The Mac OS X Gridrunner++ Beta Test Thread **V 0.921**

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The Mac OS X Gridrunner++ Beta Test Thread **V 0.921**

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I've got another version (DEMO 0.91) that it'd be cool if you can test.

+ You can rename the app and it will still run
+ Pods vertical bars now work
+ Quitting from the spooge dialog does not crash

+ Sends high score info to central web server
+ Sends performance stats to centrals web server

- Log reports a thread crash on exit
- Network thread runs all the time and slows game
- Can't change level by clicking on cippy
- Box bottom right pixel not plotted

You can get it here

As ever all help very gratefull received. This ver may be slightly slower as I've a slight bug with my thread coding. I'll post to see if I can get some help on the Programming forum :)
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Yep, second level of the demo has some noticeable slowdown compared to previous versions (by 6 - 10% according to the stats, saw it jump to 140% for a brief moment) but otherwise it's looking good.
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:D Wow, 0.91 looks much better!

:( OK, the figures are slightly higher for 0.91 than 0.9
(800*600 on my 800Mhz G4 eMac with 256 RAM)

Now about 33, 90, 101 on average (c.f. 11, 66, 100 before) in Normal Mode

:cry: Turbo Nutter much worse: now 63, 161, 163 (was 24, 124, 124)

On the upside, the slowdown which sometimes appeared in 0.9, ruining the gameplay, does not seem any worse this time out :wink: (about 140% when it appears in Normal Mode)

:? 0.91 always unexpectedly quits on the Game Over screen, just after saying "Your mother was a"

:fluffy: Looking forward to the next version...
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wow! thats both faster and smoother on my machine :D

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This runs better on my Machine too. Very smooth, and it's an ideal game to play with a Powerbook trackpad. It's a bit less sensitive than mouse control and gives the ship more weight. Is there any way to disable the mouse cursor when you're playing?

Stats from an 876 Powerbook, 1GB Ram.

Line 1: 47%
Line 2: 20-60%
Line 3: 121-130%
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Oh yeah, I forgot to say:

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mm, it works fine here,

1) or me it seems to work far faster than on my wintel laptop, my mac is faster (1 ghz) but still
2) isn't the windowed mode smaller than on the pc version?
3) the levels seem a tad shorter, (or is that just becuase it runs so much faster than via emulation by virtual pc?)

but it is lovely!, can i already announce it on dutch mac sites ('legendary games developer Yak makes his first OSX game'), or would you rather have it that i wait ?
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Cheers Romanista :D

I"ve around 3-4 days work left to do on it. I want to do the following:

- Few small bugs
- Alert the user if there's a new version ready for download
- Merge the demo and full version in to one binary
- public / private key software registration code
- Hook into paypal (or other payment system) for purchase

I'm doing the stuff to enter the reg code and unlock the game for the first time. I've got a pretty good idea how I'm going to do it but any pointers from anyone who has done this before would be really handy.

Cheers

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Hands up who accidentally deleted the disk image before copying the application..... :oops: :lol:

Downloading the new version now :D
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Hmm, runs much slower on my machine :cry: I didn't take down notes of yesterdays, sorry.

30-60 (!?)
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120+

That was in fullscreen. It 'felt' slower than yesterday's in windowed mode too.

Looks nicer though :)

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can i ask where the 'central server' is, so i can see if im any good or not?

or is it a secret??

:?:

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super charlie wrote:can i ask where the 'central server' is, so i can see if im any good or not?

or is it a secret??

:?:

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Okay, I've slapped up a very raw and ready php page that shows all of the scores to date in descending order :)

http://dev.xengroup.com/gridhs.php

Come on Rod, you can do better than that :D
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Page never loads here, hangs on "waiting for"...
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I really need a mac :)

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Yak wrote:Page never loads here, hangs on "waiting for"...
Odd, just checked w rik and it works fine there. Could you do a few refreshes?

Anyone else having bother?>
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