Happy 40th

[bwood]

Way back from my Corel days. Glad I found Xara as many have. Congratulations!

[Acorn]

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 :-)

The version I have doesn't.
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

[ernie-f]

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.

[handrawn]

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

but I never had the money for that. Years later, I got a Samsung A4 colour laser printer for just over £120

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 format

[Fred vanderZee]

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.)

[handrawn]

we are all oid

your work is exceptional Fred, no doubt about it... 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

[davezub]

I think I'm missing some cds but been around since early 1990s.

[gwpriester]

Wow Dave that's quite a collection.

[davezub]

Thanks, should have thrown in your signed stereogram book I won in a contest back in the day.