------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------ TurboGopherVR 2.1a1 - March 30, 1995 the first alpha-test release... ------------------------------------------------------