3D in Revolution Needs Your Help

[Lynn Fredricks]

Hello all,

Several months ago we set up a team to create Franklin 3D, after talking
with quite a few Revolution users about a founder's program. Franklin 3D
adds a powerful 3D game engine to Revolution. This is all following
conversations Ive had over the last several years (quite a bit at the Las
Vegas RunRevLive) about having 3D support for Revolution.

My team at Paradigma, as most know, is focused on the database market. We
put together a separate team to tackle this problem.

We set up a founder's program so that we could pay for an engineering team
to bring this product to fruition on Windows and Mac OS X for a 1.0 release.
About 15 people in the community said they would participate when it reached
a beta release, and pre-purchase Franklin 3D to help this happen. This
number is about 1/3 more than what we need to complete. Founders get the
full year of updates after release, plus have a direct voice in the features
we incorporate into 1.0. Future features are driven by customer feedback. We
have a private beta list ready for those who participate.

The Windows version beta is available for download on the Franklin 3D
website at http://www.franklin3d.com. The Mac version is the one that has
the biggest cost - at this point, I can say it compiles, and we are
estimating 2-3 months to deliver the 1.0 Windows AND Mac OS X release. This
project is driven solely by our ability to pay the developers for their
work.

We reached the point about two weeks ago, and unfortunately none of those
who said they would participate have placed an order yet.

We need your help in bringing this to fruition. If you previously said you'd
pre-purchase, please follow through and do it. If you have an interest in 3D
games or 3D simulations, check it out at http://franklin3d.com/.

If you are one of those who asked for Linux after our first announcements of
the founder's program - Linux will happen only after a 1.0 launch. The best
way to have a say in a Linux version is to participate. A Linux version will
never pay for itself unless its part of a complete platform launch.


Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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