On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:49:32AM +1000, René Dudfield wrote: > hi, > > there is a port of SDL to iphone which hasn't been made public yet > because of the NDA. Actually... SDL was ported separately by at least > 6 different developers that I know of. I'm guessing it was ported > maybe 10-50 times total? > > Well, anyway... porting pygame to it is the next step. However I > think the iphone puts other legal restrictions in place which make > free software, and open source unable to run on that platform. > > The other issue is they ban virtual machines... like python. However > I've heard people have made ports of python anyway. > > It's a hostile platform for open source, python and pygame. > > > So in short... most of the hard work has been done, but I'm not > entirely sure if anyone has done it yet... and even if they did, you > wouldn't be allowed to use it freely. > > > cheers,
Which is certainly why the previous poster suggested having it in a Cydia source, not in the App Store. My preferred target would definitely be jailbroken iPhones, not the Apple SDK. Arr, Mateys! --- James Paige
