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bOOzo · Nov 30, 2002, 05:14 AM

Originally posted by bbxstudio:

Not with this one... that'll be in conjunction with the upcoming new BBX for OSX stuff. I finally just acquired a kickass package with immense storage, super-high bandwidth and unlimited traffic, but I haven't had a chance to pop a single page online yet. Been experimenting for a year and I've got some seriously cool **** happening behind the scenes, stuff like nothing I've ever seen before (it's true)... now if only I could get some time to work on it.

A site launch without at least a preview of an upcoming kit would be anticlimatic, so I'm waiting until I get my **** together on one of these OSX designs I'm tinkering with. I'm split between 4 designs right now: Miraikane (which is a silver+dark+angular design to follow up Mercury) and something I haven't named yet (which is a very clean but slick silver+white+curved design) and a hybrid of the two (which looks like Aqua wrapped in an Audi TT) and one based on my prototype BBXstudio website look&feel (which looks like magnesium with a neon bluegreen underlite)... too many cool ideas, not enough freakin' time... aaarrrggghh!!!

What I'm really dying to do is a nice dark design, but this unchangable text colour issue in OSX makes that a waste of time.

Sounds like you got many cool ideas, if you feel like it I'd be happy to help you make some of them.

How is tha package comming along?

nycdunz · Nov 30, 2002, 07:49 AM

woohoo! nice work max! William i'm very excited about all your new themes/overlay kits you are workin on for jaguar, i cannot wait to see em!!! i am going psycho here waiting for what you have in store for us, and as for the bbx theme, i cannnot wait! please release it soon, i'm dying for this...

)) i love you guys! MAX AND WILLIAM BART!!!!!!

mrfrost · Nov 30, 2002, 01:22 PM

Where will we be able to read about the release first? In this thread perhaps?

bOOzo · Nov 30, 2002, 02:06 PM

Originally posted by Mr_Frost:
Where will we be able to read about the release first? In this thread perhaps?

Here probably. I'll update my homepage at the same time I think.

bbxstudio · Nov 30, 2002, 02:20 PM

Almost done... just relax. Just sewing up all the links, popping the linked files online, and 1 desktop graphic to build - that's it. I'll send it back to Max to make sure he's happy and he'll be the one to release it.

You'll have it before the weekend's out for sure.

mrfrost · Nov 30, 2002, 02:31 PM

Originally posted by bbxstudio:
Almost done... just relax. Just sewing up all the links, popping the linked files online, and 1 desktop graphic to build - that's it. I'll send it back to Max to make sure he's happy and he'll be the one to release it.

You'll have it before the weekend's out for sure.

That is great news, I have been booting my iBook in OS9 with the BBX Mercury theme for over a week now just to get used to the feel again.

chezpaul · Nov 30, 2002, 02:49 PM

R the icons that R going to be released the same as the ones on the bbx web site ? There R missing a few.. so I guess not... I answered my question.
They're a little too ... bbx-y for me.... What if Mr Snowman (Snow icon guy) made some bbx icons.. now that would B the perfect symbiosis I've seen on the mac in a while... ;-)

SwarmyCurve · Nov 30, 2002, 03:26 PM

ahhhhhhh cant wait.

There's nothing quite like a big new theme | icon release.

tiffer17 · Nov 30, 2002, 03:33 PM

i cant wait! this will probably be the best theme out there! thanks alot max and william!

swiz · Nov 30, 2002, 04:14 PM

OMG, "Theme Geeks�" is going to become a new Forum topic Im sure

. I'll have the highest post count in there, cause I am one too !

Can someone make one of those little countdown apps like they did for Jaguar for the release of BBX Mercury? Oh, guess not, we doont know the release date. Shite!! I guess its back to hitting the reload button in Chimera every three seconds on Max's homepage

bOOzo · Nov 30, 2002, 04:31 PM

I'm glad all of you are so eager to try it out! I promiss that it wont take a minute longer than necessary to release it, as soon as I get it

nycdunz · Nov 30, 2002, 06:44 PM

aww yeah, you know what this feels like? it feels like the day before new years, where everyone is waiting til midnight for a big event!

i'm so happy, i can't wait to see this theme, i had my eye on this theme for the longest time but it was only for os9... now for jaguar!

great work the both of you guys!

