DOS Emulator In and Out of App Store 338
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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."
I would've been first but... (Score:3, Funny)
Why emulate Denial of Service? (Score:5, Funny)
But where can I get a floppy drive for iphone? (Score:1, Funny)
But where can I get a floppy drive for iphone?
DOS is useless without a floppy drive - 3.5 or 8 inch.
Re:This proves the previous story... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Lets change the title to: (Score:3, Funny)
Despite 20 years of criticism, Apple still makes sure that nobody can run a batch file.
Why run a batch file when you can run a proper shell script?
Re:I could have run cygwin! (Score:2, Funny)
If I had DOS then I could have installed an old version of cygwin [cygwin.com] and then got my favourite GNU tools working! Jobs would have had a fit it I could have done that.
Even worse, you could have run loadlin and run an old distro on your phone. Play with it a bit and I'm sure someone would have found another way of getting Android up and running on it. :)
yeah but (Score:4, Funny)
you can't spell it without CIALIS either so at least we know that after the revolution we will all be aroused.
Re:Well, duh. (Score:3, Funny)
DOS was vastly superior to modern OSes in that way, since apps could fully customize their own "screen of death" experience.
Re:Well, duh. (Score:3, Funny)
They wanted to play gorilla.bas