taurus82 wrote:Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp or implement? This would also increase your consumer base (you know what I mean?)
I grasp the concept, and would love to see the Sound Spectrum customer base grow - but I'm just not interested in seeing GF, SS or WC ported to a game system that happens to play music too.
But hey, we are all entitled to our own opinions of the future direction of SoundSpectrum products ! Guess we will just have to wait to see what Andy has up his sleeve!!
(I'd still love to know if anyone at SoundSpectrum is playing with the iPhone/iPod Touch SDK...)
markofkane wrote:It's up to the developers what they want to do. We don't have any say. Maybe it's a licensing problem, or it's too difficult to make it work on portable units.(or is not financially feasible) All you can do is ask the developers directly. Maybe they can tell you if they can or cannot do it, and why.
The thing is, the developers are still too busy refining all of the SoundSpectrum products to go work on other projects, I believe.
I've been waiting for Darkroom for Windows for years, but I understand that everything takes time.
Am I starting to annoy (apologies if I am, I only want the best for my chosen community ie PS3)
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markofkane wrote:It's up to the developers what they want to do. We don't have any say. Maybe it's a licensing problem, or it's too difficult to make it work on portable units.(or is not financially feasible) All you can do is ask the developers directly. Maybe they can tell you if they can or cannot do it, and why.
The thing is, the developers are still too busy refining all of the SoundSpectrum products to go work on other projects, I believe.
I've been waiting for Darkroom for Windows for years, but I understand that everything takes time.
Am I starting to annoy
well I hope you're not here to annoy but if you are your posts can be deleted quite easily
Anyway - lets get back on the original topic of this thread: GF and/or WC on the iPhone or iPod Touch (I hate when a topic gets threadjacked)
It seems like the iPhone\Touch has the graphics & processing power needed for GF and/or WC based on the game demos during the iPhone SDK announcement (the graphics of Spore & Super Monkey Ball looked great). Does anyone think otherwise?
I'm not sure the Touch or iPhone would support GF. Obviously not as an iTunes plug-in, since iTunes isn't able to run on those platforms. So only the stand alone would be possible, but it would need to be re-written to run on the processor in those devices. Also, Apple has announced that in the final release of the SDK background applications can't keep running when you switch to a foreground one. The phone/touch music player would need to be launched, a song selected, then a return to the Springboard to launch GF. I'm not sure that will be possible (or at least not easy to program). But perhaps SoundSpectrum is one of the 100,000+ developers who have downloaded the SDK and we will be pleasantly surprised.
I think a more likely candidate would be the AppleTV—streaming GF might be easier on a fast network.
willrob wrote:I'm not sure the Touch or iPhone would support GF. Obviously not as an iTunes plug-in, since iTunes isn't able to run on those platforms. So only the stand alone would be possible, but it would need to be re-written to run on the processor in those devices. Also, Apple has announced that in the final release of the SDK background applications can't keep running when you switch to a foreground one. The phone/touch music player would need to be launched, a song selected, then a return to the Springboard to launch GF. I'm not sure that will be possible (or at least not easy to program). But perhaps SoundSpectrum is one of the 100,000+ developers who have downloaded the SDK and we will be pleasantly surprised.
I think a more likely candidate would be the AppleTV—streaming GF might be easier on a fast network.
If I were you guys I would wait for the 3rd or 4th version of these phones, by then they will have huge processing power and will probbaly be able to handle far more than a visualiser
I just noticed that SoundSpectrum has released an iPhone native app called Fotomatic in the iTunes Application Store!! It's not the SoundSpectrum visualizer on the iPhone\iPod Touch that I really want - but at least I know that Andy is playing with the iPhone SDK!
I haven't given up hope (yet) for G-Force or WhiteCap on the iPhone...even though Apple currently prohibits any developer from accessing the iPhone’s library with a native application.
To clarify: Apple does not allow a app to patch into the musicplayer system. SSo if G-Force made its way to the iPhone, it would have to get its music from another source (possible one of those "radio" web sites.
juxtiphi wrote:
If I were you guys I would wait for the 3rd or 4th version of these phones, by then they will have huge processing power and will probbaly be able to handle far more than a visualiser
It's totally time. iPad 2 and iPhone 4 can send 1080p over HDMI using a gadget available from Apple. The processor may not be able to handle 1080p G-Force, but I bet the latest iPhone and iPad could crank out a very nice G-Force at 720p.
I'd pay good money not to have to bring my laptop into the home theater every time I want G-Force/Music.
spblat wrote:It's totally time. iPad 2 and iPhone 4 can send 1080p over HDMI using a gadget available from Apple. The processor may not be able to handle 1080p G-Force, but I bet the latest iPhone and iPad could crank out a very nice G-Force at 720p.
I'd pay good money not to have to bring my laptop into the home theater every time I want G-Force/Music.
Now it's REALLY totally time: with iOS 5 we can mirror video to AppleTV while music plays in the background. My psychedelic visuals are now supplied by Gloop over wifi AirPlay mirroring to the TV while music plays in the background. While I'd rather look at G-Force, I don't have a computer connected to the TV anymore, and it's too much of a pain to set up.
That A5 processor has to have the guts it needs to give us G-Force. I'm pledging a day-one "G-Force for iOS" instabuy for $10. Anybody else?
spblat wrote:It's totally time. iPad 2 and iPhone 4 can send 1080p over HDMI using a gadget available from Apple. The processor may not be able to handle 1080p G-Force, but I bet the latest iPhone and iPad could crank out a very nice G-Force at 720p.
I'd pay good money not to have to bring my laptop into the home theater every time I want G-Force/Music.
Now it's REALLY totally time: with iOS 5 we can mirror video to AppleTV while music plays in the background. My psychedelic visuals are now supplied by Gloop over wifi AirPlay mirroring to the TV while music plays in the background. While I'd rather look at G-Force, I don't have a computer connected to the TV anymore, and it's too much of a pain to set up.
That A5 processor has to have the guts it needs to give us G-Force. I'm pledging a day-one "G-Force for iOS" instabuy for $10. Anybody else?
This post was made by Andy in the Aeon section on the 9th November:-
andy55 wrote:syscheck, as BTT mentioned, we're days away kicking off releases of all our products that fix and add a ton of new stuff. look for the aeon 1.2 beta in a couple days and released by the end of next week.
](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall")
Guess we will just have to wait to see what Andy has up his sleeve!! 
