Arcade Emulators, Redux

Back when I owned an iPad 2 (acquired ~13 years ago), I bought Atari's Greatest Hits and also a Atari Arcade stand with a joystick. The stand connected to the iPad 2 with a Doc Connector, which speaks to how old the technology was.

I declared the iPad 2 both obsolete and slow after a few years; I replaced it with a 5th generation iPad, which alas uses a Lightning connector. The newer iPad is now also obsolete, but not so slow (or used enough) to replace it.   

I still have the Atari Arcade stand and its incompatible Doc Connector sitting around gathering dust. However, last week I discovered not only was Atari's Greatest Hits was installed on my current iPad (I didn't think the App was supported), but by using a Doc Connector <--> Lightning Adapter & an extension cable it will run the games with the Atari Arcade stand and its joystick. 

Cool!

Atari Lunar Lander running on my 5th Generation iPad

Sadly, my attempt to make the display bigger with the iPad HDMI adapter simultaneously with the Arcade stand did not work. 

I can now run arcade games on MAME on Linux, on Windows 95 virtual machines, and my iPad. Not that I ever get around to using any of them …