hidr Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 A client of mine have recently asked me how can he find a legal copy of 3D Studio for DOS. He told me that the quality that offers is enough for him and he doesn't want to buy one of the expensive new packages. I told him that there is not authorised dealer for that program and he asked me to tell him what to do. I wonder what is the solution about such problems. When a company stops selling an old program which is the way to use it. Are you illegal if you do so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHAB Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 A client of mine have recently asked me how can he find a legal copy of 3D Studio for DOS. He told me that the quality that offers is enough for him and he doesn't want to buy one of the expensive new packages. I told him that there is not authorised dealer for that program and he asked me to tell him what to do. I wonder what is the solution about such problems. When a company stops selling an old program which is the way to use it. Are you illegal if you do so? try downloading it !!If its there!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Eloy Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 That means the guy will keep using Windows 3.1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 aye. it's a bit silly, part from the fact the early dos versions probably wouldnt work on modern pc's. there's plenty of free 3dstudio style modelers and renderers out there m8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Blender! I'm not a huge fan but it sure beats 3DS for DOS. And if he ever wants a "modern" feature like accelerated 3D and a half-decent render engine, they're in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizard Head Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I still have 3D Studio DOS version 4C...along with worldbuilder and all that for DOS,,, but it is more of "bit of history" setup for me... kinda like how some collect old cars.. LOL.. but anyways,, my point is this, its not just the software,,,these old DOS 3d Packages were very very picky about the OS machines they were installed on,,the cpu's,,and mostly they would only run with the proper graphics cards... so not only would you have to locate the software, and all the plugins, you would also need to build a machine with parts from the early to mid 90's.. I did it with the help of E Bay.... took a long time. its not really worth it for commercial use,, and as far as ilegal,, Autodesk still holds the rights ,,in thier eyes,, as silly as it may seem,,ten years old software,, ya it would be illegal.. the scanline renderer used to this day hasnt changed much since then. I am sure it is based in the same technology and as far as decent render engines, 3ds studio for DOS, even back then, had the greatest that ever was and still is........ Lightscape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Good God, tell him to put down the pipe, that's the sillyest thing I've heard in a long long time, tell him there are lots of free software out there, blender, wings3d etc, not to mention so much affordable software like XSI, truespace, modo, lightwave are all under $1,000... I made this point over at another forum, a thread about Apple dropping their price on Shake, (Shake is an industry standard compositing package, it was $3,000, and now its $499) "This is certainly a great time in history, you can buy a 3D animation package for $495 (XSI) and an industry standard compositing package for $499 and run them both on a laptop (dual boot intel/mac) that's as fast as a dual 3GHZ Xenon workstation, essentially a mini movie studio that you can carry around with you, and it will only cost you like $3,000... Pretty cool" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizard Head Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 A Copy?? .. I dunno,, that may be illegal even though it is abandonware ,,check first. and HDIR, if you go this route mail me,, I can set you up with all the plugins that went along with it ( those cant be illegal,,,I dont think).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizard Head Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 LOL.. I was bothering them up till about 2000 on digging through and finding old IPAS routines for me,, I think they were just happy to be getting rid of them ( and me)... and ALOT of them didnt come through Digimation.. alot came from other sources that were around back then.... either way, I have every one ever made... including a ton of useful scripts.. just let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hidr Posted June 23, 2006 Author Share Posted June 23, 2006 I know that my customer's idea seems a little silly, but the point is what is going on about the law with packages that developers and dealers stop selling or supporting. How can you purchase them? Are you Illegal? An example of that is that Autodesk stopped selling AutoCAD 2002 and before, what do I do when I need one of these? Am I illegal? Some things that AutoCAD 2000 did can't be found at newer versions, or your clients give you old formats, etc. There are many reasons to buy an old package. What can you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 I don't think it will ever be "legal"...sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtual Partners Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 As a reseller I can can tell you there would be no confusion at all. Once a version is posted as discontinued that's it. No longer available. I'd be very leary of anyone sending you a DOS version. For starters they had Hardware locks so you might be able to get it to work IF you had a DOS operating system but God knows what you'd run in to with a newer O/S. I sure wouldn't give anybody any Money for it. I'd have to go with the suggestions for getting newer software some of the legal freebee stuff or get a full license of whatever you feel will do the job. What you have to look at is what does your client or project require. What software will do that for you and then what hardware does that software require. In that order. For What it's worth Department. Murph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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