However, the developer warns that Apple might remove it completely from the store in the future, which would make it unavailable even to those who had it in their purchase history.

Users who have purchased the app will be able to continue using it after it has been removed from the App Store. Please note that while educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code, such code may not be used for other purposes and such apps must make the source code completely viewable and editable by the user. Joe & Mac is honestly a fairly basic platformer for its era. The company even mentions that some apps with educational purposes can run code under limited circumstances, but that this was not the case for iDOS 2. With game streaming and emulators, a smartphone gamepad lets you play an incredible variety. Executing code can introduce or changes features or functionality of the app and allows for downloading of content without licensing. It was once the default browser on all Apple Mac. Got a new laptop and can’t find Internet Explorer on it Internet Explorer was first released in 1995 and it was once the top browser until 2004. This guide teaches how to use an Internet Explorer emulator for Mac computers. Specifically, your app executes iDOS package and image files and allows iTunes File Sharing and Files support for importing games. There are certain websites that are designed for Internet Explorer. Still, Apple says that iDOS 2 violates guideline 2.5.2, which prohibits apps from installing or running external code on iOS. On his website (via MacRumors), the developer clarified that he always made it clear in the app description what it was capable of running in sandbox emulation and that no code can be downloaded directly from the internet. As this would break the app’s functionality for those who paid for it, Li has decided that he will remove iDOS 2 as requested by Apple. Users had been enjoying this possibility as the app even supports external keyboard and mouse, which basically turns the iPad into a Windows machine.įollowing the app’s repercussion, Apple informed developer Chaoji Li that he should update the app to remove the ability to let users import packages and image files from external sources, otherwise the app would be removed from the App Store. PCE.js currently emulates Mac Plus, IBM PC/XT and Atari ST functionally in recent versions of Chrome and Firefox. It's a port of Hampa Hug's excellent PCE emulator, put together by James Friend. However, it is also capable of running a full version of Windows, such as Windows 3.1. PCE.js runs classic computers in the browser.

Unfortunately, as expected, Apple didn’t like the idea and iDOS 2 will soon be removed from the App Store.Īs the name suggests, iDOS is an iOS app that is designed to emulate classic DOS games on the iPhone and iPad. Earlier this month, my 9to5Mac colleague Parker Ortolani wrote about iDOS 2, which is not exactly a new app but had been getting a lot of attention recently as users discovered how to use it to run Windows 3.1 on the iPad.

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