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post #1 of 22
3/11/02 at 3:07pm
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This absolyely rocks. Installed in a second and works almost perfectly... a few icons looked messed up. On my iBook 600Mhz with 8mb vram its perfectly smooth.

Heck, it even supports scroll wheel!!

<a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/eoh2k2/" target="_blank">http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/eoh2k2/</a>
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post #2 of 22
3/11/02 at 6:34pm
Nice! That's even tighter than FSV for linux. Pretty sweet!
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post #3 of 22
3/11/02 at 7:00pm
Im running it on my Dual USB iBook 500 and its slow as hell <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />

Any idea on speeding it up?
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post #4 of 22
3/11/02 at 8:17pm
Make sure the fog is disabled along with antialiasing.

On my 550mhz PowerBook G4 it's really quite decent speed-wise. Very fun to play around with, I just found out I can leave folders open and have multile branches out of the main disc thing. I'll take a screenshot and post it.

-Y

Edit: Here's the screenshot <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/tcbartlett/3dosx.jpg" target="_blank">here.</a>

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post #5 of 22
3/12/02 at 7:36pm
can someone post a link to the download page? I could not find it. Look really cool thogh. I have always thoght a 3D finder would be cool. i did not think of it like this thoght. but like Aqua but you could rotate around the windows and walk to multiple desktops and other users.
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post #6 of 22
3/12/02 at 9:51pm
[quote]Originally posted by Michaelm8000:
<strong>can someone post a link to the download page?</strong><hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/eoh2k2/3dosx/download.html" target="_blank">http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/eoh2k2/3dosx/download.html</a>
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post #7 of 22
3/12/02 at 10:01pm
[quote]Originally posted by starfleetX:
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<a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/eoh2k2/3dosx/download.html" target="_blank">http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/macwarriors/eoh2k2/3dosx/download.html</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

5 minutes earlier you would have saved me the trouble of downloading and building it myself. BTW, when I did, it had 96 build warnings. And the product was slow as molasses. The real finder seemed fast in comparison. I probably did something wrong. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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post #8 of 22
3/15/02 at 1:46am
It was fun for about 5 minutes.

Pretty cool idea thou..
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post #9 of 22
3/15/02 at 1:52am
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the ironic thing is that this 3D File browser, when you right click a folder, lets you even apply Label Colors!!!

Do a 'get info' on a file.... pretty funky dialog box comes up. A bit glitchy, but fun.
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post #10 of 22
3/15/02 at 11:37am
Great app., word of caution to those of you who run slow machines such as my iMac 350, do not use full screen mode, it will run horribly slow and you will want to pull your hair out. 40 percent mode works just fine though.
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post #11 of 22
3/15/02 at 1:05pm
What's the usability in this? I prefer Snax or even the OsX finder. Looks clumsy too
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post #12 of 22
3/16/02 at 8:54am
[quote] the ironic thing is that this 3D File browser, when you right click a folder, lets you even apply Label Colors!!! <hr></blockquote>

why is that ironic?
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post #13 of 22
3/16/02 at 10:18am
because the real finder doesn't.
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post #14 of 22
3/17/02 at 3:35pm
I don't know how cool or practical this will be in day to day use, but it is a great idea and I think a great alternative for people who have a difficult time "seeing" the dimensionality of the file system....like the 50% of the population who don't like computers avd the 50% of the computer users who use fewer than 20 applications.

Kids now are as removed from the "desktop" analogy as we are from the "horsepower" analogy.
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post #15 of 22
3/17/02 at 3:45pm
I want the Jurassic Park computer UI
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post #16 of 22
3/17/02 at 9:27pm
[quote]Originally posted by applenut:
<strong>I want the Jurassic Park computer UI </strong><hr></blockquote>

If you mean FSN, you might like this:
<a href="http://www.nekochan.net/images/sgifsn.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nekochan.net/images/sgifsn.jpg</a>

Yes, it's a real program. I ran it on my Indigo for a while. Pretty cool stuff
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post #17 of 22
3/17/02 at 10:34pm
That is almost alarmingly cool. :eek:
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post #18 of 22
3/20/02 at 9:49am
So does Command-N make a new window?

Anyone else here tried this? This thing looks like it is going to go places.
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post #19 of 22
3/20/02 at 11:06am
The last time I saw that UI, it was a Microsoft concept for a future version of Windows.

[quote]Futurescape in 3D
Yet another user interface is percolating in the labs. Daniel Robbins of Microsoft Research previewed a new 3D environment that's the latest version of an interface Microsoft has been testing for years. It's tempting, but not really fair, to call it "Bob 3D." Like the short-lived cartoonish interface, the 3D environment attempts to create a virtual room. The documents you work on -- spreadsheets, word processing files -- hang suspended in virtual air, and you click to call them to you. Instead of layering documents on each other, the documents underneath shrink to the background and hover on the digital horizon. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/14/winhec.idg/[/QUOTE" target="_blank">]http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/14/winhec.idg/<hr></blockquote></a>
Also at: <a href="http://www.cadenceweb.com/1999/0799/industrywatch0799.html" target="_blank">http://www.cadenceweb.com/1999/0799/industrywatch0799.html</a>

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post #20 of 22
3/24/02 at 1:49am
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ybot:
[qb]Make sure the fog is disabled along with antialiasing.

How do you do that?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ybot:
[qb]On my 550mhz PowerBook G4 it's really quite decent speed-wise.

On mine, it's 'slow as mollasses'.
But the concept looks brilliant!!

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post #21 of 22
3/24/02 at 7:28pm
One thing I've noticed about different 3-D file viewers is that they seem to use a lot of horizontal screen space, but not much vertical space. This is just like the dock. I think, with a little work, this 3-D file viewer could be fit into the dock, effectively giving the dock a depth of layers, rather than the ever expanding and shrinking dock we have now. Also, different items could be sorted at different layers. Documents in one, apps in another, ect....
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post #22 of 22
3/26/02 at 7:53pm
Um, I think I am going to stick with the finder. The whole 3d platter concept is kinda bogus.
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