Amiga Emulator for iPhone in demonstration

There are few vintage computer clans that rival zealously and tenaciously with Cult of Mac members, but fans of Commodore Amiga are approaching it. The successor of the very popular Commodore 64, the Amiga is a 16-bit multitasking computer that has been very successful in the gaming and video production markets.

Now, the computer that never dies arrives on the operating system of the future: iAmiga for iOS has been demo and is (hopefully) soon available on the App Store.

touchArcade just released a long overview of iAmiga, an upcoming iOS version of the developer of mobile applications Manomio. The company currently offers a Commodore 64 emulator who made news by initially to be rejected from the App Store for its BASIC programming capabilities. TouchArcade Henry Patterson spent time with a pre-release beta:

After spending a lot of time with the iAmiga system, I can tell you that for an early build, it is really impressive. It is true that some of the games I tried were a bit perverse at one point, but the vast majority of them worked perfectly and perfectly on my iPhone 4. I speak of its totally accurate, flawless graphics , fluid animation games were played on the standard Amiga 500 configuration that mimics iAmiga.

A video demo has been created showing many popular Amiga games running on the emulator:

The games presented in the video are (in order): Defender of the Crown, Battle Squadron, International Karate +, Type R, Type R II, Speedball, Stunt Car Driver, Shadow of the Beast, Virus, and Xenon 2: Megablast. Patterson notes that this list does not represent the list of games that will be available on the App Store, some come from its own collection of Amiga disk images.

Manomio has optimized the code of the Amiga emulator in ARM badembly language to optimize performance. Third-generation iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPod touch devices are currently supported, and iPad support is planned for a future release. No release date has been announced.