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iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had completely forgotten about iPod games! I think there was one called Vortex that I liked a lot and there was also game version of the show LOST that I only played because I was a mega-fan of the show that was otherwise very frustrating.

Also a great example of why DRM sucks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is taking me back to playing a barely controllable homebrew port of Doom on my jailbroken ipod video.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Oh wow, I totally forgot about doing that as well! I think I spent the better part of a day getting it work, then “played” it for all of two or three minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I remember playing it under Rockbox on some media player. I don't even remember what it was, now, but it was a solid little device.

[–] ruckblack 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wanna say I had sonic 2 installed? And it was about as controllable as you'd imagine with the scrollwheel lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I never tried Sonic on the iPod, but I bet it was ridiculous to control!