Old llamasoft iOS apps - GONE!

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Old llamasoft iOS apps - GONE!

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Hi guys.

I want to share a little bit of my pain with you:

Until recently i was the proud owner of 2 iOS devices crammed full with almost every IOS llamasoft game for the system - except deflex which i lost when our old Imac was stolen a couple of years ago :-(
An old 1G Ipad and an Iphone4.
When my son recently crashed his own iPhone, i lent him my Iphone 4 until he got a new one of his own.
And now he has deleted all of my Llamasoft games that was on the phone! To make space for, wait for it... subway surfers!
He didn't know better and i have forgiven him, but now the games are gone. I have no backup of the phone (as it hasn't been used as a phone for years) and i am really sad.
I have tried to transfer some of the games from my iPad 1G to my Iphone4 but not all of them are Iphone compatible. Only Minotaur rescue, caverns of minos and goatup2 seem to be transferable.
But what about the rest?
Are there anyone out there who maybe could pull their own Llamasoft apps from their old phones/devices and then share them with me in a dropbox or something? Maybe even you Jeff ;-)
It seem like it is pretty easy once you get the files out of the device - its simply a matter of copying them to the new device. I have bought some software for that :-)
Please!

Anyone!

Thanx :-)

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TWO mistakes here ...

1. you have something "so important" you give it to your son "that crashed his own iPhone".

2. seeing '1' and HOW SO IMPORTANT that phone was you DID NO TELL HIM 2001 TIMES ABOUT *DO NOT TOUCH THOSE GAMES* ????

Said that remember that "the fantastic Apple" asks developers something like $100 A YEAR just to keep their stuff on the stores and also "consistently breaking it all" after any iOS/hw upgrade or such.

At this point I'd tie up your son to a subway train and let him surf for a week until he has enough of subway surfing :lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ( kidding of course .. I'd do worse ! :twisted: ) ...
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WladimZappo wrote:Hi guys.

I want to share a little bit of my pain with you:
Ah shit dude, I'd love to help but I share your pain.

I had an iPhone 5 deliberately kept to old OS just to keep running all the Minotaur Project games, but a diabolical battery swelling incident trashed the machine. All gone... :(
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I can't give them to you for 2 reason ...

One .. "worse" than what you done .. despite having various backups of stuff NOT sure in what stages ( because I can't compile them any more ) the machine that was literally holding it all .. blew up .. literally ... the PSU ..

The disk should be okeish but I don't know "in what stage of compilation/etc." I did try once to put it back into a Lion something machine could not make stuff work.

SOME PEOPLE should (?) be working on "restoring" some stuff but it's been a while I haven't heard anything from them, not sure even they can do something about.

BEST WAY is to continue to "support" the Minotaur Arcade project and see your games re-appear in a better form on newer plattforms.

Well the "second" reason is that I don't even know exactly what we still have about those games :(
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Well Giles -

I bought an app for my mac that enabled me to extract the iPhone compatible ios llamasoft apps, and transfer them to my old iPhone. It was super-simple and only cost me the payment for the app. which was a bit expensive i must admit :-)
So if I could get a hold of a device with all the llamasoft apps on it, i could extract the files (IPA files) and share them with whoever is in charge of the llamasoft archive at this point by dropbox. That way they could be shared and enjoyed without the hassle of the big bad apple!
Do you remember who is in charge of the llamasoft archive, and if so could i maybe get their contact information?
I would really like to help with preserving and sharing these great pieces of art ;-)

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I have the apps as IPA files.
I always thought you couldn't just copy them to any device as they would not work?
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What!

Do you have dropbox? If you do, maybe you could share them with me at mikkelstubbe@gmail.com, and I could try to see if it works.
And if it does, maybe the archive people could put them up?

Could you do that?

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WladimZappo wrote:Well Giles -

I bought an app for my mac that enabled me to extract the iPhone compatible ios llamasoft apps, and transfer them to my old iPhone. It was super-simple and only cost me the payment for the app. which was a bit expensive i must admit :-)
So if I could get a hold of a device with all the llamasoft apps on it, i could extract the files (IPA files) and share them with whoever is in charge of the llamasoft archive at this point by dropbox. That way they could be shared and enjoyed without the hassle of the big bad apple!
Do you remember who is in charge of the llamasoft archive, and if so could i maybe get their contact information?
I would really like to help with preserving and sharing these great pieces of art ;-)

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I THINK ( 99% sure ) that's PVB that keeps the LS archive.
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WladimZappo wrote:What!

Do you have dropbox? If you do, maybe you could share them with me at mikkelstubbe@gmail.com, and I could try to see if it works.
And if it does, maybe the archive people could put them up?

Could you do that?

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I think I still have an old dropbox account (haven't used in a while). Will see if I can get one setup with a link sometime tomorrow for you to try.

If everyone is ok with that?
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Would be great!

We would be preserving and safeguarding the art and beauty of llamasoft for future generations - just think about it ;-) !!!

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WladimZappo wrote:Would be great!

We would be preserving and safeguarding the art and beauty of llamasoft for future generations - just think about it ;-) !!!

WZ
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.. and of course continue to promote and buy the NEW Llamasoft games, keep us going making more games for you to enjoy :mrgreen:

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Also the Android APK's of Gridrunner, Goat Up, Super Ox Wars, Five A Day and Caverns of Minos are available on the Llamasoft website, where you can also make a donation... Just saying, like.
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WladimZappo wrote:Would be great!

We would be preserving and safeguarding the art and beauty of llamasoft for future generations - just think about it ;-) !!!

WZ
Been looking into this and apparently the .ipa files contain apple account info so not willing to share them out.
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gilesgoat wrote: [some words from our sponsor]

.. and of course continue to promote and buy the NEW Llamasoft games, keep us going making more games for you to enjoy :mrgreen:

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For sure I will be buying anything new you do for PC or Oculus Rift.
If you ever did need a Mac machine for anything though I have a Mac Mini sitting here unloved and not used. You are welcome to have it if you ever need it.
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Okay Whiteball - I understand ;-)

Too bad though - do you think that they would work with my iPhone though, even though they had your iTunes information on them?

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