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MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR
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From: Darren John Dwyer
Date: September 2008
- Creator of BCB-Tools.com, the TDx_Library, the TDx9_Library and the BCB_Code_Generator.
web: http://bcb-tools.com
email: [email protected]
BCB-Tools.com is highly successful, in a strange kind of way...
Guaranteed, there are at least 12,000++ copies of my Software downloaded from this website...
Since other people can also distribute my Software for FREE, there are probably many thousands more copies in use...
Far as I can determine, there should be at least 30,000+ copies of my Software on HDD's somewhere...
And, at least 10,000++ people visit my website each month... downloading thousands of copies of my Software...
Unfortunately, there are only 300 actual real-world, real-paid Registered Users, compared to all these
many thousands of "free users"... also known as "bludgers"... "brain-dead monkeys"... "stupid fools"... :)
Please realize that BCB-Tools.com costs REAL-WORLD money to run and maintain.
- It costs REAL-WORLD money to actually develop all this software.
- It takes REAL-WORLD registrations to actually pay for all the software development.
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In reality, I have not made any money from BCB-Tools.com for at least 5 years...
Earning less than US$1000 a year from Registrations...
In fact, I have been steadily losing $5000 per year for the past 10 years... since i do not include
the wages I should be earning for all my work...
I have been waiting many months, years even, for a single person to pay me a single registration.
Yet, I have not been paid a cent for many years - even though I have continued to work and pay for this website.
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What exactly have I done?
- I have spent 25+ YEARS learning how to program computers to a professional capacity...
- I have spent 10+ YEARS learning how to create professional Borland C++ Builder component libraries... BCB v1,3,4,5,6,2006... etc...
- I have spent 10+ YEARS learning DirectX from v3.1 thru v5.0, v6.1, v7.0a to v9.0c...
- I have spent 10+ YEARS creating BCB-Tools.com and the TDx_Library and the BCB_Code_Generator and the TDx9_Library...
- I have patched Microsoft's buggy DirectX 7.0a SDK so it actually works with Borland C++ Builder v1,3,4,5,6,2006...
- I have converted the entire Microsoft DirectX 7.0a SDK byte-by-byte into a Next-Generation Visual Programming Interface...
- I have seamlessly integrated the entire Microsoft DirectX 7.0a SDK into the Borland C++ Builder Visual Component Library...
- I have fully documented the resulting end-product and created demos, tutorials, information pages, and so on... all 200+ Mb of it...
- I have supported the products for thousands of end-users, for 10+ years, answering all questions to the fullest of my abilities...
Not easy.
Especially when i do NOT get paid money for it, and when it actually costs me money to make it all happen...
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Look, it's all there, laid out for you.
Couldn't be easier, or more straightforward...
- Look around our FREE website and take a good hard long look at our tools (8,000 web pages, 200+ Megabytes)
- Download the FREE libraries and try them out for yourself (v1.80)
- Register the Latest Versions and let us expand your capabilities
- Maybe Sponsor Us, (ie. advertise your website(s)/product(s))
- Ask us any questions you like, and we'll reply...
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I have great plans to create more, improved, versions of the TDx_Library... v1.90 and better, for BCBx and DirectX 7
with some bugfixes where required to make it work as perfect as can be, complete with many more demos,
tutorials and example application templates.
Added to that, I have great plans to complete the TDx9_Library v1.00, DirectX 9 for Windows XP, XBox,
Vista, etc... complete with many demos, tutorials, and example application templates.
I also have plans to release the BCB_Code_Generator, as soon as possible.
BUT I HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM....
- NOBODY EVER PAYS FOR THEIR SOFTWARE
- I DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITIES TO DO IT ALL BY MYSELF
- I NEED REAL-WORLD HELP BUT THERE IS NONE COMING FROM ANYWHERE
All I need is some MONEY (cash) and I could be developing heaps and heaps more software.
All I need is some GRAPHICS (icons) and I could be developing heaps and heaps more software.
The entire time I have been involved with BCB-Tools, all 10+ years, I have given away my tools for FREE,
while also trying to charge people money, to no avail.
