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TurboGopherVR 2.1a4 (FAT Binary) - June 3, 1995
- Two version of the fat binary - the version
TurboGopherVR 2.1a3 Fat/881 makes direct FPU
calls for speed on 68K Macs and the other version
(TurboGopherVR 2.1a3 Fat) will run on Macs that
do not have FPUs. On a non-FPU Mac, you will
have to be patient... but at least you can see
the scenes.
- This version understands how to parse Gopher+
+3D: attributes for location, orientation, and
scale, so the server admin has more control
over how the GopherVR scene is displayed.
- Smoother mouse tracking for PPC Mac when using
the mouse to move through the 3D scene. When you
hold the mouse button down and drag through the
3D scene the amount of motion is proportional to
the distance you have dragged from the location
where the mouse button was originally pressed.
This isn't too noticable on 68K Macs, but is
a big improvement on PowerPC Macs.
- To open items in the 3D scene you now double-click
on the objects. Too many people objected to opening
items by single clicking...
- This version should be significantly more stable
than previous versions since it doesn't mistakenly
free memory that it later access ;-)
- It is possible to pause in mid-flight during the
jump, jump in place, overview, and flight into
new scenes. Hold down the spacebar to pause the
flight motion.
- The version which makes direct 68881 FPU calls
checks exits gracefully when run on a non-FPU
Mac.
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TurboGopherVR 2.1a3 (FAT Binary) - May 23, 1995
- No changes for the PowerPC user, but folks with
68K Macs with FPUs (i.e. 68040s, or 68030s with
68881/68882 floating point unit) can now run
the program. Alas, if you don't have hardware
floating point support, you are still out of luck.
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TurboGopherVR 2.1a3 - May 4, 1995
- Added a feature to make it easier to see the names
of objects in the 3D scenes. The View names
command under the VR menu lets you browse the names
of the GopherSpaceVR objects by using the mouse to
place the pointer over the objects. A popup window
displays the object name, type, and (if available)
it's abstract. This should help with the complaints
that the Names written on the objects are hard to
read at oblique angles and when far away.
- Added a way to go up into the air (and get back
down again) while driving around a GopherVR scene.
Under the VR menu there are now Up and Down
commands. Being up in the air is like walking
around on stilts, so all the old navigation
tools continue to work. Note that you cannot go
underneath the ground no matter how hard you try.
This is for your own safety. There are millions
of gopher tunnels beneath the ground and many
of the gophers moving through the tunnels reach
ballistic speeds. It's dangerous down there.
- Fixed a nasty race condition which occurred when
multiple directory fetches where running
simultaneously. This typically happens when a
Gopher server is slow to respond, and the user
clicks on the icon many times or clicks on
other items. This problem was responsible for many
of the reports of TurbGopherVR crashing when you
quit from the program.
- In previous versions you could jump by clicking on
the ground. In the hands of naive users this is a
dangerous command, so it was removed. You can still
jump forward by with selecting the appropriate option
from the VR menu, or by holding down the option key
while clikcing on the ground or sky. Other power-user
features can be found by reading the Help information
inside TurboGopherVR. Choose the Help option under
the Gopher menu.
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TurboGopherVR 2.1a2 - March 31, 1995
- Fixed bug the prevented downloading Mac binaries
from GopherspaceVR window
- Fixed bug that caused some text files to not have
proper end of line marks if the file was fetches from
GopherspaceVR window
- Changed text placement on 3D icons to make the text
bigger in most cases. This should improve readability.
- Handle the case where no name appears on 3D kiosk now;
scenes with no name are called "empty name"
- When downloading a Mac binary the status window is no
longer buried underneath the Gopherspace VR window
- Strip leading spaces off of item names for display in
GopherspaceVR. Some server admins add spaces to the
front of item names to make them line up in gopher
directory listings. The problem is that this
squeezes the text and makes it tiny and hard to read.
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TurboGopherVR 2.1a1 - March 30, 1995
the first alpha-test release...
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