*** Marine Aquarium for iPhone & iPad ***
 

Actually, Prolific and I have bigger fish to fry at the moment. We're scrambling around trying to get MA2.6 ready for the iPad deadline tomorrow.

Best of luck!

Oh, crap! -

Now I'll have to buy an iPad just so I can carry around MA, even if it is Ver 2.6.

*wonders if it will work on my iPod Touch?*

My intent in posting the "about" screen capture was to indicate the programmers, and the writer of the installer. A brief look at the Funnyfish Screen Saver is all it takes to understand that there was essentially no artistry involved - and certainly no artistic involvement by you, Jim.

In my opinion, Funnyfish is not up to "flying toasters" standards.

JohnWho - Yes, it already works well on the iPod Touch and iPhone. It's essentially the same program for the iPad, with the same resolution as the iPhone. Our guys (Order N Develolpment in Texas) can only run it on the emulator, since no one has an iPad yet. Once we can see it in the native environment, I'm hoping we can bring the resolution up to iPad capabilities. But at least we have a good shot at being one of the apps available at launch. I just re-did all the fish icons in the Fish Chooser interface, and they look good on the tiny iPhone screen.

Edit: the iPad version of Marine Aquarium runs at full 1024 x 768 resolution.

Thanks for that reply, Jim.

I can't seem to find it in the iTunes App store though.

How does one obtain a copy for their iPod Touch? Does it help if they already have a licensed copy?

It's not available to the public yet. Your iPhone's ID number has to be embedded into the build in order for it to show up. We're taking over the "Aquarium" name and icon from the version which was done by Arktis, our German distributer. They simply captured an MPEG movie of MA2.6 (and now MA3), then packaged it for iPhone download. The problem is that it's a HUGE download, and is a canned sequence. The version we just finished is a real 3D program which allows you to choose the fish, set the lights, etc.

OK - in that case I'll watch for it to show up in iTunes Store.

Wish you the best with it.

Looks like we got everything in before the deadline. Now we're waiting to hear if Apple accepts it.

I would love to get an iPhone version!

That would be amazing!

My iPhone is eagerly awaiting the aquariums arrival!

Marine Aquarium 2.6 is now available on the iPhone/iPad App Store.

https://www.feldoncentral.com/forums...ead.php?t=5302

Purchased as soon as I heard! Nice!

Beautiful! I just installed it, and it looks great on my i pod touch! Can't wait to get an ipad to see how it looks!:TU:

The current problem with the iPad is that it runs iPhone apps at iPhone resolution. The screen is much bigger, but it just stretches the image to fill it.

Edit: the iPad version of Marine Aquarium runs at full 1024 x 768 resolution.

Somehow I don't think I will be an iPad customer. Nothing personal it's just not my lifestyle. But I would be interested to know the relative screen sizes and resolutions. First time I saw MA2.6 it was on a 17" 1024x768 monitor and it just looked gorgeous.

The iPhone and iPod Touch are specified at 320 x 480
The iPad is specified at 768 x 1024. 9.7 inch diagonal measurement.

Correct. By the way, 1024x768 is the MA2.6 native res on the PC and Mac, so it may be possible to get it to run in that res on the iPad.

Edit: the iPad version of Marine Aquarium runs at full 1024 x 768 resolution.

So, you're getting effectively (approximately) 60 pixels per inch on the iPad.

And 768/320 = 2.4 (and 2.133 in the other direction), so whatever the "stretch" algorithm is, there are probably artifacts and/or distortions.

Nope, no artifacts.

60 ppi versus 132 ppi would make quite a difference. But I presume every other full-screen application developer is facing the same problem.

To market this product as "designed for both iPhone and iPad" seems a bit disingenuous to me. If it is "designed for the iPad" that means (to me) that it has been (re)coded to fit the iPad native resolution.

If I'm reading you right, it is basically running the iPhone app at 2X.

The conversion was done by Jim O'Connor's team. Like all other iPad developers, they only had an emulation program on the Mac. MA2.6 was selected by Apple as an official iPad app. Jim O's iPad hasn't arrived yet, but Mike Babin's has. Mike was able to get full-resolution of Ma2.6 on the iPad, despite severe programming constraints.

Marine Aquarium 2.6 is $0.99. That's LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR.

So I'm going to have limited patience allusions to this somehow being a ripoff. I'm not saying criticism and suggestions are not welcome, but please consider the price of the product.

Note: Because of the way the App Store works, customers will get a notification that a new version is available.

A couple of people have reported that MA2.6 actually looks very good on the iPad.

Mike Babin was able to get MA2.6 to use full resolution. You can even stretch and zoom in, using fingertip control.

Yes, full resolution on the iPad. No pixel doubling, stretching, scaling, etc.

Submitting the final binary before receiving the actual hardware was a bit nerve-wracking, to say the least. Since Apple reviews all the software before putting it up for sale on the App Store, I was almost entirely certain users wouldn't encounter any major flaws if the app made it through review. Still, first thing I did with my new iPad was test MA.

Yay, Mike!

Congratulations.

And please don't interpret my posts as criticism - I was just quoting the numbers, and it didn't surprise me that there might have been restrictions.

Glad you got full resolution, and of course on the slightly-smaller-than-monitor screen with the same number of pixels, it should look even better.

I've gone back and edited Jim's posts to indicate that Marine Aquarium 2.6 in fact displays on the iPad with no resolution issues.

But I'm considering closing the thread, since I'd rather folks not find this thread or reference this thread and somehow come to the conclusion that the iPad version is compromised in some way.

Thanks, Morgan, but I don't think closing the thread is necessary. The iPhone/iPad version is working as we hoped, and feedback is welcome.

Downloaded and installed on my iPhone and works a treat.

Now I can carry my aquarium around with me! (and annoy people with the bubble sound on high volume! :) )

Thanks, Dathomir!

Anyone who has downloaded and likes MA2.6 is encouraged to give it a positive rating in the App Store. At 99 cents (20 cents for me), we have to sell an awful lot of these things to make it worth the trouble. Right now, it buys my lunch. At least I can afford jelly with the peanut butter.

Them 20¢ add up. One million buyers is $200,000 bucks :D

A lot of these apps do actually sell into the millions, so I'm told. If only Jim had invented Farmville.

The Koi app was the biggest seller on the iPhone, and sold in the millions. We seem to be stuck at 126 per day.

Droid Eris?
 

Will there be an Android version too? Fingers crossed. I'm in tech school doing web design and everyone loves the screensaver on my laptop.

I was merely concerned about what the product actually was. I bought it for my iPhone.

I sell/repair macs for a living, so you might say I live and breathe Apple. I was immediately worried having seen iPhone apps running at 2x on the iPad. The apps work fine, but they look likecrap.

Feedback from iPad owners has been that they are deleting iPhone versions of apps the second an iPad version is offered.

I'm extremely pleased that the iPad version is rendered natively for the iPad. I bet it looks stunning. Maybe I'll spend $2.97 and install it on our 3 demo iPad units. :D

I updated the fan site with mocked up pictures of the Aquarium on iPhone and iPad.

Purchased and now running on my iPad, and it works great! Unfortunately since this is the MA2.6 version, the low resolution background texture is pretty obvious and could really use some improvement. Mostly it makes me immediately wish for an MA3 port.

-Robert