The OpenAladdin4D site has been quiet for a good while due to several things. Initially we ran into a minor glitch with our donation system, which was easily fixed, then...

Katrina hit. We really stopped thinking about Aladdin 4D and we worried about all those people and participated in giving what we could to the people there and the groups that were helping them. Then more storms hit. When we finally did think of Aladdin 4D again, we realized it wasn't a good time to ask for donations on an Open Source project.

Time has passed, we've all done our parts for our fellow people, but now it's time to relaunch.

Even better - we've got news!

First off, Nova Design has stated that Amiga users will now get an early bonus. When we hit the 10% mark on donations ($3757.00 USD) Nova will release the Amiga binaries of Aladdin 4D free to everyone! This will include the entire contents of the Aladdin 4D retail CD.

Nova has also stated that all electronic formats of the manual/documentation, tutorials, projects and more will be released at the 50% mark!

This is a very generous offer by Nova Design. Thanks guys!

We've also gotten a few questions, so here's where we provide some answers:

Q: Will you refund donations if there isn't enough money raised to buy Aladdin 4D from Nova Design?

A: Absolutely. If we can't buy Aladdin 4D to release into Open Source, all monies will be returned.

Q: What will you do if you raise more money than is needed?

A: We intend to start bounty programs then to offer reward money to programmers who create needed modules/updates to Aladdin 4D. Some money will be used to maintain the site and pay for bandwidth, but everything else will be used to promote the development of Aladdin 4D

Q: What if the donations fall a little short of the goal?

A: Nova Design has stated they're a little flexible. They WANT Aladdin 4D to be released into Open Source so Aladdin 4D doesn't die or become Abandonware.

Q: What license will Open Aladdin 4D be under?

A: LGPL is the plan, but we're open to other suggestions right now.

We hope this answers all the big questions and that everyone will visit the site at www.openaladdin4d.com and make a donation right away!

Free Aladdin 4D!

Nate Downes
Dave Crawford
Kermit Woodall