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AppleInsider: Hidden feature turns iPhone into TV gaming device
Engadget: Secret iPhone video-out features hacked, used for video games
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis: iPhone as gaming console - Playing iPhone games on TV
MAKE Magazine: hacks: MPTVOutWindow - make the iPhone talk to your TV
MAKE Magazine: MPTVOutWindow - make the iPhone talk to your TV
Hidden feature turns iPhone into TV gaming device
AppleInsider —
... in the iPhone SDK last month, ArsTechnica's Erica Sadun got in touch with Freeverse, makers of Moto Chaser, and encouraged them to experiment with the APIs. A few hours later, the TV version of the iPhone game was born (video below). Though largely demonstrative, the game uses the iPhone's accelerometer for input and steering while routing the game's video through a video-out cable to the TV. Freeverse noted that the program ran best on the second-generation iPod touch, which ...
Secret iPhone video-out features hacked, used for video games
Engadget —
... Hey, just because using secret undocumented iPhone SDK calls might get you booted from the App Store doesn't mean it's not a good time -- Ars Technica commissioned Freeverse to mod its Moto Chaser game to use the hidden video-out features in iPhone 2.2, ...
iPhone as gaming console - Playing iPhone games on TV
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... To be fair, the second generation iPod Touch was only able to maintain 20fps frame-rates with its faster-than-iPhone CPU. So, we’re not likely to see standalone iPhone games that can be played directly through the TV anytime soon. But, it’s not hard to imagine a future where Apple might leverage faster, more powerful processors, possibly in combination with Apple TV, to turn the iPhone platform into a self-contained gaming console.
[Via: ArsTechnica]
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MPTVOutWindow - make the iPhone talk to your TV
MAKE Magazine: hacks —
... in Xcode including a TV build in addition to their standard Debug and Distribution builds.
The MPTVOutWindow class, though undocumented, is part of the standard iPhone libraries. Erica has posted class documentation and how to go about using MPTVOutWindow in place of the normal UIWindow. There's no telling if the API will be officially published, removed, or altered in upcoming Apple firmware releases, so keep that in mind and go make something awesome.
Hidden SDK features transform iPhone into TV gaming device
iPhone 2.2 SDK offers undocumented ...
MPTVOutWindow - make the iPhone talk to your TV
MAKE Magazine —
... in Xcode including a TV build in addition to their standard Debug and Distribution builds.
The MPTVOutWindow class, though undocumented, is part of the standard iPhone libraries. Erica has posted class documentation and how to go about using MPTVOutWindow in place of the normal UIWindow. There's no telling if the API will be officially published, removed, or altered in upcoming Apple firmware releases, so keep that in mind and go make something awesome.
Hidden SDK features transform iPhone into TV gaming device
iPhone 2.2 SDK offers undocumented ...
iPhone Undocumented Feature: TV-Out
Technology - Channel Feed —
It’s cool that app developer Freeverse has utilized an undocumented feature on the iPhone to turn it into a TV gaming device:
Just how much is Apple willing to keep everyone in the dark? Freeverse was able to tap undocumented SDK features to give their demo TV-out capability. To what degree will Apple allow its developers—and customers—to tap the iPhone’s TV-out functionality? Will they give programmers free reign to maximize it, or limit this ability for the its own sake?
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Doom for iPhone with TV-Out
Ubergizmo —
... Developer Steven Troughton has decided to test the TV-Out undocumented iPhone functionality and there you go: Doom for iPhone on a big, although monochromatic, screen. The choice for going monochrome is personal to Steven. The iPhone is perfectly capable of handling a color output as it is shown in this article, also from Ars. ...
iPhone Used as Controller to Play Doom on External Display [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... Following Erica Sadun's article on how to enable the iPhone's undocumented TV-out features, Troughton-Smith came up with the idea of avoiding the iPhone screen except to draw the controls necessary to navigate through Doom's corridors. [ ...
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