Osgeld, on Mon May 13, 2013 5:14 PM, said:

I thought that at first, but the mouse text is in the first half of the ROM already at entries 64-95 (starting from 0).

Also, this ROM has an early version of mouse text, because the running man characters are still in it (#70 & 71) -- these were removed in later versions for more "practical" images instead.

Allan -- Thanks a bunch for this, it's fantastic and exactly what I was looking for.

Awesome! Thanks Curt!

 Curt Vendel, on Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:37 PM, said:

Any chance for a PDF and/or e-pub version?

I picked this up over the weekend as well -- my 15 y/o son actually found it first and showed it to me.  He's actually been playing a few of the games in between the more modern games he also plays on his iPad.  And I'm just happy that I can play Pitfall and Pitfall II anywhere I happen to be -- my GBA has been retired to the game shelf for a while now, so this is a much appreciated app.

As for older devices, it's not as much the capability of the device as it is Apple's support for the device.  iOS has been progressing at a very fast rate over the past 5 years and it is much easier to support the most recent iOS versions rather than trying to go back and support them all.  Apple has made things a lot easier for developers in later versions. And with those improvements, developers can spend more time on the things that matter more in the app rather than replicating functionality that Apple provides on earlier versions of the OS.

EDIT -- wanted to also point out that it appears that the TV screen with the game preview is actually running the emulator.  If you watch closely, you'll see that the screen image transitions to full screen when you start a game.  Very cool, IMO.  Also shows just how powerful these devices are -- it's emulating a 2600 while also running a 3D UI as well.  I still remember machines that couldn't emulate the 2600 at full speed back in the day...