Rather frustrating
If you zoom in to see the movement in more detail you cannot then move the picture up or down in the screen to see what is written at the top and bottom of the front and back.
The rendering is also a misguided attempt to emulate sunlight catching the face of the brass. Unfortunately it leaves the bottom left corner in a shadow.
At £1:99 it’s not expensive and it’s the closest all but a few will get to the real thing. But it could be better and it should give us what’s shown in the screen shots.
Don’t waste your money
Response from developer
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
Response from developer
Thank you Sir
Great Programme
Response from developer
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.
Awesome but...
Response from developer
Jurassicjordan, many thanks for your valued feedback. The problem is that only one build can be created to accommodate all iOS hardware and as we try to update the simulation, add detail and functions which closely represent the original mechanism, the very first devices such as the ipad and ipad 2 struggle to work. This is why we included a notice on the App description page that it may not work on iPad 2 devices and below. The next update will include the rotating planets and although it may require slightly more processing power to run, we will make the upmost to try and make it work on older ipad devices.
