But one of them may have copied someone else’s work.
  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    When I saw this, I was like “why did Riley not release Delta and instead released GBA4iOS under a different name?”

    Appearently because the release wasn’t authorised by Riley and they haven’t provided the source code per GPLv2 demands anyways; clearly against its licensing. Scummy move.

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, and they’ve done a shitty job of it too. Downloaded it out of interest and ran Super Mario Land. It looks like crap and it’s full of ads that you can’t pay to remove.

      Also, while it shows up when I search, it’s not in my App Library at all, which is odd.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    In an email to The Verge, developer Riley Testut said the app is an unauthorized clone of GBA4iOS, the open-source emulator he created for iOS over a decade ago (and recently resurrected for the Vision Pro).

    A Mastodon user found that iGBA does not reference the license, which may violate its terms.

    I’d suggest reading developer Mattia La Spina’s Github-hosted privacy policy before diving in.

    I did not attempt to find or play any Commodore 64 games with Emu64 XL and deleted the app.

    That control is breaking down now, with the EU’s Digital Markets Act making the company permit other app stores and sideloading on the iPhone.

    Whatever the case, emulators being allowed feels like a win; it’s just a shame the first apps to take advantage of that aren’t quite up to snuff.

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  • callmepk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Damn, I love people under article’s comment keep ignoring that the Alternative App Store he’s building, AltStore is already able to install on your iPhone/iOS for years via sideloading: https://faq.altstore.io

    I personally used a forked version of it tho so that it can renew natively on iPhone called SideStore

    • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I was worried that you would be giving dev access to a remote server to achieve that, but they actually use a fucked up wireguard tunnel to do fake loopback to sort of psuedo-host the AltServer locally. Super cool