[vos-d] VOS apps...

[Lalo Martins]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:28:33 -0700, S Mattison wrote:
>> That's a separate matter altogether, and one that would be cool IMO.  But
>> a windows program running in wine inside VOS would be a "flat" windows
>> program, running in a floating billboard, not a real "VOS application".
> 
> What WOULD constitute a "real VOS application"? Certainly no program
> written for Linux OR Windows. Or PPC or BeOS for that matter.
> 
> I'd say the first "real" VOS app would be a program written using
> purely 3d primitives, with a built-in VOS scripting language, that
> emulated the usefulness of any of these programs we've spoken of
> already.
> 
> THAT would be cool. IMO.

But that's more or less what we're talking about, at least for some of
those cases if not all.  A properly 3d IM app using libgaim wouldn't be
too hard, for example.

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