App development and random thoughts.
It has been a long wait for common sense to prevail within Apple. As much as I want to celebrate, I still can't help being a little bit cautious about the future. Are we good from now on? Get iDOS3 on AppStore I hope iDOS can now enjoy its turn to stay and grow. P.S. Even though words feel inadequate at times, I would like to say thank you to the supporters of iDOS. In many ways, you keep iDOS…
Earlier quite a few iDOS users and supporters reached out to me to let me know about the recent AppStore policy change (Thanks, EU). In light of this, I decided to resubmit iDOS. However, it looks like Apple has blacklisted iDOS 2, preventing me from even requesting a review under that title, and I had to submit under a brand new title "iDOS 3". Here's where things got interesting. Initially they…
I hate to say it again: Get it while you can . Recently I tried to submit an iDOS update with a few bug fixes, but then got a notification from Apple Review Team, and my heart dropped cold. To ensure there is no interruption of the availability of your app on the App Store, please submit an update within 14 days of the date of this message. If we do not receive an update compliant with the App…
iDOS v2.4 is now available in AppStore . Forgive me if I didn't implement this feature sooner. I really had no idea the difference could be so drastic. I never owned a Roland MIDI device before, poor me! Now to enable this feature, you need to override midi section in dospad.cfg with [midi] mpu401=intelligent mididevice=mt32 midiconfig= mt32.romdir= config mt32.reverse.stereo=false…
iDOS v2.3 is finally available in AppStore . Things we did in the new design: Bigger screen in portrait mode, making it more comfortable to play; Keyboard in portrait mode has been extended with 6 additional keys: insert, delete, home, end, page up, and page down. Now we don't need fn to switch. If you like to write code in iDOS (some do and me too), this will be very convenient. The landscape…
I am happy to announce that iDOS v2.2 is now available in AppStore . This is a major update for iPhone, with brand new UI redesign for iPhone. The work on iPad is still going on, but I figure it would be more safe to release iPhone version first, so we can get feedbacks in time. iDOS was first released in Oct 26, 2010. If you remember well, the resolution of iPhone at that time had always been…
A new update of iDOS has been approved again by Apple. So clearly they have changed mind about emulators. The update includes some UI fixes as well as a very important feature that allows you to launch iDOS from a folder in iCloud Drive. First we prepare a folder in iCloud drive with the suffix .idos , then put our game files in that folder. After the folder is synced to your iPad, you can tap on…
It has been 4 years since the last iDOS 2 update, because Apple prohibited not only itunes file sharing, but also bundling game files (unless you are the author). If we were to strictly follow their guidelines, the only thing you could do with iDOS 2 is to play with command line! I don't see that such an update could be useful to anyone. 16 days ago, DanTheMan827 on github suggested that I should…
I am pleased to announce that Write Only 2 is now available on App Store . I did a check and found out the original Write Only was first released in Jan 16, 2013 . The icon is simply a photo of my typewriter, best birthday gift ever. As simple as it is, Write Only has been well received by some fans. It's sad to think that 7 years have passed, and I have yet to build another app as fun as it is.…
Every two years, we will catch up with TeX Live. Previously, TeX Writer uses TeX Live 2018. This year, it's time for an update. We also added synctex support, so that now you can use "View source" in pdfviewer and go straight to tex source. Other changes are: You can configure pdfviewer's page background by setting a variable in your twinit.l , for example: (set! pdf-page-background-color "#f00")…