From: Michael Snoswell Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: EDUC: Cyber Term Date: 30 Jan 1995 14:59:14 GMT Organization: The University of Adelaide "" wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anybody know whether Cyber Term would be a good candidate for a > final year university project to be based around ? Do you have any > ideas how it could be used ? Do you know when it is due for release ? > > The answers to these questions and more are sought by the distressed > student whose last posting did not seem to appear in the newsgroup ? > > > Your help is appreciated > > Adam Sheppard. Cyberterm is alive and very healthy :-) We have been diligently working towards a release, maybe by mid 95. There is a current limited alpha release but people should really wait as the alpha comes with a Non-Disclosure Agreement and you must register to get it (and we're fussy who we send it too :-) Not a great candidate for a uni project at this point :-( Take a look at the CT home page for more info: http://wattle.itd.adelaide.edu.au/~snoswell/ct.html For those of you wondering, if you're already on the mail list (that's most people who have enquired to me directly) then you'll be notified when the release is announced. An article on CT appeared, I believe, in "Virtual", Diego Montefusco's VR magazine in Jan 95. Also, there was an article in WAVE, the European version of WIRED, in Jan(?)94. The text of the 3 articles on CT which appeared in PCVR Magazine :-( are available at ftp.adelaide.edu.au/cyberterm, although these have been superceeded somewhat by the Web page. For those wondering, "What the hell is Cyberterm anyway???" and who can't read Web pages, it's a 3D based distributed OS for PCs. In its first applications we've written tools in the embedded language, Tcl/CT, for the system to operate as a 3D based BBS, complete with 3D file manager for file up/down loading, chatting, email and games (adventure and action). We've written some artificial life demos too to indicate the power of the system. It runs happily on a 486DX PC standalone. If you want to do networking you need a server, which operates under QNX. We're also adding TCP/IP "awareness" so anyone on the Net with a unix account can connect to our server, CT Central as a demo. We use the RenderWare graphics engine from Criterion, UK (which is pretty awesome!) Hopes this clears things up a bit. Email me at the below address for more info if necessary. cheers Michael Snoswell Cyberterm Project Leader snoswell@wattle.itd.adelaide.edu.au http://wattle.itd.adelaide.edu.au/~snoswell/mjs.html