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DOS Emulator In and Out of App Store

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the going-for-hte-record dept.

gent01 writes "A company called Fast Intelligence got DOSBox running on iOS and dubbed it iDOS. It's been stuck in review for the app store for some time. Evidently the iDOS app was in the app store this morning, but it has already been taken down."

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  1. What happened to rational apple fanbois?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does SJ release one puppet after another on all Apple related stories? I know /. has definitive apple slant, but lately, we have been flooded with zombie moron fanbois like above. At least earlier version were more rational while arguing in favor of apple.

    Or perhaps this is sign of changing times - more and more dumb people are using apple products and we are just slowly seeing the effect here now?

  2. Re:Lets change the title to: by Dr.+Zim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that's why Steve create Apple-Script and all sort of applications have exposed hooks so that users can script things that just ain't gonna happen in the other camp.

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    (name withheld by request)
  3. Re:It could be the "arbitrary code" clause but... by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds about right for a reason to pull the app.

    call me paranoid, but, I'm not comfortable with the idea of ANY userland app having even read-only access to the iOS filesystem.

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    Non impediti ratione cogitationus.