Is the iPhone or an iPod Touch required to develop on?
by Shane09 · in General Discussion · 02/21/2009 (10:14 am) · 2 replies
If I were to purchase iTGE, and develop games using the Torque Game Engine for Apple Inc, which is required? The iPod Touch, or the iPhone? Can you only obtain a developers license when buying the iPhone? Or can you only have an iPod Touch and legally develop games/apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch? Thanks in advance.
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Be aware that the 33% bus speed increase of the new generation of the iPod touch can spoil you. All the old devices have 100MHz data buses, while the 2G iPod touch has a 133MHz bus. This translates to much faster transfer speeds - for example, startup time could vary by several seconds (1 sec on the newest devices, 4 on the old). That's an eternity to the average user ;)
The CPU speed has also changed between the four different hardware variants running iPhone OS. That's two generations each of the phone and the PDA. I think it ranges from 412MHz to 532Mhz, but this doesn't affect things as much.
02/22/2009 (3:55 am)
The full SDK licence does not require you to prove you have anything. It's just a subscription. I signed up a week before I even bought my iPod touch.Be aware that the 33% bus speed increase of the new generation of the iPod touch can spoil you. All the old devices have 100MHz data buses, while the 2G iPod touch has a 133MHz bus. This translates to much faster transfer speeds - for example, startup time could vary by several seconds (1 sec on the newest devices, 4 on the old). That's an eternity to the average user ;)
The CPU speed has also changed between the four different hardware variants running iPhone OS. That's two generations each of the phone and the PDA. I think it ranges from 412MHz to 532Mhz, but this doesn't affect things as much.
Torque 3D Owner Sherman Pendley