Thousands and thousands of copies of MY software have been downloaded, and the entire time I have been hoping
beyond hope that people would find my tools useful and ultimately REGISTER as a way of rewarding me
for all my years of seriously difficult development, independendly working to make
Borland C++ Builder and DirectX better than Borland or Microsoft ever imagined.
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I've worked very hard. For 10+ very long and difficult years i've worked very hard.
Day in, day out, for 10+ years, i've worked on this project.
7 days a week, 18 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 7 straight years...
Then another 3 more years of 60-100 hour weeks just working on more stuff...
FOR NO MONEY
Nowadays, I simply cannot be bothered working on this any more.
I have now worked on this project for at least 10+ very long years... at my own personal cost...
I have lost over US$2 million while developing these tools for massively INSIGNIFICANT financial return...
I could quite literally have been earning much more money doing other things with my time... like a job...
Maybe... think about it... with my advanced coding skills i could get a job @ US$120,000++ per year...
Maybe I should be doing that instead of working for YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS for LITERALLY NOTHING....
Nobody forced me to create the TDx_Library, nobody made me write such incredible tools,
nobody forced me to give away all the fruits of our labours for FREE, but i did it so that the
entire Borland C++ Builder community could experience the difference DirectX for Borland C++ Builder makes.
And i've paid for all the hard work, both professionally and personally...
Please note that i didn't do it out of the goodness of my heart...
It's not much fun being repeatedly gang-raped by thousands of people who steal the results of
your seriously hard-work day-in, day-out, for years at a time...
Now, you may not realize it, considering the professional capabilities of our tools and this website, but i am VERY poor
and quite literally disabled... I am mentally ill, schizophrenic, and I have the certificates to prove it... ;)
Unfortunately, as part of my illness, sometimes I must stay in a psychiatric hospital for awhile, and when this happens,
I am quite simply unable to do my work, or respond to my website or emails... please be patient if you are ever inconvenienced.
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I live in Australia... a "rich" country... where a wage of AUS$60,000 is considered the "average man's wage"...
I live on about 25% of average weekly wages in our country... on a Disability Support Pension...
"I Live On An Income Far Far Far Below the Poverty Line In My Country..."
"the Poverty Line says that you need at least AUS$20,000, 5 years ago, to live sustainably in my Country."
My Income is About AUS$15,000 per year... less AUS$5,000 spent keeping BCB-Tools.com alive and growing...
My Income is About US$12,000 per year... less US$4,000 spent keeping BCB-Tools.com alive and growing...
I earn Barely enough to feed myself and pay the bills, definately not enough to do anything real, like create a viable
software company, escape poverty, buy necessities, replace things when they break down, buy mini-luxuries once in a while,
and so on...
FOR EXAMPLE: IF MY COMPUTER STOPS WORKING, I CANNOT AFFORD TO REPLACE IT
I am stuck in a poor-house, paying rent, using barely adequate hardware and software, doing all i can to make
our development lives better, but i have no "real" money to do anything other than sit on my computers all day everyday
working and working and working and i never leave my house, simply because i cannot afford to do so...
I am actually trying to earn some money so i can escape poverty, eventually grow a successful
company and create many more powerful tools for Borland C++ Builder, Delphi, Microsoft, etc.
Ultimately, I want to use the money earned from this website to create many, many more
cutting-edge software development tools and other projects, as well as ultimately funding
real-world research into a real-world cure for death.
Unfortunately, practically nobody has ever registered my Software, and i have earnt basically ZERO money
from registrations for 10 long years - no real wages, no real income, nothing - and we are now at the point in
history whereby this website and projects will live or die depending on commercial-reality considerations.
We have continued to pour all our time, skills and money into this venture, until we are where we are now,
virtually bankrupt, with no more money to pour into keeping the business alive.
All because nobody can be bothered to register...
Register Now!
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At least 300-1000 people visit and use our website every day, and yet no-one ever registers...
But, as soon as we offer our tools for FREE, thousands upon thousands of people sign-up and download them...
NOTE: of all these thousands of FREE users, less than 1% actually bother to register and say "thanks" for all the hard work...
Register Now!
