The team led by developer and App Store activist Riley Testut has implemented its announcement and has now released the popular retro game emulator Delta for the iPad. The problem: EU citizens currently have to stay out because the alternative app marketplace AltStore PAL, which is already available for the iPhone, is currently missing for the tablet.
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This only happens starting with iPadOS 18
Apple ID accounts that do not come from the EU have been able to use Delta for iPad since the weekend Through Apple’s App Store Related. However, in the EU, the emulator is only distributed via AltStore PAL, which is per year For just under 1.80 euros via Patreon The cost to cover Apple’s controversial core technology fee. Apple also wants to bring an alternative App Marketplace offering to the iPad, but like Apple it will only happen with iPadOS 18 announced the,
“Marketplace apps, like all iOS apps, must meet notarization requirements and can only be installed through the Marketplace developer’s website. These features are available to users in the 27 EU Member States and will be introduced in iPadOS 18 later this autumn,” said the company in a brief. Meanwhile, it seemed that Apple would not equip iPadOS with an alternative App Marketplace program because the company assumed that iPadOS was not regulated by the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Tablet support is part of the app package
Testut and the team have decided to distribute the iPad version of Delta as part of an iOS package, as is also the case with many other apps. Accordingly, it was obviously not possible to publish the app individually in one of the EU app stores for iPad only. However, it is also possible that the team did not want to run afoul of the obligation to use AltStore PAL within the EU.
There is iPad support Part of Delta 1.6. The app, which now has “more than 10 million” users according to its creators, has been “fully optimized for (tablets)”. Although you could previously play Delta on an iPad, you only use the iPhone app there. In the future there will be full-screen playback, dedicated controller skins just for the iPad, support for Stage Manager and Split View (i.e. multiple windows), as well as Handoff support for switching between iPhone and iPad. In the future, the app will no longer require BIOS files and will handle DS games better. Delta is available free of charge in Apple’s App Store.
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