Feeling a little old here but I remember when the Xara web site looked like this. Anyone else been around here for this long?
This was a screen grab from 1996.
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Feeling a little old here but I remember when the Xara web site looked like this. Anyone else been around here for this long?
This was a screen grab from 1996.
Me I guess since I have CorelXara 1 and a few before Corel got hold of it.
JimM
Not I. I started using X3D (version 2 or 3 I think it was back then) in 1998 or thereabouts. It was probably a year later that I purchased Xara Webster (the lite version of Xara's drawing program) just because I wanted to import shapes into X3D. It is hard to tell from the registered products page on Xara's website because the dates are messed up (it says I registered Webster in 2008) After I bought Webster I had the bug and bought Xara X and have purchased every version since.
Eric
<<Anyone else been around here for this long?>>
Very long, look at my join date.
If you want to look at all the former xara.com looks, just visit http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://xara.com
Juergen
I remember buying Xara Studio 1.0 from a Xara stand at the Computer Arts exhibition in Islington, London.
It was amazing.
I first got it from Corel a few months after they started marketing CorelXara.
Hehehe, I first got it a little while before they joined up with Corel and I remember that I was mightily disappointed, not with the product but with the Corel marriage. Things got better after than :thx
I first read about it in Computer Arts, in around 1999 I suppose, and bought v2.0 as a result of their glowing review. For a while it was their no. 1 recommended vector drawing application, until the next version, which they gave to a different person to review and he clearly didn't get it.
Yes i must admit I went down the Coral road due to the industry I was working in and the business standards I had to adhere to.
Yep, XaraStudio in 1996 I think - A friend of mine (with money) had previoously bought an Acorn RiscPC with Artworks - and I'd been dreaming of having something similar ever since.
Didn't touch it for 10 years since joining the world of work, but that's another story:)
I saw Studio doing a demo of the Notorious "Snowbarn.cdr" which took an age to render in Corel
Xara was rendering it about 100 times faster at the Olympia Windows Show
I insisted Charles took me behind the scenes to prove to me there was no Video trickery going on lol
I rang Corel in Canada and said You Got to come over and see this - its amazing.
The Corel crew showed up at the next public showing and I will forever remember their faces, shortly afterwards Corel Xara deal was announced and I thought I had brought together an amazing partnership.
In retrospect I guess it actually slowed things down and Corel only seemed to want to bury rather than expand the Xara user base.
Its great to see Xara doing so well all these years later and Corel finally dropped off my must upgrade annually list.
Onwards and upwards Xara!
So YOU are responsible for that "partnership" that all but stifled Xara.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidDB
I would have kept that quiet, myself.. ;-)
Yup, I was there as well and I can well remember the snowbarn.cdr trick! As I recall that was on a 486 DX2 machine as well - I pre-ordered the CD that day, much to the amusement of my 'non-graphics' colleagues who went to the show with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidDB
Do you remember the demo of the green apple with the water drops? :D
Yeah - but - I had an Acorn Atom (and later a BBC, even played Elite...) :D
JimR
Hey....I had a BBC too and was pretty good at Elite in those days. Was fun and an amazing computer for it's day....ok, now back to regular programming.....