NetworkShadow · Dec 1, 2002, 11:23 AM

Originally posted by bbxstudio:

Not with this one... that'll be in conjunction with the upcoming new BBX for OSX stuff. I finally just acquired a kickass package with immense storage, super-high bandwidth and unlimited traffic, but I haven't had a chance to pop a single page online yet. Been experimenting for a year and I've got some seriously cool **** happening behind the scenes, stuff like nothing I've ever seen before (it's true)... now if only I could get some time to work on it.

A site launch without at least a preview of an upcoming kit would be anticlimatic, so I'm waiting until I get my **** together on one of these OSX designs I'm tinkering with. I'm split between 4 designs right now: Miraikane (which is a silver+dark+angular design to follow up Mercury) and something I haven't named yet (which is a very clean but slick silver+white+curved design) and a hybrid of the two (which looks like Aqua wrapped in an Audi TT) and one based on my prototype BBXstudio website look&feel (which looks like magnesium with a neon bluegreen underlite)... too many cool ideas, not enough freakin' time... aaarrrggghh!!!

What I'm really dying to do is a nice dark design, but this unchangable text colour issue in OSX makes that a waste of time.

Sounds cool! I'm looking forward to that too. Will it be in flash? Since that's about the only thing I don't know how to do yet, as far as webdesign, I really enjoy seeing cool Flash sites. The scripting really isn't my thing, but I hope to learn that some time.

bbxstudio · Dec 1, 2002, 04:47 PM

99% there kids... just waiting for Max to pop the new logo into the theme and tweak the info and away we go -

I'm busy busy for the rest of the day/night however, so it looks like tomorrow before I'll be spitting out the final .dmg

Sorry for the delay kids - not long now

mrfrost · Dec 1, 2002, 04:50 PM

Originally posted by bbxstudio:
99% there kids... just waiting for Max to pop the new logo into the theme and tweak the info and away we go -

I'm busy busy for the rest of the day/night however, so it looks like tomorrow before I'll be spitting out the final .dmg

Sorry for the delay kids - not long now

Good things take time

OwlBoy · Dec 1, 2002, 06:38 PM

Can't wait, I even made a desktop to go with it.

{ click }

-Owl

NetworkShadow · Dec 1, 2002, 07:42 PM

Cool desktop, a Halo fan too hu?

Hay Max I like the new BBX layout for your site. All you need is a banner/logo for your site.

bbxstudio · Dec 2, 2002, 12:01 AM

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Can't wait, I even made a desktop to go with it.

{ click }

-Owl

Halo is a beautiful thing (although I hated driving the warthog). Has anybody tried Metroid Prime for Gamecube? Worth the price of the system IMHO. It's every bit as entertaining as Halo and then some. Probably the slickest game in terms of interface / presentation / stylistic graphics I've ever seen... I'm dying to get some time to play it.

BTW, if you're into Xbox games and you have access to a PC, you should check out the WindowsMediaPlayer interface I did for MechAssault (it's the official one at Xbox.com)... probably one of the coolest animated startup sequences on a skin ever.

Tomorrow for sure on BBX Mercury X. It's a thing of beauty if I do say so myself

Been fun playing (working) in it for the past few days...

rgoer · Dec 2, 2002, 12:57 AM

Originally posted by bbxstudio:
Has anybody tried Metroid Prime for Gamecube? Worth the price of the system IMHO. It's every bit as entertaining as Halo and then some. Probably the slickest game in terms of interface / presentation / stylistic graphics I've ever seen... I'm dying to get some time to play it.

Slightly off-topic, I suppose... but yeah, I'd have to agree about MP. I didn't own a gamecube until two weeks ago, when I saw a kiosk at EB with Metroid running; I punked out and bought one on the spot just to play that game. It's been worth it, though, because you are completely right in every way about how awesome it is in every way. Coincidentally, the money from the first paychecks from my very first job, ever, in junior high school went toward buying the a Nintendo Entertainment System and the original Metroid. I grew up on that game. Later, in high school, they came out with Super Metroid, which I figured would keep the "greatest game ever, period" crown until the end of time. Then I played Metroid Prime, and Super Metroid was dethroned. If you happened to grow up on metroid like I did, or maybe you are just a gaming geek like me, you owe it to yourself to check out Prime. After following SquareSoft over to the Sony camp years ago and happily owning both a PSX and a PS2 I never expected to really support Nintendo again, but I've been pleasantly surprised by the GC so far. And, for the record, MP completely owns Halo.

bOOzo · Dec 2, 2002, 01:40 AM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
Hay Max I like the new BBX layout for your site. All you need is a banner/logo for your site.

