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Fans save iPod clickwheel games for posterity

It's legal, too: the "digital locks" do not have to be boltcut.

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Nov 04, 2024
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Clickwheel! Photo: Saku Schildt / Shutterstock

Apple's iPod is gone—phased out between 2014 and 1017, with the touchscreen version discontinued in 2019—but the ingenious clickwheel interface is immortal. Fans of games that used it are evading Apple's DRM controls to rescue those titles from the history books, reports Kyle Orland at Ars Technica. Thanks t…

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