bcass wrote:Odd. I'm using the same model, but with Swedish Snow RLS7 (2.3.5) and it runs really slow, as per the test versions. How stable is 4.0.4 on this device? 2.3.5 is generally very nippy and rock solid compared to the stock OS.
I can't really comment on the stability in daily use as I was using Japanese Jellyfish when it was my main phone, only stuck 4.0.4 on to have a play when I upgraded. Only gets used for minor tasks these days like streaming music or as a hotspot for my Samba sim.
It's nice and smooth, smoother than I remember it being, but how smooth and stable it would be with a few apps running I dunno. The browser is a bit unstable now I think about it.
bcass wrote:Odd. I'm using the same model, but with Swedish Snow RLS7 (2.3.5) and it runs really slow, as per the test versions. How stable is 4.0.4 on this device? 2.3.5 is generally very nippy and rock solid compared to the stock OS.
I can't really comment on the stability in daily use as I was using Japanese Jellyfish when it was my main phone, only stuck 4.0.4 on to have a play when I upgraded. Only gets used for minor tasks these days like streaming music or as a hotspot for my Samba sim.
It's nice and smooth, smoother than I remember it being, but how smooth and stable it would be with a few apps running I dunno. The browser is a bit unstable now I think about it.
I did grab it the other day and had a quick play, I'm using a kindle fire with a custom ICS and it seems to run very nicely. I am liking this more than I thought I would (loved GR++ and GRR, and gridrunner on the ST, but wasn't so keen on the original C64 version, and I think I was doing something wrong as I downloaded GR on my good ladies iphone and it looked like the C64 original. That said, I think I'll try that again as I'm really rather liking the android version - though I must look into getting a controller to play with as my thumb keeps obscuring the vertical laser blasting fecker leading to quite a few accidental deaths). Thanks Jeff and Giles for the hard work! I was initially going to start asking when the other releases will come out on android, but having played this, I'd quite like to have some time with it before trying the other ones.
I'm amazed there are still roms coming out for the blade! It was a nice little phone but must struggle with quite a few of the newer, more whizz-bangy games... Which might be why gridrunner is a little slow.
guythp wrote: and I think I was doing something wrong as I downloaded GR on my good ladies iphone and it looked like the C64 original.
You were holding it landscape
Hmm, that might explain it... I did think it was a bit big on the old file size for what I was playing... Boy, is my face red.
One side in landscape is the C64 version, one is the Vic20 version (currently bugged in latest update as it's upside down) and super new version in portrait mode.
bcass wrote:The BLADE is actually normally very capable for simple stuff like this.
.. this is not simple stuff .. it looks like but it isn't ...
Is there any point in using shaders for something this simple though? You could probably achieve similar, if not the same effects using pre-rendered sprites/transparencies and half the GPU cost. It's obviously too late to go back and change things now, but still, it'd be possible I reckon.
bcass wrote:The BLADE is actually normally very capable for simple stuff like this.
.. this is not simple stuff .. it looks like but it isn't ...
Is there any point in using shaders for something this simple though? You could probably achieve similar, if not the same effects using pre-rendered sprites/transparencies and half the GPU cost. It's obviously too late to go back and change things now, but still, it'd be possible I reckon.
All of the games are created on and for a cross-platform engine based on Neon. If that were not the case there would be no non-iOS versions at all.
Emoticon and contraction free since... quite a while ago.
Got it and donated Works fine on my Transformer T101 tablet. Didn't work on my HTC desire, but that's a piece-of-crap with no storage space, and I really should upgrade it so no surprises there...
I was gonna get one of those but the lack of MicroSD annoyed me.