Thanks, the site layout comes second to me, I spend most time updating the themes. I'll see if I can whip up a nice logo for it.

On the theme, I just woke up, and if WIlliam sends me the finished package within 2 hrs or so I'll upload it now. If not until later, I'll have to upload it after school, in about 8 hrs or so.

When you have tried the theme, hit me back with some feedback so that I can improve it further.

nycdunz · Dec 2, 2002, 01:55 AM

oooh please willieam upload it to max now so we can use this sexy theme, its killin me, i cant wait much longer for this beautiful kit!

im sure everyone else is feenin for this theme too... good job max and william!

swiz · Dec 2, 2002, 09:48 AM

Originally posted by bOOzo:

When you have tried the theme, hit me back with some feedback so that I can improve it further.

Now you've done it! Your email server is gonna get shutdown if the anticipation in this thread is any indication of the feedback. I think you can expect fruit baskets, stocking stuffers and more after this is released. Now that is what I call feedback

.

mrfrost · Dec 2, 2002, 10:05 AM

Originally posted by swiz:

Now you've done it! Your email server is gonna get shutdown if the anticipation in this thread is any indication of the feedback. I think you can expect fruit baskets, stocking stuffers and more after this is released. Now that is what I call feedback .

Someone should make a "post your BBX screenshot" thread once it's released. Accompanied by the necessary feedback that is.

Now if you'll excuse me...need to do the dishes before Max gets home from school!

bOOzo · Dec 2, 2002, 10:31 AM

Thanks for your kind words

I'm still waiting for william to email me. He is a busy man.

tiffer17 · Dec 2, 2002, 11:35 AM

hey i like that warthog wallpaper.pretty neat.
halo is an awesome game. ive never tried metroid prime, but i might give it a shot some time.

still eagerly anticipating!!!

a holck · Dec 2, 2002, 12:48 PM

tiffer17 · Dec 2, 2002, 01:09 PM

are we gonna get it today?

NetworkShadow · Dec 2, 2002, 01:11 PM

Ya I've got Metroid Prime it's one great game, but I've been more busy playing Unreal and Mechassault on Xbox Live.
Oh any of you Xbox guys want PanzerDraggon Orta? Here's my preview of the game: http://www.thegamebrain.net/news/fna...?id=1537184215 (I designed the site)

Well I'll be checking every hour or two today to see if the theme is up yet. lol

Someone should make a "post your BBX screenshot" thread once it's released. Accompanied by the necessary feedback that is.

Sounds good to me! My wallpaper I made will go great with the theme, and I would like to show it off.

bOOzo · Dec 2, 2002, 01:29 PM

Originally posted by tiffer17:
are we gonna get it today?

I'm not sure. If not, you'll get it soon enough. I promiss.
But I saw some screenshots of the package that William sent me, and it's something else!

tiffer17 · Dec 2, 2002, 01:48 PM

OK cool!
I can't wait!

Gatorzx2 · Dec 2, 2002, 01:54 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:

But I saw some screenshots of the package that William sent me, and it's something else!

The suspense!!!!

Lol, I know this will be worth the wait.

SwarmyCurve · Dec 2, 2002, 03:18 PM

I sure hope this will be a .theme file and not .dlta!

Duality 3.1.1 with system 10.2.2 and dlta's don't work so well together. . . Rhapsodized will not work at all for me. ConundrumSoft also recognizes that Duality 4pr3 does not work with system 10.2.2. So, it would seem until a better Duality 4 is released, I won't be able to use Rhapsodized. (if BBX is dlta, I might not be able to use it either)

a holck · Dec 2, 2002, 03:40 PM

Duality 4 is working fine for me under 10.2.2
Havent had any problems at all...

SwarmyCurve · Dec 2, 2002, 03:44 PM

... it is? What version number?

Ill try it again.

bOOzo · Dec 2, 2002, 03:46 PM

Originally posted by SwarmyCurve:
I sure hope this will be a .theme file and not .dlta!

Duality 3.1.1 with system 10.2.2 and dlta's don't work so well together. . . Rhapsodized will not work at all for me. ConundrumSoft also recognizes that Duality 4pr3 does not work with system 10.2.2. So, it would seem until a better Duality 4 is released, I won't be able to use Rhapsodized. (if BBX is dlta, I might not be able to use it either)

BBX is .dlta. I'm using 10.2.2 with ms3 and I have no problem switching themes whatsoever. I know that 3.1.1 wont switch dlta, but I don't know why though..

