Einstein Newton emulator running on iPhone

I got this going on my MacBook Pro and it works really well--a lot faster than my original Newton. Nicely done. I think this would be a hoot on my iPhone 4 with one of those styluses that mimic a fingertip. This might be worth jail breaking an iOS device if Apple doesn't allow it in the App Store. I have a hard time imagining Apple would allow this on the Apps Store given you have to provide a legitimately acquired ROM image.

Newton is not dead, it's just getting new hardware :-)

I as wondering when someone was going to do this. I what this to happen.

Very cool.... would love to try this out.

For other Apple nostalgia, you might want to look at mini vmac, an emulator for early 680x0 macintosh systems. (Requires jailbreak and access to a macintosh rom file...)

It's not all that practical, but it is interesting. It could potentially be made more mac-like with BTStack keyboard and mouse driver support though...

I haven't tried it on the iPhone myself, but I did find it very useable on a Sharp Zaurus several years ago.

YEAAAAAAAH!!!!

*cough*

Man I loved my Newton.

Hopefully they can get this working on a 3G!

I have found memories of my Newton. I loved that thing.

Finally...

This is really cool, and a very impressive work of hackery. I'm intrigued, but truth be told, I let Newton die in my heart a long time ago.

I've owned a 2100 and an eMate. While they were mildly fun to play with, The Newton OS is dead for a reason. In spite of proponents arguing that it's still a great device, it's been largely surpassed by other devices and OS. Not just in computing power, or features, but very structure that Newton uses.

It should probably be iNstein ;)

This is a great first step, but they need to get it running on an iPhone 3GS, because that's the model I have and, more importantly, the iPhone 3GS has the exact same screen resolution as the Newton MessagePad 2x00.