<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Apologies for the spam, but I need to share a significant milestone today.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The "first playable version" is now running on iPad! Screenshot below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The end of a drag gesture specifies your new direction.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The magnitude of the drag gesture specifies your new speed. For example, dragging half the screen commands speed 12 (in addition to the course change to wherever the drag gesture ended).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A very short drag gesture (tap) is interpreted as firing a torpedo.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m hoping to make a double-tap gesture mean firing phaser (there are SwiftUI issues here).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I expect to have a row of buttons at the right side for other commands and communication stuff. At this time I can’t even turn my shields off, much less repair ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interestingly, CPU usage is _far_ lower on iPad than on MacOS.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So far dogfighting is pretty hard with your finger, but iPads also have bluetooth mouse support.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Instead of a “strategic” screen, I’m thinking of directional signposts at the edge, indicating direction and distance to players and “interesting” planets.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Darrell</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS: Thanks to Dave for fixing the metaservers. Fortunately it let me implement and test the “no metaservers available” code ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><img apple-inline="yes" id="E52976F9-46C0-4BFD-853B-A95CC69A61A3" src="cid:EFE78164-A1B5-45E3-A134-24DD49B5B69A@hsd1.ca.comcast.net." class=""></body></html>