may disagree with my statement and frankly I don't give a shit, but recently someone has found purpose for the $500 paperweight.

It's an SNES emulator!

Check out the video demo here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlcig...ayer_embedded#!

The man also has a website you can check out for the App and such:
http://wherethewoozlewasnt.com/?page_id=12

All in all I think it's the start of something cool.

[Mjd]

DROID DOES this already...but very cool.

[Ramor]

I'm glad that the newest technology we get is immediately put towards reviving old technology especially in when talking about vidya.

Hopefully we'll see some half-decent N64/PS2/Dreamcast emulators in the coming years, there are lots of games from that era I'd love to replay but don't have the actual games anymore.

[Kaisha]

PSP wins the handheld emulator award hands down, and it has fucking buttons to boot too.

[dejet]

Ya droid does do this, but its nice to see the apple OS get it >.>

[Mjd]

Ya droid does do this, but its nice to see the apple OS get it >.>

We have to root (jailbreak) the droid to get this...oh wait no, we don't. :3

I'm sure those iPad users needed this.

[Bloodfire]

PSP wins the handheld emulator award hands down, and it has fucking buttons to boot too.

Hands down, I agree with this statement. At least though with the ipad you get a bigger screen.

I swear companies would make a small mint off emulators, but of course red tape curses us all.

Plus, the people who make emulators are generally not greedy bastards.

[Julian]

Have fun SSHing or whatever the fuck you have to do on the istuff now to get those roms on your iwhatever.

I like how he doesn't mention that part, lol.

Also, the iphone/touch already have SNES and other emulators, wouldn't those run on the ipad? lol

[BRP]

Is this a joke thread? A SNES emulator?

This a joke thread.

[Zilong]

Seriously, SNES emulation has been around for well over 10 years

But I guess that's a new thing for mac user...

[BRP]

Mac couldn't emulate SNES? I think it would be easier to name platforms which couldn't.

[Bloodfire]

Is this a joke thread? A SNES emulator?

This a joke thread.

It involves an Ipad, so yea I suppose this can be considered an joke thread.

I mean, maybe I am behind the times, but when was the first mac compatible emulator made?

[MisterBob]

I was using a mac compatible SNES emulator when I was like 12, so around 11 years ago?

[Vandole]

i dont have to ssh into my iphone for my snes, nes, and genesis emu...

>.>

[Julian]

i dont have to ssh into my iphone for my snes, nes, and genesis emu...

>.>

Are you connecting it to your computer, and dragging and dropping from folders?

If so, I'd like to know how for my itouch >_>

If not, you're doing more work than you should be doing for something so simple!

[dejet]

In other news, i might get a itouch after the next OS update for my droid to make it a hotspot >.> lol

[Shadowhusky]

Laptops and I'm sure most netbooks can do this.

[Ramor]

Laptops and I'm sure any pc built within the past 10 years can do this

ftfy

wru n64 emulator that works all the time with everything =(

[Shenrien]

In other news, the Ipad remains useless.

[Mayareira]

So much stupidity to burn.

SNES, NES, N64, MAME, MS DOS/Windows, Commodore (Amiga, c64 and others), Amstard, Atari, yada yada there are emulators for all these on Mac OS Classic and X, and they are just as old as their PC versions. You're probably stupid if you claim that emulation is "new" for Mac.

In fact, DOSBox and DOS applications work better under OS X than Win 7. I frequently play CM 96/97 and use OS X to emulate it.

The Purpose and Meaning of Ipad? It is very convenient for travel; has much higher battery life than whatever it competes with, does less stuff than a netbook but does it much faster and efficient (in before "my netbook is very fast and boots instantly u just don't know how to twk it n00b"), very portable and overall great for e-textbooks.