Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 11th Mar 2003 19:00 UTC, submitted by Mike Janger
Mike Janger writes: "What is Open Croquet? Alan Kay (one of the inventors of Smalltalk, one of the fathers of object oriented programming, conceiver of the laptop computer, inventor of much of the modern windowing GUI, etc.) is working on it. But what IS it? Have you guys looked into it?" I downloaded its 90 MB late last night. It's an 'academic' project featuring a futuristic OS 3D environment running through the Squeak environment on Windows or Mac. It requires a supported 3D accelerator (however, it didn't work with my Voodoo5 in hardware mode so it was painfully slow).
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After browsing the documentation .pdf file, OC looks interesting (exciting, actually), but I'm still confused... how to you run an application, like that 3D game? Do you click on the X? Do you walk into the picture and it runs automagically? Do you click on the portion of the picture you can see?
What are those pictures of people? Users? Image files? Portals to another person's computer?
And what's with that penguin?!? I am *NOT* going to be portrayed as a penguin! No, I haven't got anything against penguins, per se, but if I'm gonna be visually portrayed as *any* animal, it's going to be a WOLF! No if's, and's, or but's about it!
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