What.
3DTop is a study into the usefulness of a three dimensional GUI (Graphics User Interface). 
For too long have we denied ourselves the freedom that is only offered by 3D games. A 2D
Desktop is all well and good for simple procedures, but after a while it can make you feel 
cramped and limited by what you can do. As technology advances, so too should the basics of 
our software, after all, everyone who uses a Windows OS, or even a GUI within Unix depends 
on their desktop for the vast majority of functions they will ever use.
In short, 3DTop uses the icons that are present on your normal desktop and represents 
them in 3 dimensions instead. This approach enables you to fly around your desktop, 
change the shape of the icons and arrange or drag them in 3D also
In addition you can create coloured spotlights, paintings (bitmaps), background and floor 
textures, clocks, flags (shortcuts) and whatsoever the future may bring.
We are already developing plug-ins to use within 3DTop to further increase 
 its functionality.


In the end what you can expect is a program with straightforward (and therefore fast) OpenGL-based 
graphics that doesn't mess with your computer's settings, doesn't change the 
registry-settings in any way and is a seriously cool way to view your desktop.

How.
  Copy or extract 3dtop.exe to your desktop and double-click on 3dtop.exe. That's 
  it, when you start the program for the first time "Icon3d.dat" will 
  be created and is used to store 3DTop-latest-settings.
  If everything is to your satisfaction and you like it, put a shortcut of "3DTop.exe" 
  in your "startup"-program group. After a few days or so (or maybe minutes) 
  you'll want nothing else.

Now.
3DTop is available for 10 Euro's at www.3dtop.com.
This version of April 1999 is a demo-version. It has full functionality but after two weeks of use
this version will not load the desktop out of icon3d.dat again. The only thing that remains to do 
is to delete icon3d.dat and start over again or buy the program.

Contact.
All information is available at www.3dtop.com.

Hardware-requirements.
OpenGL-accelerated video-card highly recommended !