Comments on: iPhone’s framebuffer secrets revealed

By: benjamon

benjamon — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:33:34 +0000

While they may be very public about what they do, how they do it is very much a secret now. I don't know their intentions for such. Perhaps ego driven, so they can see DevTeam news posted instead of Geohotz or Chronic's devs. Cheap Mobile Phones

By: Eddie562

Eddie562 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:07:36 +0000

Hey i have a question about the new snes version 6. I had the version before the new one came up and i went to cydia and it had an update for it and i got it but i didnt like it. It gave me rock and a 9 day trial when i use to have it free before. Can you please put up the old version back up i would appreciate it. Thank you

By: lilskaterpunk

lilskaterpunk — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:11:09 +0000

Nice to see increase!

By: zodttd

zodttd — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:48:46 +0000

The DevTeam is very close knit and by this decision seems to prefer security through obscurity. While they may be very public about what they do, how they do it is very much a secret now. I don't know their intentions for such. Perhaps ego driven, so they can see DevTeam news posted instead of Geohotz or Chronic's devs.

It's sad to see a team based on opening a device up become so determined to keep their information closed and a secret.

By: zodttd

zodttd — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:33:09 +0000

This is correct. OpenGL ES probably uses VRAM off the video hardware. But for non-OpenGL ES emulators, the majority of them, it could be a win.

By: @Hackmodford

@Hackmodford — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:33:45 +0000

This should really boost the N64 emulator right?

By: TheRain

TheRain — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:10:56 +0000

I don't think this will boost the N64 emulator, as it's going to make use of OpenGL ES. AFAIK there would be no way to re-route Open GL ES to this framebuffer.

By: @ianmarmour

@ianmarmour — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:36:49 +0000

I actually dont understand why the dev team wouldent allow access of the information to you. Maybe for fear of leaking but that seems counter productive for the iPhone development groups. Isn't the whole point of being an open source to share information and help the iPhone be an over all better working platform. Or did they not want to release the information for fear of apple getting a hold of it. Seems utterly confusing to me. Wondering if somebody could explain their reasoning to me.

By: Millhouse

Millhouse — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:58:21 +0000

whoohoo! Finally! Although I wonder how the dev team will think and react to this, you reverse-engineering their redsn0w tool, when they didn't want to tell you in the first place. Please, ensure there's no drama…