Seeker Developer Weblog - All Comments

re: The SkyX, OpenGL & ATI

renegade83 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:36:39 GMT

Well that's fine for the people who can choose the hardware that comes with their PCs, but I purchased Seeker and I can't get it to work in any of my computers because they don't have OpenGL 2.x. I recently bought a Toshiba laptop and found out I can't run Seeker on it either. As far as I know it has Intel chips and something called Intel accelerated graphics (?). In every PC I own that I've tried to install this program, it says that I have OpenGL 1.x and I need to upgrade to 2.x. I've tried to update my computer's video drivers to the latest and still comes up with the message. So far it's my first Bisque software that I purchase and I'm not happy with it. Just $100.00 down the tubes.

re: Seeker and other Mac news

Matthew Ota — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:53:18 GMT

I am going to relocate to New Hampshire soon, and will definitely try to make it to NEAF next year, along with Stellafane and the other Northeastern USA astro events

re: Seeker and other Mac news

mucster — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:08:57 GMT

When will the update be available to Seeker for the Space Navigator 3d? Does this update include support for the Space Explorer 3d as well?

Thanks for all your hard work!

re: Seeker and other Mac news

starstone — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:05:48 GMT

David,

I did change the "Preferences" text and display... if not posted already, should be soon.

See you at NEAF!

Richard

re: Seeker and other Mac news

David Illig — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:09:44 GMT

Works again. Thanks! Now I'll be able to advertise for SB by showing it around at NEAIC.

David

re: Seeker and other Mac news

starstone — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:35:22 GMT

Double oops... the hub to the server was accidently shut off over the weekend.

Should work again now... :-)

Richard

re: Seeker and other Mac news

David Illig — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:16 GMT

Oops!

All of a sudden, the Widget doesn't work anymore. That's on two Intel Macs with 10.5.2. It worked for about two days, and now it shows a black display area, sometimes with a question mark. Does it depend on a server somewhere that might be down?

David

re: Seeker and other Mac news

starstone — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:19:37 GMT

Ah shucks! I'm glad you liked it. We put a lot of thought about what to put into it, and believe it or not, quite a bit of thought about what to leave out on purpose. I wanted to enter it for a design award at this years WWDC, but they don't have a category for Widgets this year... the honeymoon is over I guess... the iPhone is the new hotness.

The preferences text might have made more sense... the original design had something on the other side too; a feature that didn't make the first cut. It gave some balance to the design. It would be easy to get rid of (it's an art modification, no new programming), and I could actually show a little more sky up at the top without it. We'll discuss it internally.... that's why we are calling it Beta ;-)

Richard

re: Seeker and other Mac news

David Illig — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:02:58 GMT

Dr. Dave -- Of course you're typing on a Mac. Who in their right mind uses Windows when the don't *have* to!?

Richard -- (for identification purposes, I'm Mr. "FireWire at NEAF 2006." Here's what I wrote about your new Widget on the Bisque Mac Yahoo group last night:

"Nicely done, thanks!

"Of course, I have a suggestion. It seems that the most widely used means
of setting Widget preferences is the use of the italicized lower-case i in
a circle that is hidden until the cursor passes over it. I would suggest that
you adopt this convention because TheSky X Widget is beautifully designed,
and has great symmetry that is thrown off by the "i" and the word
"PREFERENCES" (in caps, no less) at the top left. Lose that in favor of the
hidden "i" and it will be greatly improved, IMO.

"The clean, straightforward direction slider is the very definition of
elegance!"

See U next week at NEAF.

Speaking of outside activities at NEAF, my buddy Gerry (Wing Cmdr, pilot, Her Britannic Majesty's Royal Air Force) and I are heading to NYC on Sunday evening. On Monday evening we're going to the Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway to see and hear Les Paul. Les is 93 years old and plays two sets at the club each Monday night! If you don't know who Les Paul is, you're too young to be reading this.

David Illig

re: Seeker and other Mac news

David Toth — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:39:15 GMT

Mt. Fuji is THE place to be, my man ... this time, we're gonna get you to try some exotic stuff!

BTW, I'm typing this on a Mac ... don't fall off your chair Richard ...

Looking forward to working the booth with you next week at NEAF!

Dr. Dave

re: Seeker and other Mac news

starstone — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:09:20 GMT

Mt. Fuji man... I'm counting down the days ;-) I'm not sure the name of the "city", but it's a short drive from Suffern. We never drive back to NYC... I'll see if anyone else has heard of Azuma or wants to try it.

Richard

re: Seeker and other Mac news

msfa — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:14:00 GMT

I wil be at NEAF and will stop by to see the new Mac software and talk to you about it. The iPhone pocket edition gets my vote for development (my business can buy the iPhone, so, why not?).
And the very best sushi place, if you have time while at NEAF, is in Hartsdale, NY at Azuma Sushi. As good as any place in NYC (and I've been to all the good ones) and rivals anything I went to in Japan...worth the 1/2 hour drive from Suffern. Call for reservations...

re: New Products and MacWorld!

trimil — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:52:19 GMT

This is good news from my perspective as a Mac user since 1986. My small business operates entirely on Macs except for the CNC machines which are on MS-DOS! But even that is going to change as the company is now offering a Linux version of its controls.

I understand that doing real time systems under OS X is no walk in the park, but breaking away from legacy code and the whole serial/parallel I/O model has to be a good thing going forward. It's like cleaning out an overstuffed garage - a pain in the rear to start, and a joy when it's finally done.

re: New Products and MacWorld!

starstone — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:18:46 GMT

Ha ha... ;-)

Yes, TheSkyX will also be available for Windows in the near future. If there is enough demand for a Linux version, it "could" happen ;-)

That's a real tricky question though... Daniel or Steve should address that. For now, let's take it one release at a time ;-)

Richard

re: New Products and MacWorld!

David Toth — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:50:50 GMT

Aaaggghhh, I guess I WILL have to add a Mac to my Desktop!
But I am SURE you'll have a lot of this cuteness in the Windoze and Linux versions too, right Richard? RIGHT RICHARD (Wright)?
Sorry, couldn't resist that!

Dave