Forum: MarketPlace Customers
Subject: PzDB 1.3 by Rocketship3D
shonsu opened this issue on Oct 15, 2021 ยท 7 posts
galaxiefilm posted Tue, 20 February 2024 at 9:09 PM
Well, I guess we can cry all we want to in here -- but our questions have been met with no definitive answers and even outright avoidance! It's been over two years since I placed my info request above and heard nothing back.
PzDB was obviously a great program that was getting even better and then -- BAM -- a brick wall! Ben and Jenn here have been radio silent about it, and the product has disappeared. Rocketship 3D's website is still up but pretty-much non functional.
In all fairness, trying to adapt to too many things changing may have been too overbearing for Ben to be constantly trying to keep up with. From what I could tell, yes, Microsoft created issues with Win 10 AND with Access (once removing it from the pro Office suite and then returning it after public outcry). PzDB did require Access and version compatibility and, I suspect, it was probably driving Ben nuts in trying to write patches to please everyone's setup. Also, if any Python scripting was used, well, we know how *their* revisions changed (ie, ruined) a lot of things. Ah yes, progress creates problems -- sigh.
It would, however, seem to me that if a 3rd-party database was necessary, something free and open source (like Libre Office's database) would now make a safer choice to re-build PzDB upon.
But, being left high & dry, I am now forced on my end to do *whatever* I have to do to so find a solution.