I thought this was a music player? Why not through a baby monitor on the thing, while your at it?
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iPod Tetris Game and Cube Effects?
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Lunja said:Is it just me or did the top photo on that page looked photoshopped? Was thinking that a swirl effect (sorry- don't know its name) wouldn't alter the lines of the pixels, if that's what the black lines are... Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, which I no doubt am
EDIT- Corrected my own spelling lol!
I had the same thought.
Lunja said:Ahem...
Nevermind eh?!
To all people thinking, like me, that it was photoshopped, I think an earlier post-er was right - It's been done to protect his serial number.
Also that effect would be darn small when viewed from normal distance
Re the swirls: those aren't effects (why would an iPod swirl its own About screen?)--he's just obscuring his name and S/N.
Re the controls: the article states, wheel to move, center button to rotate. (There may be no drop funtion, since Apple likes to keep your music controls working full-time. It's not purist Tetris anyway--the board is shorter.)
Re any of it: I have my doubts! Can the (current) iPod hardware really handle those 3D effects? Some of them even look anti-aliased, and all of them are presumably good enough to see on a TV.
I'd love these features via a software update, but I'm not holding my breath.
Re the controls: the article states, wheel to move, center button to rotate. (There may be no drop funtion, since Apple likes to keep your music controls working full-time. It's not purist Tetris anyway--the board is shorter.)
Re any of it: I have my doubts! Can the (current) iPod hardware really handle those 3D effects? Some of them even look anti-aliased, and all of them are presumably good enough to see on a TV.
I'd love these features via a software update, but I'm not holding my breath.
Very cool, maybe we'll see this next week @ WWDC. Regardless, just the mention of "Tetris" has made me want to play that dangerously addictive little game again...
YES! I have a 60GB iPod photo and i HATE THIS BUG. I don't think it's necessarily 3rd party headphones, though. I use Sony wrap-arounds and Sony studio monitors with my iPod. The wrap-arounds have never triggered the autopause. The studio monitors, however, have a rather long plug, and sometimes very slight movements make it pause.phawksworth said:
The autopause (when you un-plug the headphones) is a clever feature, but I wish I could turn it off, since it hates my studio monitors.
ok the swirl effect is to cover the name, dont know why. the reason hes showing the about page is to show the version number and stuff.
if its fake, it looks pretty damn real. they followed apples style really well, especially on the tetris screen. however, that said, it would be that hard to make the screenshots in photoshop, based on ipod screenshots from apple.com or wherever, at the right resolution for the ipod screen, and upload them. i mean, the ipod photo is designed to display photos full screen. why not display a faked screenshot and take a photo of it?
if its fake, it looks pretty damn real. they followed apples style really well, especially on the tetris screen. however, that said, it would be that hard to make the screenshots in photoshop, based on ipod screenshots from apple.com or wherever, at the right resolution for the ipod screen, and upload them. i mean, the ipod photo is designed to display photos full screen. why not display a faked screenshot and take a photo of it?
jimsowden said:
well first i have a 515mb shuffle for mountain biking, a 4gb blue mini for regular use and a 15 GB that i use at work instead of a radio with an itrip, i cannot stand ads
barneygumble said:well first i have a 515mb shuffle for mountain biking, a 4gb blue mini for regular use and a 15 GB that i use at work instead of a radio with an itrip, i cannot stand ads
Ditch the 15 and the mini and get a photo.
I have two iPods, shuffle and 3G 20 GB, and I only use the shuffle for data transfer.
I used to play Tetris quite a bit...it became an all consuming activity...It's taken me several years to stop dreaming about re-arranging giant shapes in my sleep...I guess it will start all over again...that is if my wife ever let's me have the ipod again...she is even more addicted to Tetris than me.
dotdotdot said:
I just replaced the battery in the 15GB, it is in reasonable nick but i really don't want to part with it. It is my baby!! I would be more content to get rid of the mini, but i cant seem to see it happening. I use all three ipods every day dammit. I like the mini because it is very light and does't distract me whilst walking
What's stopping someone from making these images in photoshop, putting them into their iPhoto library, and then photographing the image on their iPod?
I'm not saying it is or isn't fake ... I just don't own an iPod photo, so I don't know how easy it would be to simply fake the photos that way.
In any event, either way it's not that big of a deal. New transitions and tetris.
s e a m l e s s p l a y b a c k ... for the love of god, seamless playback or crossfades would be a godsend one of these days.
I'm not saying it is or isn't fake ... I just don't own an iPod photo, so I don't know how easy it would be to simply fake the photos that way.
In any event, either way it's not that big of a deal. New transitions and tetris.
s e a m l e s s p l a y b a c k ... for the love of god, seamless playback or crossfades would be a godsend one of these days.
johnbro23 said:
The controls for Tetris would be easy on the Ipod. Left, Right, Down (to accelerate the brick), and center button to rotate the brick. This wouldn't allow people to change songs while in game, but hitting menu could pause the game and allow this. Tetris is the perfect game for the ipod.
Update request
Before releasing this to the public, I hope they also add the ability to sort by date DESC -- because the difference between 'last roll' and 'last 12 months' causes a lot of unnecessary scrolling to get to the content I'm trying to access.
Before releasing this to the public, I hope they also add the ability to sort by date DESC -- because the difference between 'last roll' and 'last 12 months' causes a lot of unnecessary scrolling to get to the content I'm trying to access.
mattster16 said:
Don't forget that the 4G iPods, including the Photo, can read input on the click wheel like a clock (as seen by using the diagnostic test on the wheel). thus the entire wheel could work as a "joystick" (similar to how the Intellivision controller worked, if anyone had one of those
But like you said, it's not necessary for Tetris as you could just use the four buttons you mentioned above...
Yet another reason to pointlessly waste battery life
Something as simple as an iPod photo update including a few new transitions and a game could reasonably be released this week, I'd say. This isn't something Steve would brag about at WWDC; it would only waste his breath while he could be releasing other new products ::nudge nudge::
Something as simple as an iPod photo update including a few new transitions and a game could reasonably be released this week, I'd say. This isn't something Steve would brag about at WWDC; it would only waste his breath while he could be releasing other new products ::nudge nudge::
