SDK 1.9.3 is out!

Announcement
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Added

  • Simulator: limit number of open file handles to match hardware
  • CMakeLists files provided for all C examples
  • Document performance considerations around floating point operations in Inside Playdate with C

Changed

  • fileplayer now leaves file closed until data is needed

Fixed

  • Launcher: Fixes a problem that would sometimes cause an new game to animate in over top of an existing game
  • Launcher: Fixes an issue that could sometime cause an unwrap animation to be out of sync with the audio
  • Launcher: Fixes a visual glitch that could occur when the A button was rapidly pressed as the Launcher was starting up
  • Correct support info in Inside Playdate with C

As always, you can update your SDK on macOS by clicking "Check for SDK Updates…" under the Simulator's app pull-down menu. On Windows and Linux, please visit http://play.date/dev and download the new installer. (We are working on update solutions for Windows and Linux.)

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Wanted to let you know that when I download the latest SDK build for Windows it gives me build version 1.9.2

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Sorry to hear that. Can you let me know what country you're in?

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I’m also having the same problem as @borsjt. I’m living in Norway.

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When you get a chance please try it again. We've had some issues with our CDN caching 302 redirects when it should be so I have to purge the CDN cache for updates to work.

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It works for me now!

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Just gave it another try, but I’m still getting 1.9.2

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Here's a direct link you can use

https://download.panic.com/playdate_sdk/Windows/PlaydateSDK-1.9.3.exe

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Apologies, this is the first time I try this on this machine, so this might be a basic question!

It looks like the 1.9.3 tools shipped for Mac OS are x86_64 only? I ask because the rest of the tools (simulator, etc) seem to be universal builds, and it looks like when I try and run make in the C_API examples, I can't open in the simulator because of x86_64 vs AArch64 errors on an AArch64 Mac.

file /usr/local/playdate/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2019-q4-major/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc
arm-none-eabi-gcc: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Error in the simulator:

dlopen(.../Developer/PlaydateSDK/C_API/Examples/Hello World/HelloWorld.pdx/pdex.dylib, 0x0006): tried: '.../Developer/PlaydateSDK/C_API/Examples/Hello World/HelloWorld.pdx/pdex.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64e'))
dlopen(/System/Library/Extensions/AGXMetalG13X.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AGXMetalG13X, 0x0115):

EDIT: I was able to resolve this by replacing my x86_64 conda environment (Which included tmux) with an arm64 one. Apologies!

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Does the SDK 1.9.3 simulator update and website link work on MacOS? I tried to download and upgrade, but the simulator says it is still version 1.9.2.

After supposedly downloading and installing the latest version of the SDK.

$ date -u "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000"
2022-03-30 11:04:28 +0000
$ uname -vm
Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Tue Feb 22 21:10:41 PST 2022; root:xnu-7195.141.26~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

$ ls $PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH/..
PlaydateSDK		PlaydateSDK-1.9.0	PlaydateSDK-1.9.1	PlaydateSDK-1.9.2

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I've no clue when it comes to Macs but it seems like you just need to update your path variable.

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To what? After supposedly installing 1.9.3 there is not PlaydateSDK-1.9.3 directory. Last time I installed, PlaydateSDK pointed to the right version, so there was no reason to modify the path.