Since we have heard from Conan Hunter, is it possible to find out from him who to contact? Don't want Corel thinking that Bryce is being used by 3 or 10 people. Might want to remind them that there are repeat customers out there.

Pauljs I think you have a great idea there but it is a very big IF. There are programers in this forum who are capable of working on the code, I know of one in particular whos programming skills are at that level, but could we get enough people of this calibre to make it work. Also who do you know who is trustworthy enough to take on the monumental task of collecting the funds? Seven, Conan is taking nothing more to do with Bryce, I think he made that quite clear in his letter, but if he could give us a contact for someone in Coral management that would be a great help. I'll email him again and ask. As for letting him know there's more than a handful of users out here I think he knows that already, it's convincing the management of this fact that needs to be done. Have you checked out the other thread on this matter, "Attention: - No more Bryce", There are many people there trying to figure out what to do too. Catlin

The e-mail adresses of most people at corel seem to be .@corel.com If you know some names at corel, you could try that.

Thanks Rayraz that's a good thing to know, perhaps a visit to the Coral site will give the name we need. Catlin

.@corel.com = [first name].[last name]@corel.com I typed it with <'s and that didn't work here :)

I would say: Derek Burney President and CEO, Corel Corporation I remember same "Ventura Publisher is dead" messages and then there was protest...more protest and then "Ventura 10". If we all let Corel know that we want Bryce and they find out that there are many thinking that way, it can be that we are strong enough to change the situation. So let us start a "rescue Bryce demonstration of creative users". It is good that the informations about the problems with Bryce future are known yet. I really had pain in the heart knowing it for longer time but could not tell. And a second thing: I remember that after the metacreations decision there was a interview with some of the former Bryce inventors and one said: if there is no Bryce 5 from the new owners I will create one myself. He said that he has a near complete code of a pumped up version ready. We should find out who that was and what happened with it. Best wishes for the Bryce future.

Personally I'd rather have Pandromeda working on bryce than Corel. Ken Musgrave said that he could instantly make bryce much faster and better by using some code he used in Mojoworld and using some old coding that never made it into version 4 or 5. That sounds much better than Corel's 'keeping quiet' tactic.

Good thinking Andre, it would be good I think for every Bryce user to sent Corel an image they created in Bryce. It may snag their servers for a day or two but perhaps they would take a look at all this incoming mail and pay attention for once. Cat

And hopefully give it to pandromeda for free :)

LOL...........got to laugh RayRaz, if only, is what comes to mind. I suppose we could all just pray, keep our fingers and toes crossed, all hold our breath, etc. etc. I guess they would not want to be held responsible for the death of Bryce users all round the world. Should also add, "do not try this at home". Cat

Still having a purple-blue head "do not try this at home" couldn't you say that before suggesting to hold my breath? :P

From what I've gleaned from my friend it would appear that since times are tough for Corel there is a good chance they would sell Bryce to put something back in the coffers, and I think this would be more likely since at present they don't appear to have any future plans for Bryce. The patch for Bryce 5 was the last work to be done on the program and since many of the developers were laid off last summer I don't think any more work was completed for a Bryce 6. Also there didn't appear to be any developers brought in from outside the company to continue work on Bryce, this would have cost a fortune to do anyway and I don't think Corel have the finances for that at the moment. From everything my mate has told me it would appear that the developers of Bryce were/are as dedicated to the program as we are, but because times are very hard economically for Corel they had to let the developers go and as Bryce is not included in Corel's future plans, no more work is being done on it. Folk who have an interest in aquiring Bryce basically have a similar problem as Corel itself, the venture capital isn't there, and there's another point, many people would like to own Bryce the name but not Bryce the program and we should all be careful about who we choose to trust with the use of our money to develop Bryce. One thing I was warned about was that putting money into buying Bryce would have to be done as an investment program with all the contracts etc. that accompany such an action, then we would have the assured knowledge of what we would be getting in return otherwise we could end up throwing good money after bad and not get the program we want in return. This brings me back to a point I made earlier and that is that we would need someone trustworthy to organise this and it would be asking a lot of someone to do this. I hope this has answered some of peoples questions and if there is anything else anyone would like to know either write here or IM me. I'll also put this in a new thread to keep everyone informed. Cheers Cat