![]() ![]() System requirements were typical for its era, though favoured having additional RAM installed. The store’s computing department must have been flooded with Windows 95 advertising that was only to be released the following week. In fact, the old pink receipt from Harvey Norman’s Dandenong store was still in the box dated 15 August 1995 with an original purchase price of $99 AUD. The copy purchased was in fantastic condition for its age and had been with the original owner since new. I have seen another copy floating around online dated 14 August of the same year which is the original release. Here the focus is on Version 4.0 – more specifically 4.0a with date stamps of 15 November 1993 on the install files. Later this became known as CorelDRAW Technical Suite which leans toward being a CAD software package. Corel continued the Designer product, though was influnced by CorelDRAW. The final version was 9.0 in 2001, when Micrografx was acquired by its competitor Corel. Initially known as In-a-Vision upon its release in 1986, subsequent versions became known as Designer. ![]() Micrografx was founded in 1982 with a focus on graphics applications. Much like other software from the 1980s and 90s, there were other commercial offerings out there though over time were succumbed to corporate acquisitions. ![]() When it comes to illustration and vector graphics, Adobe Illustrator and perhaps to a lesser extent CorelDRAW spring to mind as the main contenders in this segment. ![]()
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