Opencroquet

zymano writes "OSnews has some information about Opencroquet, a 3d operating system worked on by Alan Kay, who also is 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. The OS is a 3D environment running through the Squeak environment on top of another operating system. It requires a supported 3D accelerator. Squeak is an interpreted language similar to Smalltalk. Could be ssslooooww. Way cool screenshot."

I can see how this will become.

[termos]

Mom, mom. My game of HalfLife is running at half the speed on this OS.
That is because the desktop is up with full 3d-acceleration, fog, per pixel lightning, stencil shadows for under the text, realtime ratracer on the taskbar reflecting the desktop at a resolution of 1600x1200.
Oh, okey! ;-)

well

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess I'll finally have to upgrade my 486

ouch....

[Keebler71]

...conceiver of the laptop computer

I hope he had good birthing hips... that sounds uncomfortable.

Misquote

[billybob2001]

When the only tool you have is a Mallet, everything starts looking like balls.

Mine are Blue and Yellow, thanks for asking.

Re:Mirror

[pi radians]

What, are you too good for karma?

Damn elitists!

Re:gayest name for an OS yet = Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

How is croquet worse than the name windows? One is a nice solid club you can whack people with, the other is a piece of glass that breaks easily... oh wait, maybe windows fits perfectly!

Re:ouch....

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Actually, it was a seminal conception of his; the labour was performed by someone else.

Wicket.

[viper21]

Insert witty Wicket joke here.

And what happens if two Croquet machines have packet collisions? Which one gets to make the croquet shot?

-S

I want to see it...

[myLobster]

"Way cool screenshot."
That sort of link is red rag to a bull...
Slashdotted already...

Re:Mirror

[brandonY]

Karma whoring anonymous bastard!

the slashdot effect

[kurosawdust]

I wonder what an incoming slashdotting would look like on a 3D operating system...my vote is for something not unlike the big "charge!" scene in Braveheart

Re:What you say????

[TheShadow]

Because 3D is one more D than 2D... it must be better. :)

YOU FAIL IT!

[Anonymous Coward]

would be karma whore.

Re:mirror of screenshot

[Anonymous Coward]

There is a button to 'disable internet'.
Should we call the FBI?

Re:I can see how this will become.

[psoriac]

...realtime ratracer on the taskbar reflecting the desktop

You kids have it easy, back in my day we called them "mice" and we moved them across mousepads that were uphill in all directions!

Re:Mirror

[neo]

I say we find out who this poster is and give them Karma. No one should get away with this outrage!

Re:Wicket.

[DanCo]

I play, and I love that game! Any game that involves mallets, heavy spheres, bits of pointy metal, stakes, and knocking other player's spheres as far as you can has to be good!

Re:ouch....

[cygnusx197]

forgot linebreaks...
p please
c change
m morphine
c capacity
i I
a am dying.

Re:How can an OS be 3D?

[Tyler Durden]

Yeah, but if the kernel has enough arrays of arrays in its implementation then it might be considered a 3D OS. ;-)

Re:it's a stretch

[TheRaven64]

OK, I didn't RTFA, but...if it runs on top of another OS, it can't really be called an OS itself, can it?

No, the usual term for a program which runs on top of an OS but still seems to want to implement all the features of an Os is 'emacs'.

It's called croquet...

[Anonymous Coward]

...because it makes you want to hit your computer with a mallet.

Actually, I have no idea; I just thought this would be funny to say.

Bah....

[Carter Butts]

This 3D-OS concept is overrated. The future is in user interfaces with non-integer dimension! CantorOS, here we come! :-)

-Carter