SwarmyCurve · Dec 2, 2002, 03:49 PM

Ugh. I read that Duality 4 doesnt work and I believe it without trying. Stupid me. I must be under BBX fever.

Sorry for the previous posts.

bbxstudio · 04:12 PM

Done - Just sent Max the final .dmg... now it's up to him. Just try to be understanding if it's totally fuzzed - I'm going on zero sleep.

Re: .dlta vs. .theme format -

I personally can't the preview release of Duality4 working properly, and I think it was pretty bizarre that Conundrum decided to abandon the .theme format - I would have liked to have seen support for it continue. I'm really not up on what the differences between the 2 are, however... all I know is Duality4 is messy. I've been building all of my testbed themes in .theme format and switching with Duality 3 with no probs.

Let's just settle on a standard and go, for crying out loud.

chiknmac · Dec 2, 2002, 04:10 PM

So is it coming out tonight? I'm getting a little too excited about this theme. I've been checking this page every hour. I'd like to thank Max and William in advance for the best theme on OS X.

Ahh. I hope it comes out tonight. I want to see BBX in all its glory before I go back to school tomorrow.

bbxstudio · Dec 2, 2002, 04:11 PM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
Ya I've got Metroid Prime it's one great game, but I've been more busy playing Unreal and Mechassault on Xbox Live.
Oh any of you Xbox guys want PanzerDraggon Orta? Here's my preview of the game: http://www.thegamebrain.net/news/fna...?id=1537184215 (I designed the site)

Well I'll be checking every hour or two today to see if the theme is up yet. lol

Sounds good to me! My wallpaper I made will go great with the theme, and I would like to show it off.

Dying for Orta! Tried Splinter Cell? Man, is that one fun. I'm waiting until the new year to jump onto Live, though.

OT again

Love of stylish video games and interfaces go hand-in-hand I guess.

chezpaul · Dec 2, 2002, 04:13 PM

Yeah.. Duality 3.1.1 doesn't see every theme and Duality 4 ms3 as a preference pane isn't even seen by my computer. The instal works and everything but then nothing so I downloaded the Dualityt 4 ms3 as an Application... Seems to work fine this way...

U know what would be a good idea ?

To release BBX under another topic cause I'm dead tired of checking this thread every 3 hours... ;-)

wreks · Dec 2, 2002, 05:04 PM

Originally posted by Gatorzx2:
The suspense!!!!

Lol, I know this will be worth the wait.

man.. you guys are so excited about this theme I can't help but think you're setting yourselves up for disappointment.

Gatorzx2 · Dec 2, 2002, 05:12 PM

Originally posted by wreks:

man.. you guys are so excited about this theme I can't help but think you're setting yourselves up for disappointment.

Its all for good times. Besides with the talent that is working on this theme I don't think there will be any disappointment.

NetworkShadow · Dec 2, 2002, 05:13 PM

I also have Duality 4 working fine for me under 10.2.2... Never had any problems with it.

Oh and, yay it's done! I'll be checking every 10 min now! lol

a holck · Dec 2, 2002, 05:18 PM

This is quite exciting...

Mediaman_12 · Dec 2, 2002, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by a holck:
This is quite exciting...

someone neads to get out more.....

bOOzo · Dec 2, 2002, 05:47 PM

I got it from William, I have a problem though, the background wont show up in the dmg.. Can someone tell me the process of having backgrounds on a dmg?

SwarmyCurve · 05:59 PM

Thanks for the hard work and speedy delivery.

Dace · Dec 2, 2002, 05:56 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
I got it from William, I have a problem though, the background wont show up in the dmg.. Can someone tell me the process of having backgrounds on a dmg?

As far as I know dmg work the same as folders, meaning in "Show View Options" you have to select the picture that will display in the background and the pic must be within the dmg of course. Some start the name of the pic with a "." to make it invisible

smeger · Dec 2, 2002, 06:02 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
I got it from William, I have a problem though, the background wont show up in the dmg.. Can someone tell me the process of having backgrounds on a dmg?

Hey, if you want to IM me or email it to me, I'll set up the background and send it back.

Gorux · Dec 2, 2002, 06:06 PM

You have to make sure the image source is on the Disc Image (wherever you want, but you have to have it on the image). Then you go View > Show View Option. Background > Image.

I guess what I just said is a bit too obvious to forget it

I find it very cool that there is so MUCH angony/stress/happyness in the air all because of that little thing. It makes me want to hug both of you guys, and Steve Jobs.

Can't wait to see BBX on my screen.