How does old games look like on iPhone5?

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• Mells Guru

  September 2012

  Unless I'm mistaken I think the iphone 5 is not available yet (pre-order only).
  This is what I've read :

  The iPhone 5, however, has a 16:9 1136×640 display; it’s the same width as the iPhone 4/4S, but it’s 176 pixels taller. Rather than do something interesting with this space, though, Apple will simply letterbox all 3:2 apps — all 700,000 of them in the App Store. If you can believe it, you will actually get black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Tellingly, there isn’t a single photo of what this letterboxing looks like on the Apple website.

  But I don't know anything about the quality of the source.

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• techdojo Guru

  September 2012

  I'm curious to know if the player will automatically return the correct height values etc for the new iPhone5 or if an update will be required?
  
  Given that it's an 1136x640 retina display - will we need to code iPhone apps to support a 320x480 and 320x568 resolution and let the retina @2x scaling do it's magic?
  
  

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• phongtt Guru

  September 2012 edited September 2012

  Ah, looks like 21 Sept. is the soonest to have one.
  
  http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone

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• SimpleLoop Member

  September 2012 Accepted Answer

  I have tested the latest Gideros player app inside the iOS simulator set to iPhone 5.
  Using the latest Xcode 4.5 developer build which is the GM Seed.
  
  It appears that Gideros automatically rescales to the new screen size and does return the right dimensions for the new screen yay.
  Looking in the player code it automatically gets the screen size and set's Gideros' GLView to that size so this should automatically work no matter what screen size.
  Also the scaling option set in Gideros (Letterbox, Crop, Stretch, etc..) takes effect.
  As long as the simulator works like the actual device, it should work fine .

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• Nascode Guru

  September 2012

  @SimpleLoop
  Good to hear Gideros could handle it automatically (even only tested on XCode Sim). When new iPad released, we must update all of our games on appstore because of scaling error...

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• atilim Maintainer

  September 2012

  @SimpleLoop thank you

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• SimpleLoop Member

  September 2012

  Thank you @atilim for coding Gideros in such an awesome way that this just works .
  
  A quick reminder, as with iPhone 4 you will need to enable retina display to get the full 640x1136 returned by application:getDeviceWidth() and application:getDeviceHeight().
  If retina is not enabled it will return 320x568.

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• gorkem Maintainer

  September 2012

  //offtopic// @simpleloop you can use HTML tags in your signature.

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• SimpleLoop Member

  September 2012 edited September 2012

  @gorkem hahaha yes I realised and just as I was about to change it earlier my internet decided to cut off.
  The world seemed to get slightly darker for about 10 mins while we fixed it haha.
  
  Thanks anyway

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• OZApps Guru

  September 2012

  One small thing, while Gideros will scale for the new resolutions, if the elements are hardcoded, they will leave a 176 pixel blank below the 960 image.

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• kussakov Member

  November 2012

  Weird. I just installed the latest Gideros (2012.09.2) player on my iPhone 5. It does not use the whole screen. It has those two black areas at the top and bottom.
  Do I need to do something special?

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• kussakov Member

  November 2012

  Never mind. I found the thread with the trick with the Default image. Apple works in mysterious ways...

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