I wish vendors would sometimes just quite trying and release either a binary
or source form of old
software (aka abandonware). Sigh....
Ram
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Subject: Re: Anybody have $35K to $89K to spend...
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Subject: Re: Anybody have $35K to $89K to spend...
John Foust said:
At 07:21 AM 8/13/2004, Ram Meenakshisundaram
wrote:
>Aladdin 4D is now on ebay (with source and full rights):
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2992&item=369357448
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rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Kermit's a nice reliable guy and Alladin 4D a reasonable product
in its day, but $35K?
Four days and no bids, I think that says it all... How many bedrooms does
it have?
Even if the package worked on the PC platform instead of the Amiga you would
have problems selling it in a saturated market these days. Your money would
be better spent reselling another CAD package and offering training classes.
I think this package goes for $45 a pop on ebay these days from the owner,
so you would have to sell 1000 copies to break even when all is said and
done (meaning 4 copies to each of the 250 hard core 3D designers that still
use an Amiga today).