Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the kind words - most of the compliments go of course to
David who built the core of the rendering system (I'm sure he's sitting
right there with a really fat grin on his face ;-) Let us know how it
goes - and, yes, try to get it on the theater screen!

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jerry Bell
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 8:46 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: Croquet alpha release(s?) - speed
> 
> 
> Same result on a 23" display- very very impressive.  This was 
> with the second-fastest video card too.  Also, I drew a small 
> crowd while I was testing it- people seemed interested.
> 
> I'm hoping to drop by and try it out on several machines at 
> once to investigate the P2P aspects a little.  Perhaps 
> they'll even let me put it up on the theater screen.
> 
> Jerry Bell
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: buurtnet [mailto:buurtnet at cistron.nl]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 5:43 PM
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Cc: buurtnet
> > Subject: Re: Croquet alpha release(s?) - speed
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am totally awed......
> > 
> > I just had a nice guy at Apple give me a shot at running 
> Croquet on a 
> > dual 1.25Ghz G4 with Max OS X and a 1600*1024 pixel 22'' 
> > cinema display 
> > (the 1920*1600 was unavailable).
> > I expanded croquet's window to nearly full screen, and 
> started moving.
> > It was so fast, I could hardly move around, I constantly 
> overshot the 
> > place I wanted to move to. Some adjustable mouse/move 
> > preference would 
> > really help, later perhaps an automatic detection?.
> > Although I imported most of the sample objects, ran sound and 
> > video, I 
> > could not slow it down :-)
> > 
> > I assume it is not using the second processor, at least the cpu 
> > perfomance tool indicated one processor mainly idle.
> > I used the carbon 3.4.0Beta2 VM.
> > 
> > What an incredible performance.
> > 
> > It compared favorably to Bryce, a 3d editor.
> > 
> > Thank you Croqueteers, you have really given it your best. 
> > And this is 
> > only (pre)alpha.
> > 
> > Merik
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>