• What coding language is used to make games for the video iPOD? Is there any current information for developers?


  • Apple doesnt not provide the API or framework to write custom applications/games for iPod, the reason (in my opinion) is not the reveal internals of Ipod to development community to hack it and play non-itune songs etc:) if you really want to do something cool for ipod you can start with installing linux on your ipod: http://ipodlinux.org/Podzilla IPod has an ARM based processor and you would find a lot of code snippets in podzilla. I did try installing it on my ipod mini but it didnt workout well. Make sure you read the installation instruction carefully and know the concequences of flashing your ipod. another thing you need to keep in mind is that ipods have click wheel, you need to design your games properly to optimise the use of click wheel. hope this helps cheers sushil


  • Podizlla only works for 4th gen and previous... make sure to read the FAQ's


  • This is from the book gaming hacks. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0596007140&id=zrqz84QUuSEC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=gaming+hacks&vq=ipod&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dgaming%2Bhacks&sig=EOoe53Rk5J2J52gGIZSwSCQCUx0


  • Since the Ipod is a closed source device, there is no official SDK. Programs written in C can be cross-compiled to work on the ipod's arm platform. Files compiled in this manner need to be added as a module to the PODZILLA software which runs under IPODLinux. To add the module you need to compile PODZILLA with the module and a header (written in programmers notepad) added in the correct directories. Full details here: http://ipodlinux.org/IPod_Programming It is also possible to program at a lower level, without running Linux, however this is complex and currently still exploratory, The language used is C and again an arm targetted GCC cross compiler is used: http://www.dwelch.com/ipod/ In order to get this code running, you need to inject it into the Apple update distribution, much the same way that the IPODLinux installer works. Hope this helps.


  • The correct capitalization is iPod. see http://www.apple.com/ipod/