Bits on Wheels is the first 100% Native BitTorrent client for the Mac. It is completely written in Objective-C and Cocoa. It is also the first client to show a realtime 3D view of your downloads.
Please visit the Forums for all your technical questions, suggestions, bug reports. Don't forget to check out the often-updated 'News' page too !
Please visit the Forums for all your technical questions, suggestions, bug reports. Don't forget to check out the often-updated 'News' page too !
What's New
Version 1.0.6:
New:
- You can now click and rotate/move/zoom the 3D Swarm view ! Use the command/option/control keys while dragging to move/zoom/rotate the view.
- new 3D Swarm representation : Vertical Race ! Peers start at the bottom and raise up as they complete a torrent.
- new 3D tools palette lets you rotate and zoom the 3D view. 3D Options have been moved there.
- IP addresses can now be selected and copied to the clipboard, inside the Peers view.
Fixes:
- endgame was so-so in 105 and seems to be real nice now.
- when rechecking hash, the available pieces weren't re-sorted resulting in 0 piece being downloaded.
- crash when updating the validated graph.
- removed a couple deadlocks.
- crash in race condition.
- visual artefacts while checking hash in 3D swarm view.
- tidying up multi-threading.
- Memory leak when stopping torrents. Another leak with outgoing connexions.
- Better Peer handshaking when peer has 0 piece available.
- Most Panther crashes.
- Many fixes here and there.
Mods:
- modified the pieces ring in the 3d view to be more accurate.
- changed the amount of requested pieces to avoid stalling.
Known Problems:
- Panther only : BoW seems to be incompatible with some APE modules.
Version 1.0.6:
New:
- You can now click and rotate/move/zoom the 3D Swarm view ! Use the command/option/control keys while dragging to move/zoom/rotate the view.
- new 3D Swarm representation : Vertical Race ! Peers start at the bottom and raise up as they complete a torrent.
- new 3D tools palette lets you rotate and zoom the 3D view. 3D more...
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
PPC, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Bits on Wheels User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:77,753 |
| Version Downloads:49,051 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Free |
| Date:19 Nov 2005 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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Bits on Wheels is the first 100% Native BitTorrent client for the Mac. It is completely written in Objective-C and Cocoa. It is also the first client to show a realtime 3D view of your downloads.
Please visit the Forums for all your technical questions, suggestions, bug reports. Don't forget to check out the often-updated 'News' page too !
Please visit the Forums for all your technical questions, suggestions, bug reports. Don't forget to check out the often-updated 'News' page too !
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Brildenlanch reviewed on 12 Jan 2008
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jdoe506 reviewed on 27 Aug 2007
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AppleCrypt Mods reviewed on 01 Jul 2007
STILL looking forward to hearing about the dev of this app.. fingers are crossed :]
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Shame to see this great app die! Be nice for continued dev and maybe UB..
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Corpsecorps reviewed on 07 Apr 2007
Bummer.
I used to follow this closely but the project appears to be COMPLETELY DEAD as of late 2005. Even the forum went south, and this thing is still awfully feature shy and more flash than function.
For me this is still not all that stable and with no work being done, it isn't going to get better.
I'll stick to Azureus which although a bit bloated, gets the job of downloading done fast.
It has WRONGLY been said Azureus is somehow not free or has advertising!
Asureus 3.x with the VUSE GUI has advertising, but it's ALL still FREE and OPEN SOURCE.
Vuse (zudeo) content may have DRM, but the GUI can be turned off to leave Azureus working and behaving like 2.x versions and all code is still under the GPL and actively developed.
NOTE: I HAVE ZIPPO TO DO WITH THE AZUREUS PROJECT.
I was disturbed when VUSE showed up when i upgraded a few days ago.
I simply found the details in the WIKI, including how to turn Vuse off.
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Transmission
Tomato
Azureus
Been there.
This is, by far, the best torrent client.
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Signore Rossi reviewed on 16 Mar 2007
I forgot to place a rating...
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d;-))
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That's the message I got off the admin of the site I use telling me they're banning BOW again... aaaaaaargh! Bits On Wheels is by far the best client out there - can you please fix it?
too bad.
Is this gonna change or what?
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If I ping apple.com while BoW is running, my response times are usually ~2000ms. If I quit BoW, they drop off to a more acceptable ~90ms. If I run the 'regular' BitTorrent client (4.1.2), my ping times don't go up much if at all.
I love this app, but that kind of latency makes other network activity a real drag. Developer, any ideas?
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I don't like those files on my boot partition, why are they there, and why are they not on the partition were the application is.