How long have you been using Xara products?

[RTK]

Since 2001 - one of the (if not THE) best buy, I have ever done.

Like Mike, I also have my first Xara (any software) "drawing" - some shapes with plasma - a few transparencies - and two Xara clip-art. And there was "Food".

It has been downhill ever since.



Risto

[Big Frank]

I was using CorelDraw when Xara Studio came out and I'll never forget how incredilby fast Xara was in comparison. I was hooked straight away. I went through the doldrum years when Corel did nothing with CorelXara and then I got Webster when it came out and then to XaraX, and have been a devoted fan of Xara and X3D for years.

[Unregistered]

Is it really 25 years? It's amazing how many CC/Xara products I have bought over the years. I still have 2 B's, an Archie, an A5000 and RISC PC in mostly working order.

I have bought over the years
1982 Wordwise Word Processor BBC Micro
1982 Dissasembler 6502 programmer utility BBC Micro
1982 Adventure Game BBC Micro
1983 Graphics ROM Graphics utilities BBC Micro
1983 Disc Doctor Disc utility BBC Micro
1984 Wordwise Plus Updated word processor with programming language BBC Micro
1985 Speech System Speech synthesiser BBC Micro
1987 Spellmaster Spell checker BBC Micro
1987 Wordwise Plus Word processor Archimedes
1987 ARM Assembly Language book Archimedes
1988 Impression DTP package Archimedes
1989 DTP at a glance Book BBC Micro
1990 Impression 2 Updated DTP package Archimedes
1990 ShowPage Postscript emulator Archimedes
1990 Scanlight Scanner Archimedes
1990 SpellMaster Spell checker Archimedes
1991 Impression Borders Fancy borders for frames Archimedes
1992 ArtWorks Vector graphics - direct ancestor of Xara Xtreme Archimedes
1992 Colourcard Graphics card Archimedes
1994 Impression Publisher Heavyweight DTP Archimedes
1994 Audioworks Sound editing utility Archimedes
1994 MacFS Mac disc reading utility Archimedes
1994 ClipArt CDs clipart from Artworks contests Archimedes
1994 Graphics Loaders Import / export filters Archimedes
1994 Eagle M2 Video capture board Archimedes
1994 Wacom ArtPads Tablet and driver software Archimedes
1994 Xara Studio Vector graphics Windows
1996 Various Artworks tools (Easox pressure, Arranger, Precision, later Hatch) Archimedes
1996 Text Loaders & Savers RTF & Word Perfect loaders/savers Archimedes
1996 Webster Cut down vector graphics Windows
1997 Xara3D 3D text & animations Windows
1998 Xara Webstyle Template based web graphics Windows
2000 Xara X New CorelXARA under our own brand Windows
2001 Xara Online Online Web Services All
2002 Menu Maker DHTML menus for websites Windows
2003 ScreenMaker 3D screen saver maker Windows

My memory is of going to Acorn shows clutching bundles of dics to upgrade to the latest version.

Bob

[jyoung]

Started just a few months ago. New to this whole graphics world.