The Widescreen Thread

[Alphasoldier]

I don't think they want to set a date, purely because they don't want to be stressed or that they want to dissappoint you when it doesn't come out on thatdate. As afar as I've heard, it's nearing with a month but I could be totally wrong.

[Alec]

The widescreen changes are going to be released with a bunch of other tweaks and fixes as version "1.1.0". This will also be the same version # as the Mac release. So we won't release the patch until after the Mac version is done and out.

[Hiro]

Um, ok. In that case, I'm looking forward to the Mac release almost as much as a Mac user would.

[ryos]

...and, Ambrosia has announced that Aquaria/Mac will be released in the "first quarter" of this year. I think they actually meant the second quarter, which any sane person would call the first, but anyway, it ends on March 31. Unless the date has slipped, that places the widescreen patch no more than a month out.

I'm excited! 

[Glamador]

wouldn't the quarters be 1/4 of the year?  Isn't the end of march nearly 4 months?  Making it 1/3 of the year?  Of course that's assuming it began in January.  Soooo...not so insane after all is it?

[ryos]

wouldn't the quarters be 1/4 of the year?  Isn't the end of march nearly 4 months?  Making it 1/3 of the year?  Of course that's assuming it began in January.  Soooo...not so insane after all is it?

March is the third month of the year. At the end of March, three months of 2008 will have elapsed, or a quarter of a year.

Fiscal years are pretty weird IMO, but then, most concepts in finance are mysterious and hard to grasp. Q1 2008 isn't even in 2008. It starts 10/1/2007 and ends 12/31/2007. Q2 2008 is 1/1/2008 to 3/31/2008. Wiki link.

So, when Ambrosia announced that Aquaria/Mac would be released in Q1 2008, they were saying it would be released by December 31 in 2007. I don't think that's what they actually meant, hence my aside. I suppose they could have been speaking in regular quarters and not financial quarters, but the "Q#" notation typically denotes fiscal quarters rather than sane ones.

[Alec]

The reality is that it'll be out when its done.

There's still a lot of annoying picky details to deal with.

[ryos]

...which is why Ambrosia doesn't traditionally announce release dates for their products. I was frankly a little surprised when they did for Aquaria.

[Alec]

...which is why Ambrosia doesn't traditionally announce release dates for their products. I was frankly a little surprised when they did for Aquaria.

Well, they've been trying to change things up. Like their image and approach, I think.

i.e. How they changed their logo. (now its practically invisible)

But yeah, they have high standards and it'll take time to meet all of them.

[Gnerma]

AMD/ATi have added in driver fixed aspect ratio scaling in the 8.3 catalysts they released today. The same rule applies though, you need a digital interface to your display.

Digital Panel GPU image scaling

This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new setting that allows users to enable GPU accelerated scaling for Wide aspect LCD displays. The new setting Maintain aspect ratio improves the display resolution image quality when scaling is enable by maintaining the wide panel aspect ratio (stops the image from looking distorted)

[Hiro]

Um, cool. I'll have a look but I don't think I'm using a digital interface...

And still, a native widescreen would be cooler.  Keep at it Alec (And Derek, if you have anything to do with making the widescreen).

[Gnerma]

Yeah, I'm just following up on something I wasn't too clear on earlier in the thread. I'm eagerly awaiting the widescreen patch as well.

[dg10050]

Well, I just stumbled across this thread after being absent from the forum for a while. This is awesome news. This'll definitely be worth a replay of the game.

[Aërendyll]

I'm definitely looking forward to this, so I can play this game on the laptop I'm going to buy next year. Laptops are all widescreen in here and that laptop'll be more powerful than the computer on which I play Aquaria right now, so I'd love to get a fullscreen version.

Be honest: this game needs to be played fullscreen.

[iisdev]

Somehow I totally overlooked this thread in my weekly check-to-see-if-the-patch-is-out visits. Apparently I missed all of the great progress and screenshots! I just wanted to say thank you Alec for continuing to work on it.