`'SECRET iPhone Video Out Features,' iPhone As A `Videogame Device

by **J The Kidd** Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:04 pm

Hey, just because using secret undocumented iPhone SDK calls
might get you booted from the App Store doesn't mean it's not a good
time -- Ars Technica commissioned Freeverse to mod its Moto Chaser game
to use the hidden video-out features in iPhone 2.2, and we have to say
the results turned out pretty decent. It's not perfect -- it looks like
it only works in landscape mode, and rendering to TV resolutions
strains the processor and slows framerates down on all but the faster
2G iPod touch -- but it works, and it's a taste of where iPhone app
development could go if Apple ever opens up the gates. Or you could
just be Google and do whatever you want, we suppose. Video after the
break.