Aladdin 4D Source Code for sale on eBay

[kwoodall]

Here is a unique opportunity to purchase your own 3D software! Not off the shelf -- we're talking source code, trademarks and everything! Nova Design, Inc. has put the entire rights and source code to one of their top software titles, Aladdin 4D, up for auction on eBay. Anyone interested can bid and buy a complete 3D-animation package from the world's most popular online auction house!

Aladdin 4D is a powerful 3D-modeling, rendering and animation package that includes the 3D tools that you?d expect as well as many unique features like relative time-based animation, an amazingly powerful particle system, and one of the fastest rendering systems on the desktop. Nova originally purchased Aladdin 4D in the mid-1990s from Adspec, Inc. and then heavily upgraded and modernized to make it even more powerful and easy to use. Aladdin 4D has many advanced tools for professional 3D animation, yet its interface was designed to be easy for anyone to use.

So now Aladdin 4D is available on auction from eBay, the complete package -- all rights, source code, trademarks and everything. It's easy to find, just search for it by name online or go to the original listing directly at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3695355745 and check it out.

You can find more information on Aladdin 4D online at www.novadesign.com

[Oli_hd]

Errr....

news item when this was first posted on ebay.

Still news I guess, no one bid on it before and its been relisted.

[System]

There's really only a slim chance it'll get bid on this time too - at $35,000 starting bid (or $89,000 buy now), can *any* software company really afford that as an outlay for an Amiga program?

Considering the Amiga software market is both financially and morally bankrupt, there's no chance in anyone from THIS forum putting up a winning bid.

As for another market, how much would porting it to a viable platform cost? Even just re-releasing it for the Amiga would NEVER bring back $35,000.

[TheMagicM]

why not just release it to public domain if it doesnt sell?

[Cyberus]

Now that WOULD be cool :-)

[jeffimix]

It's a shame though, they are a good company.

[System]

I don't think "it came from a good company" makes it any more VFM on eBay

If Maxon release Cinema4D for free like there are rumours, Kermit is going to be up shoeshine creek without his oars.

Neko

[TheMagicM]

yea, but thats releasing the BINARY.... nothin about source code yet..but that would be very awesome if it was source also!

[odin]

Huh? I thought Cinema4D was already released for free on a CUCD of AFCD? Like in the final issue? The problems with the non-working reg codes?

[TheMagicM]

odin: I think it was but it wasnt the source..just the binary.  Doesnt really do much good to re-release a binary.

[amigau]

I disagree - I would have never used TVPaint had it not been released as freeware, because by the time I heard about it, it was off the market.  Same probably holds true for those who heard about the final CU Amiga issue that had the C4D version on it, but never got a copy, and, if you weren't lucky enough to get the license key off a secret page on their website at the time, the binary was of no use anyway, because you had to put in the key bef. using the software......that page wasn't up on their site very long, either....

There is so much software out there (amiga or otherwise) that still has SO much utility (3d programs, TVpaint, PPaint, but also stuff like OctaMED, etc.) and people ignore it because they have to have the 'newest' thing - not always the best choice....

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com