3D in Revolution Needs Your Help

[Judy Perry]

It sounds interesting, Lynn, but as a Mac user (and a currently unemployed 
one at that!), I'm kinda hard-pressed to pre-order something that I'm 
unable to kick the tires on.

Perhaps others have similar dilemmas?

Best regards for the project!

Judy

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Lynn Fredricks wrote:

> 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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