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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: AmiKit on March 11, 2007, 02:52:33 AM

Title: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: AmiKit on March 11, 2007, 02:52:33 AM: MakeCD used to be shareware and some shops sold boxed versions together with a license. This worked well in the past and we are thankful to everyone who found MakeCD worth paying for. However, MakeCD sales have long ago stopped being a relevant source of income for us. At the same time it has become harder and harder for interested users to get hold of a MakeCD license as more and more Amiga shops ceased business.

Therefore we decided to draw a line and stop selling MakeCD altogether: now it is available for free. You still need a valid license key for the existing binaries. Here is a valid, unrestricted key:

Serial Number: 555555555
License Key: H8HsRww)7Uz)!iXE5PUMfgP#VymA6

If you want to tell the authors that you use MakeCD you are welcome to enter some information about yourself in these online forms, but this is entirely voluntary:
English Registration Form (http://makecd.core.de/form/registration.php)
German Registration Form (http://makecd.core.de/form/registrierung.php)

Source: http://makecd.core.de/ (http://makecd.core.de/), http://www.ppa.pl (http://www.ppa.pl)
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: sicky on March 11, 2007, 07:48:15 AM: Wow that is quite a surprise, I am a registered MakeCD user and have been for years. But I am glad people will still be able to get the full (DAO) product because I think it is just the best out there accross many platforms :-)

Does this mean all future development has ceased?
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: Golem!dk on March 11, 2007, 09:17:47 AM: Full announcement here (http://www.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de/pipermail/ml-makecd-announce/2007-March/000037.html). Status doesn't seem to have changed.
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: motorollin on March 11, 2007, 10:33:04 AM: That's great news. I'll download it today :-D A big thanks to the developers for this gift to the Amiga community!

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moto
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: justthatgood on March 11, 2007, 12:46:02 PM: I don't know if this is good or bad? Does this mean that there is no future in more commercial software for the Amiga format? Writing good (I mean GOOD) is hard. It's nice to do a little bit of gift giving and putting out some Open Source stuff, but bills sometimes need to be paid.

I don't know thanks...
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: itix on March 11, 2007, 01:24:09 PM: Quote

Does this mean that there is no future in more commercial software for the Amiga format?

Commercial software market has been dead last 10 years.
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: magnetic on March 11, 2007, 08:11:34 PM: Thank you so much. This is a nice gift for the Amiga community. Though , i'm surprised more ppl didnt buy Makecd for OS4/Mos..

magnetic
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: Golem!dk on March 11, 2007, 08:38:14 PM: Quote
Though , i'm surprised more ppl didnt buy Makecd for OS4/Mos..

Why buy it when you can just wait for the author to release it for free?
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: billchase on March 14, 2007, 09:37:45 PM: Excellent news! Thanks!
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: Hyperspeed on March 15, 2007, 11:44:00 PM: I bought the full DAO version from HiSoft years ago but didn't get around to sending off my details for a full registration code to get rid of an annoying 2-week time limit (on a fully paid product!).

Anyway, this free serial number will mean less hassle for the old binary users.

Thanks.
Title: Re: MakeCD available for free!
Post by: stopthegop on March 16, 2007, 07:22:51 AM: Many gracious thank yous! Thank for thinking of us who refuse to relinquish our "old" Amigas!