Testing summary: Saturday 25 June 2011 - Auckland, NZ Who: Abishek, Josie, baby Oliver, Tabitha Two sections - AU98 build test for Jerry and 11.2.0 release candidate build 870 test for Daniel Drake *
au98 on two XO-1.5s - Ivy running 98 OLPC-AU 0.84.31 Q3807 wireless 9.70.7.p0 and Shadow running 98 OLPC-AU 0.84.31 Q3A62 wireless 9.70.7.p0 Music painter After loading several existing compositions and making a small, new composition, the playback speed slows and quality degrades, although the speed slider is set to full. However, switching out of Music painter and back restores its performance for the same open composition. Paint - it appears to halt when converting a drawing to black-and-white (some feedback would be good). Scratch seems fast on XO-1.5 (perhaps used to using it on XO-1.0). Save to Journal works. Maze works Record works Memorize works Speak 18 works, and the robot can answer questions which is great. Record 86 works. It would be good to be able to adjust mic levels in Record. Arithmetic - on difficulty 10 (easiest?) was surprised by "5-9". We had a ten year old and she wasn't sure what to do with that, put 4. Can't see a way to not have negatives. We let one XO-1.5 go to sleep on first restart (hadn't even named it yet) and it froze. Cursor does not respond nor does keyboard. Restarted and played with it. Let it go to sleep again and same problem - keyboard and cursor not responsive. This was probably Shadow which is a prototype and has some hardware issues with suspend and resume, with power saving turned off, it is stable. ***** os870 on two XO-1.0s - "Twilight" build 870 0.92.2 Q2E45 wireless firmware 5.110.22.p23 and "Shrek" build 870 0.92.2 Q2E45 wireless firmware 5.110.22.p23 Record 92 - has new buttons for image capture, video and audio! The black outline makes them much more clear, great improvement. When you record video or audio the start button is in the centre but the end button is to the left, this requires you to move the cursor which means you might record more than you wanted while you navigate to the stop button. It would be good to be able to adjust mic levels in Record. Implode works Maze 9 works Speak 25 - when first starting there is a polite "please type something", lovely. Robot cannot answer basic questions. Can change pitch and rate. Can change eyes and mouth. Note that the Speak in the Australian build does have a working robot. Clock - is the "nice" clock numberless to help kids learn to read the time without the numbers? Digital clock has a cute colour coded display that appears to show time as percentage of a bar. Display time in full letters does not fit on the screen so at "12:27:30AM" all you can read is "twenty-seven minutes past m" because it aligns too far to the right. Display weekday and date moves the writing to the centre which means you can read it all :-) and the colour display for hours, minutes and seconds seems to carry through, but the red colour is used again for day and date which might be better in another colour. Talking clock is a bit odd when it says "twenty nine minutes past midnight am"; it would make more sense if it said "twenty nine minutes past twelve am", but then "twenty nine minutes to one am" does work. Overall this is a nice activity (I had a digital watch given to me by my parents when I was six and had to learn to read analogue clock at teachers college which was a bit embarrassing). Memorize works, tested all 3 preconfigured games and also created a game, played it successfully. Abacus 19 - broke it! managed to get the beads to fall off the bottom of the abacus by changing the factor. Changing rows to 1 and then increasing fixes it but reset button does not. This was weird enough that I retested it at home. Messed with all the settings in create your own abacus and broke it again. You have to move beads first then change the base or factor, eventually it breaks. Photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/I0HWYKevr1rtGTXiBs0ZPQ?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zsttNfXK6RiSd_D5vqn9EA?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/k_MrWd8lDRTUPyHdRJO72Q?feat=directlink Paint 34 - massive improvements since last time tested. Image importing works, as does manipulation like resizing and flipping. Can change the fill and outline colours of shapes - yay! and can change the brush size - yay! Really happy with performance of this activity and all its new features. Tamtam mini - works Pippy - played some examples successfully Ruler - surprised no inches, but happy to see the right measurement units being used Calculator - inverse of a number is misleadingly shown as, for example, 4.5-1, in the results pane, where "-1" is not a superscript. Thanks Tabitha
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