Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator.
When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed his friends how to load illicit software onto their bulky graphing calculators. Such behavior was generally discouraged at school, but he wasn’t plotting to cheat on a test. He was simply traversing the Viridian Forest, surfing across the Kanto seas and collecting gym badges.
“The teachers didn’t think we were playing Pokémon,” Testut told TechCrunch. “They were just like, ‘Why is everyone so into their calculators?’”
<p lang=«en» dir=«ltr» xml:lang=«en»>before emulating Pokemon on my iPhone I had to use my TI-84 like an animal pic.twitter.com/t7uMj8J5KS— Riles
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