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gaming apps account for approximately 70% of all App Store revenue.
On the iPhone, where they go out of their way to prevent Steam or anyone else eating into that market. On Mac it's probably closer to 0% of all revenue, and they seem incapable of competing for it.
>install DOSBox for Mac Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one. Nowadays the three most popular one would be DOSBox-X, DOSBox Pure, and DOSBox Staging https://dosbox-x.com/ https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x https://schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed/ https://www.dosbox-staging.org/ h…
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> Mind you there are countless DOSBox forks out there and the vanilla original one is probably the least interesting one. What do you want to be "interesting" about dosbox?
If I'm reading the article right, they are saying that macOS is giving the scare warning on it - this implies that DOSBox is an x86_64 binary and not ARM native. If true, that implies development is on life support at best, since any actively-developed project targeting Mac OS would likely have shipped an ARM version within 6 years of the ARM transition. So anyone who wants to ever run Mac OS 27 or buy a Mac after ne…
I'm not sure if this works well for more demanding games, but recently I wanted to let my kid play Number Munchers and Oregon Trail and just built a webpage for those games using js-dos. It worked well enough for those games.
The person who created js-dos runs https://dos.zone as well which has a bunch of abandonware running on the browser.
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Apple is dogmatically anti games, they only spare bare minimum of effort to support videogames as an necessary evil. It's some Jobs' teaching thing.
gaming apps account for approximately 70% of all App Store revenue.