For the nostalgics out there who splurged and bought a Newton back in the nineties, or always wanted one and never could afford it, there may be some hope. The Newton, for the ones who never heard of the device, was Apple’s first shot at building a mobile personal digital assistant, and can be seen as the distant ancestor of the current iPad, iPod and iPhone. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, he quickly killed the project, but since then many devoted fans have worked on keeping the software portion of the device alive.
Soon after the death of the product, a team of developers led by Paul Guyot has kept Newton alive via an open source project they maintain on Google Code, and ported the operating system to many platforms over the years, including Macs, Linux, Windows, and a limited set of non-Apple PDAs. Their latest port, executed by developers Matthias Melcher and Steven Frank, includes the iOS line of devices, and specifically the iPad.
The emulator still runs fairly slowly, about half the speed of the original device, but upcoming optimizations will likely make the Newton port on the iPad as swift as the original. Don’t expect the emulator to show up in the App Store though, even though it has been submitted for approval. For now, enjoy the video, and with some luck, the app will someday be available in the App Store – and if it never makes it, expect to see it on Cydia soon enough
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