Please Billpa don't insult me. you don't know me. We are talking about hobbies not Business here. keep it friendly.
I have alway credited sincerely the fantastic job that HS layout creator did in matter of Artwork.
My "selling" point (selling is funny, because Atomic is totally free, and i even don't force the user to be registered or what ever else to download something) as you say ,is just :
"If you like hyperspin look but don't have a enough powered machine , Atomic is a good alternative".
Where Hyperspin needs a 3ghz machine with 1 giga or more ram and accelerated graphics card , Atomic needs a celeron 800mhz with 256 mega of ram and a standard VGA card. (so don't talk me about hyperspin performances).
I don't try to compete with Hyperspin (anyway i could not, no time for that), i just propose an alternative usable on low end machine. That's all.
Hyperspin is a very nice looking FrontEnd , the layout are really fantastic , And if you have a high end machine you should use it. I don't pretend my Atomic is better or even try to compete. At least on graphic aspect. It is lot of harder to make an animated layout for Atomic than it is for HS.
and last point, The layouts you can see have been done (or ported from HS (
and it ask lot of work , just try you will see...) by AtomicFE community not by me (i made about 40 i think on the 600 or more available).
Did you care about the author of the original artwork you ripped? Do you have the feeling you stoled their work?
Now, if there is legal issue on layout i made
myself . You can prove you have some copyright on artwork. I will change them no problem.
and speaking about my website what duplicate HS Download Section , you didn't noticed it is not my website. i didn't made this website and it is even not hosted by me. If you want see
my web page for the layout download it is here :
http://www.atomicfe.com/Downloads/Layouts_in_progress/download_layout.phpAnd i insist : All Artwork have been reworked for AtomicFe , and not take as is. i repeat :
just try to port one of your layout on AtomicFE and you will see the amount of work. And you will see that what you need to do , is the exact same thing you did from the orignal Artwork you reworked.
Anyway i understand your "frustration" , i had the same feeling what i saw everybody say "waooouh" when they first seen Hyperspin whereas AtomicFe offered the same possibilities (except the spin) since years. Hyperspin marketting is lot better than mine!
I'm not in business , i just propose a FrontEnd for Free and Really for Free . If you like it i'm happy , if you don't like it I understand. Now there is a good choice of very great front end. The Time of pionner is finished.
The only think i wish is that some great front end stay Free.
Ok, now if you have issue with my post , please PM me. Sorry to have post here, i didn't want answer. But I wanted to clarify things for all other.