Croquet Project Releases Initial Developer Release

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 12, 2004 @02:02AM from the grease-for-squeakers dept.

kourge writes "Croquet Project previously has been slashdotted. Today, Croquet Project released its initial developer release, codenamed 'Jasmine.' Although it isn't a finished product, it still is complete enough for developers to develop in Croquet. Croquet itself is written in Squeak, a branch of the Smalltalk language. Please remember to download Croquet via BitTorrent, which provides faster speeds and won't overload the server." The idea is ambitious: An OpenGL-based "complete development and delivery platform" delivering "shared telepresence, shared authorship of complex spaces and their contents, and shared access to network-deliverable information resources" is only part of it. Croquet's license is blessedly simple, too.

3 of 176 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Neat Admin Graphics? by grunt107 · 2004-10-12 02:09 · Score: 4, Funny

I'd like the admin tool icon to be a mallet, and kicking users off should be the users 'ball' being whacked thru the 'exit' wicket.
Re:Corquet License by ceeam · 2004-10-12 02:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Does not beat DWTFYW license (my fave):

http://sam.zoy.org/projects/COPYING.WTFPL

(Pioneered by WindowMaker?)
Re:I'm afraid of new languages by julesh · 2004-10-12 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny

How does it handle run time exceptions, like sticky wickets?

That's actually a bowl-time exception. The bowler tripping the batsman over is a run-time exception.