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- From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
- Subject: Re: What Is BackSpace? (I received the answer)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.033606.10173@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 03:36:06 GMT
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- Stefano wrote me directly in reply to my question:
-
- >BackSpace is a screensaver and background image app that accepts
- >`modules' (there's a raft of them on the archives). BackSpace itself is
- >NOT on the archives because it was developed by a NeXT employee;
- >commercial developers got upset that a NeXT employee was releasing free
- >an app that did the same thing they were trying to charge money for. So
- >the app was removed from the archives. I thought it was going to be an
- >example (in NeXTDevelopers/Demos or /Examples) in 3.0, but I'm still
- >using 2.1 so I can't verify that (waiting for my CD-ROM drive). Anyway,
- >if its not in NeXTDevelopers somewhere, and you'd like a copy, I can
- >NeXTMail it to you.
- >--
- >-
- >Stefano Pagiola
- >Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- >spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
- >spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-
- Yep. It's all in NS3.0 /NeXTDevelopers/Examples/AppKit/BackSpace. Big
- README there too. I compiled it and it works great. Lots of examples came
- with it. NeatO! As the author Samuel G. Streeper says "Sometimes it's kind
- of fun to have your computer zoom through space while you work..."
-
- He's right.
-
-
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- Greg Colello
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
- Stanford University
- gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu
-