I am very worried that a lot of iOS games are going to be completely lost to time, due to how locked down the platform is.
It was released the same year the App Store launched. My wife was addicted to that game. The game and the author later disappeared. When my wife's phone was stolen in Rome, she couldn't re-download the game because it wasn't available on the App Store anymore.
Shame, too, because it was a really good game. I think it was the first app we ever paid for.
Actually, there's a decent chance it won't even work in iOS 10 or would have major glitches, because legacy compatibility in iOS just isn't great in general.
And it's literally impossible to downgrade to an older OS version after Apple has closed the signing window.
Yeah, me, too.
Unlike the iOS emulator in xCode, it looks like you can actually load third party apps into this. Can't help with dead activation servers though.