Aladdin 4D goes on the auction block.

[System]

Nova Design is seeking to sell off the rights/sourcecode/etc to it's Aladdin 4D package at this time.

We're open to discussion on the whys/etc if you care. Simply put -
we need the money to stay in business and to move forward with our
company and Aladdin 4D, while we love it, can be spared from our future plans if it can be used to raise the funds we need.

It's a sad decision for us nonetheless.

Oddly enough - we're using eBay as our selling mechanism and promoting roundly where we can.

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Kermit Woodall
Bob Fisher

[Hammer]

@NovaDesign

Why not sell Windows version of your main Amiga products e.g. ImageFX, Aladdin 4D?

That is, following survival techniques from  Maxon’s Cinema 4D, Newtek’s Lightwave, Scala, Grasshopper’s Pagestream and ‘etc’.

There’s a market for cost effective photo editing suite in Windows market since the establish/dominant players is getting a bit expensive (especially in countries with lower currencies than US and Euro).

I think ImageFX competitive enough against Paint Shop Pro 8, Ulead Photo Impact. Attracting enough X86 centric OEM vendors should bring in some cashflow (following ULead's market entry).

PS; I’m not advocating a total abandonment of Amiga but for generating enough cash flow to stay afloat.

[redrumloa]

Good luck kermit!! :-)

[JKD]

Once you do that, what is the point in continuing on with the Amiga
version though? The only reason would be truly altruistic...

The only example I can think of right now that still exists is
Grasshopper LLC...I guess he acheives it by keeping the core
functionality well strcutured and system/architecture specific pieces
well abstracted from the core?

$35k...hmm, well I guess if you though you could sell 350 copies at
$100 a throw then that's your initial investment sunk...well, assuming
you transitioned to a userbase that would buy 350 copies...I doubt
even the combined OS4/MorphOS userbase would yield that...but a PC
program might


Good luck Kermit!

Steve

PS For what it's worth - wonder how much 68k ASM is contained in the source??? Aladdin4D has quite a fast renderer on a 68k after all

[Elwood]

Well, I would prefer to spend money buying a licence for Lightwave. And the code is already PPC...

[DanDude]

I'd say keep it running.  Alladin4D is a very powerful application and should support all major platforms, to say the least.  This includes AmigaOS4!  Do you know how fast it will run when you use it on AmigaOS4??

[Coyote7]

They should try selling them on eBay.

I mean, I just think that would be amusing.

[kwoodall]

None of the code is ASM - it's all C.

Kermit

[Hammer]

I wonder IF one could modify/recompile it to work with AROS + Cygwin (Win32)...

[amigau]

has anyone thought of talking to Linspire, or Novell, etc. as a possible purchaser who could (fairly) easily port the code to Linux and then include it as a bundled app?  Seems like one of the better possibilities, or include it as a variant on the various 'K' apps you see with KDE, etc.?

Good luck with the auction, hope you are letting those types of corporate players know about it...Even though it's a long shot, you might want to let NewTek and its new spinoff (can't remember the name right now) know about it, too - even though they probably aren't interested, someone else (like Bauhaus, the current owners of Aura, etc.) might be?

Who knows, maybe you could trade source code for bundling/marketing support from the bigger software company to move more of your own product?

good luck in any event....

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com

[Rogue]

And the code is already PPC...

That doesn't really mean anything. MacOS X Apps are all PPC as well, but that doesn't mean they're easy to port...

[Oli_hd]

Auction closed with no bids

Auction was relisted, same price/details.

Now at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=188&item=3695355745
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