Old Minotaur games Can be resurrected on modern iOS devices!

[Foozwah]

Yak’s still not created a Patreon, which could in theory pay for the iOS licence.

Ah, well I will continue to live in hope then!

Switch is NOT "a dead possibility", it's certainly "more alive" than what iOS could be.

Aaaaand my hope comes in many forms.

[Gilby 4000]

There’s hope!

Introducing touchHLE, a high-level emulator for iPhone OS apps:

https://touchhle.org
https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE

[Foozwah]

There’s hope!

Introducing touchHLE, a high-level emulator for iPhone OS apps:

https://touchhle.org
https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE

Ooh... Only Super Monkey Ball so far, but the dream has def been rekindled!

[Gilby 4000]

Compatibility has grown considerably, we'll get there! :-)

https://appdb.touchhle.org

[Foozwah]

That is definitely a big step forward on a year ago - nice!

[Gilby 4000]

Lost Llamasoft Games rediscovered - PC/Steam Deck/iOS - Minotaur Rescue and Minotron 2112

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdvlA2PP8o

[Misfit]

Lost Llamasoft Games rediscovered - PC/Steam Deck/iOS - Minotaur Rescue and Minotron 2112

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdvlA2PP8o

This is rather cool.

Thanks for pointing it out.

I also hadn't realised a few games had been resurrected for jailbroken older iOS devices, will have to look into that, although I do have an iPad I never upgraded with a few on.

[Deckard]

Yeah I am wondering what the best / cheapest / easiest point of entry for iOS games like GR and MR are ? Or should I just get like a cheap 50 quid android tablet and run them on that ?

[Misfit]

Yeah I am wondering what the best / cheapest / easiest point of entry for iOS games like GR and MR are ? Or should I just get like a cheap 50 quid android tablet and run them on that ?

Not sure everything is on Android, but also not sure what can be recovered on iOS.

Certainly, a cheap tablet should play them all and would be the easiest way.

[Deckard]

Maybe a 2nd hand one of these - I am totally clueless about android stuff but I cant imagine the specs need to be that high to run old LL mobile games....

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/tcl-t ... 56184.html

[Misfit]

Maybe a 2nd hand one of these - I am totally clueless about android stuff but I cant imagine the specs need to be that high to run old LL mobile games....

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/tcl-t ... 56184.html

Not a clue, but since it plays perfectly on my Surface Duo phone from 2020 I would imagine anything fairly new would have enough power.

[mb3018]

wow thank you thank you thank you

[rowan]

Interesting.

I had the ios games on an old ipod touch and having carefully avoided updates etc. of all things, I lost them when some cunt broke into my house when I was away for work.
They didn't even find a grand of stuff but the ipod was part of it

[Whiteball]

I still have them all on an iPod touch as well.
Still think they are some of the best games I played back then on that and the early iPads.
Shame they never took off on the store, would have loved to have seen more of them.

[Gilby 4000]

Please note none of the iOS games currently works with touchHLE (iOS emulator for Win / Mac / Android):

Stable releases: https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE
Preview builds: https://touchhle.org/download/

And maybe never will. So you're only bet at this time of writing is an old iOS device.

However if you do have an Android device Llamasoft kindly released 5 of the Minotaur Project games for free (links below). They're work in progress versions, but fully playable.

iOS:

Minotron 2112: https://archive.org/details/minotron-2112
Goat Up: https://archive.org/details/goat-up-ios
Caverns of Minos: https://archive.org/details/minos-ios
Deflex: https://archive.org/details/deflex-ios
Minotaur Rescue: https://archive.org/details/mino-rescue-ios
Gridrunner: https://archive.org/details/gridrunner-ios

Android:

Super Ox Wars, Five A Day, Caverns of Minos, Goat Up: http://minotaurproject.co.uk/Minotaur/Goodies.zip
Gridrunner: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lsshop/Gridrunner116.apk.zip

PC:

Minotron 2112: https://archive.org/download/minotron-2 ... on%20PC.7z
Minotaur Rescue: https://archive.org/download/mino-rescu ... ue%20PC.7z