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FOUND: Apple welcomes back pc emulators on ios but are they here to stay | Mind Blowing Facts

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Remember the days of MS-DOS? If you don’t, you can experience classic PC games from that era on your iPhone, thanks to new App Store rules that, once again, allow the distribution of emulators. Which means iDOS 3 – a PC emulator that allows you to run applications made for MS-DOS via DOSBox – is back on the App Store.

It was only in April this year that we were celebrating the ability to turn an iPad into a retro game machine. 10 days later, that functionality was gone again, with Apple telling Chaoji Li, developer of iDOS 3, that “the app provides emulator functionality but is not emulating a retro game console specifically", with only retro game-specific emulators allowed per guideline 4.7.

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