Board Thread:Suggestions and Ideas/@comment-71.8.49.198-20130923172920/@comment-71.8.49.198-20130924175612

BrianXP7 wrote: Uh, I don't think it works like that. Not to mention the accessibility limitations such as a lack of an extra screen and full hardware buttons. It's impractical. Also, PTCUtilities isn't an emulator. They're separate programs with different purposes. An iOS version of PTCUtilities would work...somehow. I could see it as it's a simple text editor to a proprietary format with a few built-in image manipulators.

By the way, emulators are usually legal. (The open-source license defends most of them.) It's the content (ROMs) that are illegal because of copyrights and that jazz. Since the only content for a Petit Computer emulator to run would be user-generated media (noncommercial fair use for those with copyrighted content such as MegaMan and Pokemon), I don't see any possible reason why it would be. Also, SmileBoom's and indie dev studio. I doubt they would go through all that trouble just to sue one guy on their content being "infringed". I could be wrong, though.

P.S. I loathe Apple Inc. for various reasons. It's a bad company and you should feel bad using their products. Get yourself something more open like Google's Nexus line But, the lack of a second screen and hardware buttons wouldn't affect this at all. the emulator itself could take up half of the screen, the app could have a built in keyboard, and since SmileBASIC requires the DSi/3DS hardware buttons, they could be built in to the app as a transparent overlay or they could only be avaialible on the play screen.