Freeverse

January 29, 2004

ToySight Updated To 1.01

Our Best Of Show winning suite of camera games, ToySight, has been updated to version 1.01.

Changes include:

  • NTSC Television Compatibility. If you are playing ToySight on a television, through a video out on your Mac, you may have noticed that ToySight's video mode runs in PAL mode. If you run the ToySight (NTSC) version of the app, it will run in NTSC mode, which is the normal mode for US Televisions.
  • Support for multiple video inputs. Some users found a problem that if they had TV cards installed on their Macs, this alternate video input was chosen by ToySight instead of their FireWire camera. If you hold down the Shift key when you start up ToySight, it will launch a video setup dialog so that you can select what video source you want to use. It also has the side benefit that you can play about with your camera's settings, such as focus, brightness etc.
  • Startup video mode fixed for 'odd' screen sizes. Previously ToySight may have had problems when first run if your Mac's screen didn't support 800x600 screen resolution. This version will find the next best mode available if 800x600 isn't available on the first attempt. (You can of course change the video resolution that ToySight uses in the Options/Graphics menu in ToySight).
  • Other bug fixes.

An updater for the retail version, as well as a new demo, is available at the ToySight download page.

Posted by Dan Dickinson at January 29, 2004 12:01 PM