After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased attention also brought the threat of legal action, as Adobe targeted Delta for sporting a logo that looked too […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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The developer behind Delta has been threatened with legal action by Adobe, forcing the game emulator to change its icon. Adobe's logo [left], Delta's new icon [middle], Delta's old icon [right] On Friday, the Delta game emulator updated its icon to something a bit unusual. Instead of an incomplete triangle that represents its namesake, the fourth Greek letter delta, the icon's top section appears to have been broken off and shifted to one side. In a Mastodon post, the change is...
Gamma, a free emulator of the original Sony PlayStation, was added to the iOS and iPad App Stores on May 11th. Screenshots from the Gamma emulator on the App Store Gamma is similar to developer Riley Testut's Delta emulator, especially in terms of the interface. Like Delta, it allows customizable on-screen controller skins, and includes support for Bluetooth controllers as well as wired keyboards. It supports both Google Drive and Dropbox for backing up your own game disk images as...
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Delta, an emulator that can play Nintendo games, had to change its logo after Adobe threatened legal action. You'd think it would face trouble from Nintendo, seeing as it has been going after emulators these days, but no. It's Adobe who's going after the developer, which told TechCrunch that it first received an email from the company's lawyer on May 7. Adobe warned Delta that their logos are too similar, with its app icon infringing on the well-known Adobe "A," and asked it to change its logo...
In this week's episode of the AppleInsider Podcast, your hosts are looking to the future of AI, delving into the past with emulators on the App Store, and diving into the present with the new iPad Pro now that it and the iPad Air are in users' hands. Mockup of an iPad Pro user working on the "Crush" ad (iPad image source: Apple) After two years waiting, the iPad Pro and iPad Air have been updated -- and buyers are getting them. Wes Hilliard went almost, but not quite, maxed-out on an...
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