It was a great little emulator based on Frodo for the iPhone. The other casualty was Manomino’s C64 Emulator. Making Gridlee unusable in any other iOS device I might get in the future. Thank you Atari!) Now it looks like Apple may have permanently taken access to that directory away. To their credit, they did finally fix it. (My other favorite game Atari’s Greatest Hits which plays Atari 2600 games fell to this issue. Even after Apple borked other ways apps downloaded content in iOS 8 Gridlee still worked. Did you catch the sarcasm? Anywho, Apple yanked it from the App store but as long as iFunbox had access you were good to go. But you know Apple, they are the only ones that can bring great tech to the masses. Console’s had solved those issues years ago. I wasn’t aware there were technical issues that needed to be solved. That was before Apple “figured out how to do controllers”. And the best part of Gridlee, it was compatible with the iCade, also because I liked portability the iCade 8-Bitty.

It’s attraction was that it was leaked that if you used an app like iFunbox you could drop Zip files with MAME compatible ROM’s in Gridlee’s Documents folder and voilà, Gridlee shows a MAME front end. From what I read the Gridlee game was licensed. It was basically a MAME emulator that played one arcade game, Gridlee. Gridlee, which was yanked within hours of being posted on the app store, allowed me to play arcade games in an emulator called MAME. Prior to 8.3 there were two important apps on my iPhone that I could use to feel like a kid again. But thanks to the 8.3 update to iOS we either have to jailbreak our phones or go somewhere else for our retro gaming fixes on the go.

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