Leave a Review Antikythera Mechanism
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The controls and sliders don’t work. Tapping the +/- does nothing. Tapping the arrows on the calendar does nothing. And I have an iPhone 11. Mist useless app ever.Magicguy42
Developer Response
Hi, Thank you for your review and sorry for your bad experience. Just to confirm: Tapping the +/- rotates the Egyptian Calendar dial in very small increments of just 1 degree so may be hard to notice; the bottom slider controls the speed of rotation and vertical slider pans the device upwards and downwards. If these controls are unresponsive can I kindly suggest you reboot your phone and try again? If not, then please request a refund from Apple. There are many reviews on this app and none of them state that these controls are not working. Thank you.Thank you
In a Getty Museum video it was mentioned there are Antikythera mechanism apps for the iPhone. Thus I came looking for this app. The simulation helps me understand aspects of the mechanism I couldn’t learn from drawings, articles and videos. I finally understand how the moon phase display works. I documented technology for Industry and the military for 20 years; I worked from engineering prints, aerospace assembly drawings, physical prototypes and 3-D computer models to understand and explain mechanisms/processes to our clients. This app is a treasure trove of information. The interior and exterior views are all I could have hoped for. I’ve put this app into a folder labeled Fun, along with an Enigma simulator, which shows you my idea of fun :)Show lessDent De Leon
Developer Response
Thank you SirGreat Programme
The programming is absolutely wonderful and I think the concept is perfect. However, I find the rendering makes reading the dials on both sides very difficult to read. Also, the controls seem a wee bit, make that, pretty sluggish. How about a higher contrast view and a lock on the side of the mechanism that is to be read.Show lessOntman
Developer Response
Hi Ontman, thank you for your feedback. We have noticed that on some iOS devices the markings on the mechanism appear greyish rather than black which may explain the reason you found it a bit difficult to read the inscriptions. In order to rectify this, all you do is pinch to zoom in which will enable the vertical panning slider on the left of the screen. As soon as you swipe up or down on this slider, the grey inscriptions change to the corrected black inscriptions and thus improving legibility. We will also release an update to rectify this and also improve the app taking into account your valued feedback above. Many thanks.