Hate to bug about this, but it is urgent.

[Bibin]

...Will HWA be in beta stages before December 30th? I'd like to try to get a good build of my game for the TDC Christmas competition with HWA to make scaling the window size a bit nicer.

[Yves]

Yes we will release a beta version of HWA before the end of the month. We planned to release it yesterday but there are some issues we want to fix first.

HOWEVER this will be a BETA version and if I were you I would NOT wait for it for ANYTHING important as some specific features might not work correctly.

[BrandonC]

This is great news!

[Bibin]

This sounds great. Will the HWA version still work with extensions as it does (perhaps some like Mode7 and Perspective will have issues?), but other ones will probably work?

[dustingunn]

clickteam betas have always been pretty stable I dunno

[Jeff]

I believe extensions will need to be updated to take advantage of HWA. That would be a good reason to not base close/important projects on the beta of it.

Like Java it may take a bit to be fully powered up.

[Bibin]

I don't mean to take advantage, but I just mean to work at all.

[Benicle]

Yeah will all existing extensions work and just run as fast as before?

I'd like for people with less high end computers but still fairly good ones to be able to run my game.

[Raylax]

*airfist* yay! Great news.

I was wondering about this HWA, though. Will it literally expand MMF2's access to the computer's memory? That may be entirely the wrong terminology... it's been one of those christmasses. Too jovial to think straight...

Anyway, what I'm asking is:

1) Will the update allow me to run, say... 1000+ actives on screen at once without slowdown? (It's unlikely anything I make will need that kind of thing, tbh)

2) Will it be able to read the coding faster and more efficiently? I'd noticed that if I program something with a ton of code (and don't bother to group it) it skips lines sometimes.

Oh yeah, merry christmas everyone!

[Bibin]

The slowdown would depend on the hardware; if the hardware can support it, then yes, that would be quite possible.