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That's bloody unfair...
And Sooooooo Stoopid...
Register Now!
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Nowadays I continue to work around the clock, pathetically poor, struggling along with the dream that
if I can keep on working as much as possible, and create lots of new stuff, then maybe a few of the thousands
of people who download for FREE and rape me of my intellectual property will actually change their minds
and pay me a little real-world money to continue my solo development efforts.
Unlikely.
Over 10,000++ people have visited our website, actively signed-up for downloads and supplied us with their email address,
and then they have downloaded our older tools for FREE, and received FREE email support as well.
Note: March 2007. 600-800 people were downloading our tools for FREE each month.
Note: December 2007. 700+ people downloaded the TDx_Library v1.80 for FREE in the first 48 hours.
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But NONE (less than 1%) of these many thousands of people have ever come back and actually "Registered",
and actually paid us something for all our hard work, money and time we have invested in this project...
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1000+ downloads in the last 12 months, practically ZERO sales in the last 12 months.
8000++ downloads in the last 5 years, practically ZERO sales in the last 8 years.
(Plus all the pirated copies out there)
Minimum of US$200,000 in lost revenue in the last year, millions and millions of dollars
quite literally lost over the course of the project...
...easily enough for us to escape poverty and build a viable business...
Register Now!
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But totally imaginary money...
That's not just unfair... thats a one way ticket towards bankrupcy... for us, at BCB-Tools.com.
If just 1% of the people who were downloading our tools for FREE had bothered to pay us,
we'd be much better off than we are, and we'd be creating more advanced tools, instead of just
working on it "as much as we can afford"... not much, when we have to look elsewhere to support ourselves...
If all 100% of the people who have downloaded our tools for FREE had actually paid us,
As Is The L.A.W., then we'd be viable, and we'd be creating many many many more advanced tools, instead of just
looking elsewhere for support...
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Every single sale is worth a mini-fortune to me...
And i know how to leverage every last cent into creating more tools.
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Remember, i am not Microsoft or Borland, with Millions and Billions of dollars.
Register Now!
Look at what i've already achieved, with no money...
Then imagine what i could achieve if just 1% of our users bothered to register occasionally...
and give us at BCB-Tools.com some kind of return for our extended 10+ years of dedicated efforts.
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Imagine what we could achieve if all 100% of our free users bothered to Register and pay us some real-world money... As Is The L.A.W.
Imagine This...
Register Now!
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I've been working enormously hard and long hours for years and years to get everything working, to get upgrades
completed and tested and released, actually understand it all, get demos working, get tutorials & information pages written,
and so on...
I have been incredibly generous to the Borland C++ Builder community...
Even though i struggle to buy food and pay bills because of a lack of money,
and considering the fact that i live on less than 25% of average weekly earnings,
and considering the fact that i have paid for all development over all the years...
Maybe >YOU<, ie. the Borland C++ Builder community... could you finally reciprocate and help me out?
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I rely solely on your financial support to pay for this website and our future development efforts.
My entire website is living PROOF i/we know how to do the work, and create incredible products...
But it's registrations that we really need, and we leverage every last cent into doing the work...
Please consider registering TODAY.
It's the least you could do to help our development efforts,
unlike the 10,000++ users we already have to support, for no actual real-world return.
And, considering what you get for your money (FREE till you release your application), it's a bargain.
Please take the time to read about our tools.
They are unique, incredibly powerful and incredibly cheap.
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Thanks for your time.
I hope you like what i've developed... I use it myself, and RAD DirectX amazes me to say the least.
I've been programming for about 25 years, using dozens of different programming languages and environments,
and i've never before experienced such awesome programming power at my fingertips.
Nothing else i've ever experenced has given me the kind of "buzz" i get when i experience coding
RAD DirectX using the TDx_Library and Borland C++ Builder... i just love using it, when i get the chance.
It's simply incredible.
Please enjoy.
And maybe i'll also develop some new stuff...
And maybe i'll show you what i already have developed...
Thanks,
- Darren Dwyer,
- Creator of BCB-Tools.com, the TDx_Library, the TDx9_Library and the BCB_Code_Generator.
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