Distant Suns crash on Dec. 24/25 sessions

Posted by proxima | Filed under Uncategorized

If you are experiencing a crash with the new version of DS over the past day or so I was finally able to track it down. (Everything worked fine on the two devices I tested on before release, but I just discovered it failed on the other two that I didn’t test on. Dang.)

It has to do with a special “Christmas Treat” I had added, which expires midnight today (the 25th). So just set your device’s date to the 26th and the app should launch fine. This is technically called a SBPE, or “Stupid Boneheaded Programmer Error”.

The next build should hopefully be out before next Christmas with the fix.

I’ll now go and crawl under my table and sob.

Permalink | December 25th, 2009

4 Responses to “Distant Suns crash on Dec. 24/25 sessions”

  1. edward tighe Says:
    May 1st, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    help, ipad sync problem.
    purchased ipad app on apil 6 (or7).
    sheepishly exchanged machine for 3g
    yesterday; however distant sunes did not
    sync correctly with itunes and has
    disappeared. can you advise?
    thanks.

  2. proxima Says:
    May 10th, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    Nope, don’t know what the issue would be. I have heard that the 3G has had sync problems, so it’s out of my control.

  3. Gary Says:
    August 27th, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Hi
    i got distant sun 2 for my iphone 2g but i thought it was a GPS version, is it or am i doing something wrong? i paid $7 for this app, i noticed the compass icon is not highlighted, is this why and what can i do?

    Thanks Gary

  4. proxima Says:
    August 28th, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    Hi Gary, if by iPhone “2G” you mean the second generation of the iPhone (which was actually the iPhone “3G”…must’ve caused the marketing folks headaches with that), it doesn’t have a compass. Only the iPhone 3GS and above, and the iPad have actual compass hardware. That’s why the icon is grayed out.

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