Submitted by Louis (not verified) on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 23:36.
It is not just good, it is terrific. I have tried all the PPC versions of Sudoku I could find through a Google searches, even commercial pay versions (trials), and no other version comes close to PS 1.0 apart from the "Generating" bug.
I play the "hard" level on a HP hx4700 (480 X 640 lovely) and have played hundreds of games on this PDA but the bug is predictible. I have also printed (before I got the PDA) out thousands of boards and played them.
If "Generating" is still on screen when you finish the game - all sorts of silly things happen. Then you have to do all sorts of other things to get the program working again - change to "Very Easy", start a new game, play it to end, change back to "Hard" again, start a new board, "Soft Reset". Most times even a soft reset won't fix it. Plus while "Generating" is on the screen the response to input of pencil marks and number placement is painfully slow and inaccurate.
I was even tempted to debug the source myself but, even though I am a programmer of 40 years, I haven't programmed in C# before. I have started to learn C# but it will be a long term project I'm afraid.
I assume that the problem is restricted to the hx4700 as I couldn't imagine too many people playing it on other PDAs with the way it works.
I complete some games in about 2 minutes or thereabouts so it does work sometimes. Other times I just put the game down with a couple of unsolved cells and walk away until the "Generating" is replaced with "Ready" then I complete the board.
Some boards start, generate and are ready in a couple of seconds and some have the "Generating" display for 25 minutes. This has got to be a bug and a very obscure one at that....
I realise that the game is a "labour of love" and that it is free and revenue neutral for Emil but it has been over a year since the 1.0 release.
I don't know about anybody else but I only ever play the 9X9 version, anything else is not Sudoku as far as I'm concerned.
It would be great if someone could explain what is happening during the generating phase. I have been to Sourceforge and I have had a peek at the source but it is quite envolved.
Anyway I'm repeating myself. If it was available on an iPod Touch I would go out and buy one tomorrow. If it worked (the program) I would even pay for it. There are other versions but they don't come close to the features and playability of PS 1.0. Nobody has the automatic pencil marks feature that I could see. They offer manual pencil marks. The "pickup" a number from any occupied cell feature is unique and terrific.... Anyway I'm rambling....
I hope, I hope, I hope a new version comes out soon with the bug fixed.... I hope, I hope, I hope.....
No development is forthcoming
It is not just good, it is terrific. I have tried all the PPC versions of Sudoku I could find through a Google searches, even commercial pay versions (trials), and no other version comes close to PS 1.0 apart from the "Generating" bug.
I play the "hard" level on a HP hx4700 (480 X 640 lovely) and have played hundreds of games on this PDA but the bug is predictible. I have also printed (before I got the PDA) out thousands of boards and played them.
If "Generating" is still on screen when you finish the game - all sorts of silly things happen. Then you have to do all sorts of other things to get the program working again - change to "Very Easy", start a new game, play it to end, change back to "Hard" again, start a new board, "Soft Reset". Most times even a soft reset won't fix it. Plus while "Generating" is on the screen the response to input of pencil marks and number placement is painfully slow and inaccurate.
I was even tempted to debug the source myself but, even though I am a programmer of 40 years, I haven't programmed in C# before. I have started to learn C# but it will be a long term project I'm afraid.
I assume that the problem is restricted to the hx4700 as I couldn't imagine too many people playing it on other PDAs with the way it works.
I complete some games in about 2 minutes or thereabouts so it does work sometimes. Other times I just put the game down with a couple of unsolved cells and walk away until the "Generating" is replaced with "Ready" then I complete the board.
Some boards start, generate and are ready in a couple of seconds and some have the "Generating" display for 25 minutes. This has got to be a bug and a very obscure one at that....
I realise that the game is a "labour of love" and that it is free and revenue neutral for Emil but it has been over a year since the 1.0 release.
I don't know about anybody else but I only ever play the 9X9 version, anything else is not Sudoku as far as I'm concerned.
It would be great if someone could explain what is happening during the generating phase. I have been to Sourceforge and I have had a peek at the source but it is quite envolved.
Anyway I'm repeating myself. If it was available on an iPod Touch I would go out and buy one tomorrow. If it worked (the program) I would even pay for it. There are other versions but they don't come close to the features and playability of PS 1.0. Nobody has the automatic pencil marks feature that I could see. They offer manual pencil marks. The "pickup" a number from any occupied cell feature is unique and terrific.... Anyway I'm rambling....
I hope, I hope, I hope a new version comes out soon with the bug fixed.... I hope, I hope, I hope.....