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Title: Absolute rubbish...
Post by: blobrana on April 05, 2004, 04:48:47 PM

Hum,
I came across this replacement for Winoze xp...
It`s a `true` 3D desktop !

" Taking the known concept of three-dimensional desktops to its own level. It offers a new way to organise objects on the desktop such a icons and applications."

Of course, it`s rubbish...

But, i think that (given time) it maybe nice alternative to the usual square windose (on any platform, amiga included) GUI...

Perhaps for OS5?
 SphereXP (http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/version.htm)

Title: Re: Absolute rubbish...
Post by: odin on April 05, 2004, 09:55:01 PM

Some screenshots (http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/screenshots.htm).

Seems interesting, can't be arsed to try it out though :-).

Title: Re: Absolute rubbish...
Post by: mikeymike on April 05, 2004, 10:53:55 PM

I tried one (a 3D GUI) for Windows a few years ago.  It was terrible and unusable, and it didn't use hardware acceleration, so performance really sucked.

Title: Re: Absolute rubbish...
Post by: Matt_H on April 06, 2004, 01:39:26 AM

Well it LOOKS kinda cool... but it's probably a huge resource pig... and probably isn't very intuitive. I'd give it a test drive if I had an XP machine, though...

Title: Re: Absolute rubbish...
Post by: Quixote on April 06, 2004, 08:45:04 AM

;-) From the screenshots, it looks more like 2-D application windows floating in a 3-D environment, rather than a truly 3-D desktop.  Still, it is graphically interesting, if not completely useful.