Re: iPhone/iPod Released!
Craig Luis <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:53:09 +0000
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--_000_CCF0B19D2BD41luisclinfieldedu_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I purchased this (since I actually have an iPhone now), and I have to say t= here are some definite issues. Trying to adjust the number of ships to buil= d seems to be hit or miss (mostly miss), and it will often change once you = lift your finger. The evacuate planet is extremely small and hard to select= as well. And moving ships seems to suffer from the same lifting the finger= issue, I will have a ship I am sending to a planet, and when I lift my fin= ger, the path disappears. In addition, ugly planets that I am strip mining = will magically say the next turn that you are terraforming a planet that wi= ll never be profitable. What? I didn't touch anywhere near there, and it se= lf adjusted (I have notice this happening with some of my other planets tha= t I have adjusted to change the balance of terraforming and mining as well,= basically the balance has been changed without me having adjusted it). Thi= s actually worked a lot better on my old Sony Clie than it does on my iPhon= e :-( Just for the record, I don't seem to have the touch and lift issue with oth= er games on my iPhone. Craig Luis (And yes, I still have my Spaceward Ho! Floppy disks for the Mac, from vers= ion 1.12 to version 3.02, and the CD for version 4). From: Peter Commons <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]= >> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <ho5pal= [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:43 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <ho5palm@yaho= ogroups.com<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [ho5palm] iPhone/iPod Released! Awesome to see Ho! live again on iPhone! Peter On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Gerry Garcia <[email protected]<mailto:ggarc1= @aol.com>> wrote: Congratulations Chris! Just bought it, will happily leave a positive recom= mendation, looking forward to trying the new features. Hope it sells! Good luck! Gerry On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Christopher Cotton <[email protected]<m= ailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The long awaited universal support for all iOS devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad) has arrived! Go get it now http://bit.ly/SpacewardHo This update incldues Game Center support, with leader boards to see how you compare to the other players, updated user interface dialogs and screens (try out the new Build Ships dialog!) and many other improvements and fixes. Let us know about any issues or suggestions. Up next, multiplayer! -- Christopher -- Peter Commons [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (425) 466-2658 (cell) --_000_CCF0B19D2BD41luisclinfieldedu_ Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <head> <style type="text/css"> <!-- /* start of attachment style */ .ygrp-photo-title{ clear: both; font-size: smaller; height: 15px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; width: 75px; } div.ygrp-photo{ background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: white; border: 1px solid black; height: 62px; width: 62px; } div.photo-title a, div.photo-title a:active, div.photo-title a:hover, div.photo-title a:visited { text-decoration: none; } div.attach-table div.attach-row { clear: both; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div { float: left; /* margin: 2px;*/ } p { clear: both; padding: 15px 0 3px 0; overflow: hidden; } div.ygrp-file { width: 30px; valign: middle; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div a { text-decoration: none; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div span { font-weight: normal; } div.ygrp-file-title { font-weight: bold; } /* end of attachment style */ --> </style> </head> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <div>I purchased this (since I actually have an iPhone now), and I have to say there are some definite issues. Trying to adjust the number of ships to build seems to be hit or miss (mostly miss), and it will often change once you lift your finger. The evacuate planet is extremely small and hard to select as well. And moving ships seems to suffer from the same lifting the finger issue, I will have a ship I am sending to a planet, and when I lift my finger, the path disappears. In addition, ugly planets that I am strip mining will magically say the next turn that you are terraforming a planet that will never be profitable. What? I didn't touch anywhere near there, and it self adjusted (I have notice this happening with some of my other planets that I have adjusted to change the balance of terraforming and mining as well, basically the balance has been changed without me having adjusted it). This actually worked a lot better on my old Sony Clie than it does on my iPhone :-(</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Just for the record, I don't seem to have the touch and lift issue with other games on my iPhone.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Craig Luis</div> <div><br> </div> <div>(And yes, I still have my Spaceward Ho! Floppy disks for the Mac, from version 1.12 to version 3.02, and the CD for version 4).</div> <div><br> </div> <span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"> <div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"> <span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Peter Commons <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>" <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:43 PM<br> <span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>" <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [ho5palm] iPhone/iPod Released!<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><style type="text/css"> <!-- /* start of attachment style */ .ygrp-photo-title{ clear: both; font-size: smaller; height: 15px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; width: 75px; } div.ygrp-photo{ background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: white; border: 1px solid black; height: 62px; width: 62px; } div.photo-title a, div.photo-title a:active, div.photo-title a:hover, div.photo-title a:visited { text-decoration: none; } div.attach-table div.attach-row { clear: both; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div { float: left; /* margin: 2px;*/ } p { clear: both; padding: 15px 0 3px 0; overflow: hidden; } div.ygrp-file { width: 30px; valign: middle; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div a { text-decoration: none; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div span { font-weight: normal; } div.ygrp-file-title { font-weight: bold; } /* end of attachment style */ --> </style><style type="text/css"> <!-- #ygrp-mkp { border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-family: Arial; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0 10px; } #ygrp-mkp hr { border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; } #ygrp-mkp #hd { color: #628c2a; font-size: 85%; font-weight: 700; line-height: 122%; margin: 10px 0; } #ygrp-mkp #ads { margin-bottom: 10px; } #ygrp-mkp .ad { padding: 0 0; } #ygrp-mkp .ad p { margin: 0; } #ygrp-mkp .ad a { color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none; } --> </style> <div>Awesome to see Ho! live again on iPhone! <div><br> </div> <div>Peter</div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Gerry Garcia <span dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <u></u> <div style=""><span> </span> <div> <div> <div> <p>Congratulations Chris! Just bought it, will happily leave a positive recommendation, looking forward to trying the new features.</p> <div><br> </div> <div>Hope it sells! Good luck!</div> <div>Gerry<br> <div> <div>On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Christopher Cotton <<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div> <br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div style=""><span> </span> <div> <p>The long awaited universal support for all iOS devices<br> (iPhone/iPod/iPad) has arrived! Go get it now<br> <a href="http://bit.ly/SpacewardHo" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/SpacewardHo</a> This update incldues Game Center support,<br> with leader boards to see how you compare to the other players,<br> updated user interface dialogs and screens (try out the new Build<br> Ships dialog!) and many other improvements and fixes.<br> <br> Let us know about any issues or suggestions. Up next, multiplayer!<br> <br> --<br> Christopher<br> </p> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <p></p> </div> <div style="color:#fff;min-height:0"></div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> <br clear="all"> <div><br> </div> -- <br> Peter Commons<br> <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br> (425) 466-2658 (cell)<br> <br> </div> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"></div> </div> </div> </span> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div width="1" style="color: white; clear: both;"/>__._,_.___</div> <!-- Start Recommendations --> <!-- End Recommendations --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <img src="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97476590/grpId=10420310/grpspId=1705053332/msgId=656/stime=1355511194" width="1" height="1"> <br> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 77%; border-top: 1px solid #666; padding: 5px 0;" > Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional <br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ho5palm/join;_ylc=X3oDMTJndjBoOHB1BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEwNDIwMzEwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA1MzMzMgRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNzdG5ncwRzdGltZQMxMzU1NTExMTk0">Change settings via the Web</a> (Yahoo! 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