[NTLK] Thoughts on Impending Apple Tablet

[Michael J. Hußmann]

Matej Horvat (redjazz_slo at yahoo.com) wrote:

>It's probably because the game is written to place the buttons a few
>pixels away from the bottom of the screen (back then Newton apps were
>written as device-independent because everybody expected to see
>thousands of different Newton devices on the market), but on the
>MP2x00's portrait mode, the buttons are obscured by the button bar (so
>device-independency actually backfires). In landscape mode, it's OK
>because the button bar stays where it was. On the eMate, there's no
>button bar at all, so it works on any screen orientation.

The way I remember this is that it was the other way round -- the
Columbo game was written for a fixed screen size and does not adapt to
the screen sizes of Newton models released later. 

Michael J. Hußmann

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