Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 301 from 2003/2/24
From: Genesi
Superbundle downloads are disabled currently as a side effect of bringing online the new store; the way users are authenticated has changed on PegasosPPC.com so the original download site stopped working properly.
The keys were also hardcoded such that only a certain number were ever generated; and it's apparently not possible to generate more to add to the rudimentary password scheme.
So much for web design in those days, eh?
The key is also used to authenticate FxPaint, and apply for upgrade deals, but these deals have lapsed. It basically means nobody can use FxPaint anymore. We have to solve this somehow.
The replacement system just hasn't been written, there hasn't been any time. Everything was SUPPOSED to be consolidated onto one server - MorphOS downloads, updates, goodies and the official Superbundle applicatons - but for one reason or another this keeps being stopped and other things get done instead.
Once the Genesi sites have been all rewritten into the new style being engineered currently the Superbundle will be available again.
Anyway you do have the right to download the Superbundle and use it, we just haven't got a reliable way of doing it at the moment.
Resources are limited, and I only have so many fingers to type with, so much time devoted to other projects, and so little access to fast decisions on subjects, that it just isn't going to be done until maybe just before Christmas.
This is not about false advertising. You'll get the access. Your Pegasos is not useless (as would be a monitorless PC) without FxPaint or BirdieShoot. You did not buy a Pegasos just for them. Quit whining.
Neko
Matt Sealey, Genesi USA, Inc.
Developer Relations
Product Development Analyst