With emulators available even on smartphones, dipping into your playing past is easier than ever
“That one probably has one of the most noble goals of emulators,” says Stuart Cairne, a Tasmanian software developer.
Carnie, whose day job is at a data company, often found himself contributing to these projects so favourite games like“I wanted to play the games, and being a developer I had the tools and skills ... I would often bring them to whatever platform I was on, which has been a Mac for the past 20 years. “We had licensed the branding, so we were able to sell it as a Commodore64,” Carnie says. The emulator sold on the app store for US$4.99 and included five games: Dragons Den, Le Mans, Jupiter Lander, Arctic Shipwreck, and Jack Attack.
“We had one [game] we had released on the Commodore 64 for free because we couldn’t track down the rights to it, and then the Bruce Lee foundation messaged us to say it had to be taken down because Bruce Lee’s name cannot be used,” Carnie says.For many years emulators were the link to our childhoods. They existed, as Bowman and Carnie note, in somewhat of a legal grey area.
“After that it’s pretty straightforward,” he says. But as he continues, it really doesn’t sound like it.
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