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

[goldfish]

It doesn't really matter! Should the samples be downgraded to sound like crap just to save 10s of download time? Or should they use MP3 clips to slow down gameplay?

I just figure there's a balance somewhere in there. If MP3s are more of a speed hit than punting large files around, fair enough, but I suspect that in the context of the game, knocking a bit of quality from the wavs wouldn't be a significant problem.

Simon

[M]

eMac G4 800 Mhz 256 RAM OS 10.2.8

0.921feels the fastest/smoothest but the stats no longer display - I just get green boxes at the top of the screen - so I can't confirm this.

App no longer unexpectedly quits on Game Over

Did get some slowdown at one point during play but not as crippling as before (also, unlike before when I was only running GR++, I had some other stuff open at the same time today so could be that which caused todays slowdown...I'll have to play more to say for certain!)

Web high scores still do not open from link in this thread And when we are on the subject, will there be an option to toggle automatic sending of scores so I can, you know, practise a bit without people laughing...

Also, PayPal was mentioned before - I assume there will be other payment options...please...

This is getting better every day - can't wait for tomorrows update!

[matt]

Still very nice on this G5.

Here's a much smaller fire.wav that I resampled and re-saved using Sound Studio. There was just no need for it to be 16-bit and Stereo. Now it's 8-bit and mono, though still 44KHz. Hope that helps.

http://www.ewtoo.org/~matt/forums/fire.wav.zip (34kb zipped, 392kb unzipped)

matt

[skab]

You'll find a resampled version of the original sample in your PM, gravy

The samples are actually pretty lo-fi, but played all together in the game they sound really great. Just like an early 80 arcade machine should sound (and that's a good thing!).

[gravy]

Still very nice on this G5.

Here's a much smaller fire.wav that I resampled and re-saved using Sound Studio. There was just no need for it to be 16-bit and Stereo. Now it's 8-bit and mono, though still 44KHz. Hope that helps.

http://www.ewtoo.org/~matt/forums/fire.wav.zip (34kb zipped, 392kb unzipped)

matt

Wow, nice one matt It's in the game now

[gravy]

You'll find a resampled version of the original sample in your PM, gravy

The samples are actually pretty lo-fi, but played all together in the game they sound really great. Just like an early 80 arcade machine should sound (and that's a good thing!).

Ahh cheers as well Skab, this place is great

[skab]

Another machine:

iBook G3/600/384MB/10.3.6

Works fine in 640x480 fullscreen, but in 1024x768 (native res) fullscreen you only see some lines on the top and that's it. Borked.

Windowed modes work all fine.

640x480 fullscreen perfectly playable, 3rd value goes up to 130 in TN mode.

[Jimaroid]

Seems to be slowing down after playing for about 20 or 30 minutes - TNM starts clocking at about 115%.

I've only got Snak and GR++ running when it happens and the only thing I can tie it to is that it appears to be linked to sound events happening in Snak. I.e., when someone leaves or joins the channel, Snak's `bing' makes GR++ go slower and sometimes doesn't recover. Like I say though, it only happens after periods of play.

Probably nothing to worry about and the above sound sample changes might fix it.

I can't stop playing this game.

[Bubba]

17% / 40% / 100% on an iMac G5 1.8ghz with 1gb ram (not mine - belongs to the department). That was at max rez in turbo nutter mode.

Noticed a bug though - you can't go back a letter in the slot management part. Oh and it's bastard hard, especially with a standard mac optical mouse (and I thought my G3's horrible circular ball mouse was nasty!). Ewww - better hope they pu a decent mouse on it soon - jumpy all over the place on this desk, and feels far too heavy when used on a mousemat / paper. Oh and it's only got one button, but I guess you can't have everything!

Cheers

Bubba

[super charlie]

17% / 40% / 100% on an iMac G5 1.8ghz with 1gb ram (not mine - belongs to the department). That was at max rez in turbo nutter mode.

Noticed a bug though - you can't go back a letter in the slot management part. Oh and it's bastard hard, especially with a standard mac optical mouse (and I thought my G3's horrible circular ball mouse was nasty!). Ewww - better hope they pu a decent mouse on it soon - jumpy all over the place on this desk, and feels far too heavy when used on a mousemat / paper. Oh and it's only got one button, but I guess you can't have everything!

Cheers

Bubba

apple really need a two button scrollwheel mouse. this thing is driving me MAAAAAD

oh, and dont you have to click one of the goats to go back a letter?

cheers
charlie

[matt]

Apple will never do one themselves. Just... because.

I use one of these: http://www.macmice.com (£30ish) but a cheap (£15) Microsoft optical mouse will also do the job nicely.



matt

[super charlie]

i bought a similar belkin type job, but i found that the wire was so stiff that it lifted the front of the mouse up, leading to some hilarious random mouse cursor flying to the top left corner of the sceer antics.

are these better matt, or do you have similar problems?

cheers
charlie

[matt]

i bought a similar belkin type job, but i found that the wire was so stiff that it lifted the front of the mouse up, leading to some hilarious random mouse cursor flying to the top left corner of the sceer antics.

are these better matt, or do you have similar problems?

I have no problems otherwise I would not have recommended it. I bought mine from Micro Anvika on Tottenham Court Road.

matt

[super charlie]

cool, ill add one to my christmas list!

cheers
charlie

[matt]

cool, ill add one to my christmas list!

cheers
charlie

Some left-handed people have complained the lead on these MacMice are not long enough when connected to certain old G4 PowerBooks. I don't have this problem, but you may be different.

matt