https://www.xara.com/40th/
I've been a user since 1994.
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https://www.xara.com/40th/
I've been a user since 1994.
Think I can beat that.... I remember using Wordwise on a BBC micro with a "Torch" double 5.25" 400k floppy disk drive in 1982. That add-on alone cost about £1000, equivalent to about £3500 today!
Congratulations XARA too. But a big discount would be good.
Sadler - Have not seen you around here for a while. I was at a CorelDRAW conference in 1995 or 96 when Corel announced they were going to market Xara. After a demo I decided this was the software for me. But you have a few years on me.
still have the box from 1995 in my bookshelf.
Congrats to the Xara team!
I have been with Charles Moir's developments and products since Wordwise so almost the full 40 years. Only 26 years are actually Xara-named products, surely?
Despite the timeline hype, Impression was a pain to use when it had its dreaded dongle. I think I can still lay my hands on every single physical purchased gizmo.
For a better timeline, read: https://www.xara.com/uk/history/.
Well done Charles.
Acorn
Companies House - some background:
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/03097032
THE XARA GROUP LIMITED
Incorporated on 31 August 1995
Prior: GADDESDEN TECHNOLOGY LIMITED 31 Aug 1995 - 06 Jun 1996
https://find-and-update.company-info...mpany/02991759
COMPUTER CONCEPTS LIMITED
Incorporated on 18 November 1994
Dissolved on 31 December 2013
Prior: XARA LIMITED 18 Nov 1994 - 11 Sep 1995
Happy Birthday to Xara and team! :)
Happy Birthday Xara!!!
Didn't ArtWorks also have a dongle too Acorn, or is my memory fading further? Two parallel ports forcing the computer further off the wall behind :-)Quote:
Despite the timeline hype, Impression was a pain to use when it had its dreaded dongle
Way back from my Corel days. Glad I found Xara as many have. Congratulations!
The version I have doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
I can run it blindingly fast on my PC using VirtualRPC-SA instead of its original Acorn Archimedes, which I still have though I use a two-stack RiscPC nowadays. I use it occasional with CARVIC's !DrawAid that let you use BBC Basic to program vector drawings for gears and the like.
The only other dongle I can think of was for the laser printer but I never had the money for that. Years later, I got a Samsung A4 colour laser printer for just over £120.
Acorn
Congrats to Xara too.
My career with Xara began in 2008. Before that, I was damaged by Adobe and Corel and found the Swiss knife for graphics in Xara.
I still use CorelDraw and otehr graphic softwares but the work in Xara is fun for me and I got my job done faster than with other programs.
I even designed books with many pictures and more than 600 pages in Xara.
I'm a relative newcomer too - 2003
as was common then, computer mags often came with a free CD of assorted programs to try out; I was looking for an AV, but a couple of other programs caught my eye, one of them was xara x
in the eighties I bought a 32MB [yes megabyte] HDD at an eywateringly high price; that is just about enough space these days to store just one average 3/4 minute uncompressed completed music track in wav formatQuote:
Originally Posted by acorn
Congratulations to all the Xara peeps. I feel old now ;).
And thanks for showing my work! (see https://www.xara.com/40th/ at the bottom: Best of Xara 2021, Painter.)
we are all oid :D
your work is exceptional Fred, no doubt about it... :cool: well deserved
I was also impressed by TOMÁŠ' animation 'zoom-letter' [ you have to go to his website to see it play] it took a while to load but it is a great example of animation in xara
I think I'm missing some cds but been around since early 1990s.Attachment 130455
Wow Dave that's quite a collection.
Thanks, should have thrown in your signed stereogram book I won in a contest back in the day.