Gregory's ServerOK it took me a while, but I worked out I have to manually patch SpringBoard to enable third-party app icons. I figured I’d see if Lights Off runs, based on the code @chockenberry released — but that's all iPhoneOS 2.0 code, for the SDK, and needs a ton of work to backport it to iPhoneOS 1.0 😔
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Steve Troughton-Smith
Luckily data-hoarder-me had a copy of my iPhoneOS 1.0 toolchain, so I installed it into a Mac OS X v10.5 VM and fixed up the port 😄 It's alive! /cc @chockenberry
Steve Troughton-Smith
Video of the original Lights Off for iPhone running mostly as intended on iPhoneOS 1.1 in qemu
Steve Troughton-Smith
And if for some reason you ever need to install iPhoneOS 1.0 in an emulator and use third-party apps from the home screen, my SpringBoard patch was to SBIconModel _addItemsToIconList:fromPath:withTags: where I bypass a [[[SBPlatformController sharedInstance] allowedDisplayIdentifiers] containsObject:] and change the beq from an 0A to a 00. If there's an easier way of doing this, I couldn't find it after 16 years of link rot 😅
Steve Troughton-Smith
Re-learning a lot today; the iPhoneOS 1.0 SDK is *very* different from iPhoneOS 2.0 and everything after it. Simple things like UIColor, UIScreen don't exist. Even UITableView was 'just’ UITable. UILabel was UITextLabel. QuartzCore was 'LayerKit’. There is no UIApplicationDelegate either, you subclassed UIApplication instead. Really shows the longevity of a public API contract; almost everything in iPhoneOS 2.0 is very familiar to modern UIKit development
Steve Troughton-Smith
@collin most things I emulate don't correspond to a shipping qemu, so aren't really UTM-able |
@stroughtonsmith @chockenberry where's that Cidya icon? 😜 more seriously, amazing work and threads. Thanks for sharing those explorations, nice trip down memory lane (esp reposting the old thread on Mac OS X 10.0 and theming 🤘)