December 04 2009 
You've made Santa's "Nice" list
The 2009 MegaBundle offers more products, at a better value
In our best hopes, holidays are a time for loved ones to come together, for "ginormous" meals, for sharing and giving ... and of course, playing with the very best toys. This year's holiday "MegaBundle" attempts to capture that sense of the season. Our hard-working revSelect partners — developers whose names you'll recognize from the forums as some of the most helpful and generous developers in our community — are coming together, as they have for each of the two past years, with a massive buffet of tasty tools, utilities, and media for an amazing low price.
The difference this year is that there is more gear than ever, and the price is also the best value ever.
"This year, RunRev is contributing revEnterprise, our flagship product, along with a year's software assurance pack and the all-new 12-DVD set of sessions from our successful RunRevLive.09 developers conference in Edinburgh," said Kevin Miller, RunRev CEO. By itself, that's a bundle worth about $950. (If you already have an active revEnterprise license, the year's assurance pack is added on to the end of your term.)
Previous MegaBundles that included revEnterprise sold for as much as $999.
But pile on top of that just about every add-on product in our store. That's "all the fixin's" as they say in the American South. It's the software equivalent of heaping mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, asparagus, yams, casserole, baked apples, and more onto your plate ...without all the weight gain!
These are full retail versions of high-quality commercial software — not trials, demos, or limited-functionality versions. These include the most popular products in our shop, including the exciting new tRev script editor and tText scriptable text editor. The blindingly fast chartsEngine and super-smooth animationEngine. ScreenSteps and NativeDoc to ease the creation of documentation. Zydogact, which makes it easier to set up a in-product purchase/activation/registration system than to spell that products name. Database users will appreciate having the high-performance Valentina database engine; FMPro Migrator to convert FileMaker data and layouts; SQLite Diff to manage database content; and SQL Yoga to make it more efficient to script database operations.
Your Holidays, Now in 3D!
But the headliner product this year is an all-new product: the super-exciting Franklin 3D Pro, which brings super-smooth, hi-res, 3D animation to the Revolution platform. It unlocks the power of OpenGL or Direct 3D on Windows and Macintosh. (You get both versions!)
Use free or low-cost programs like Google Sketch to create 3D objects (the program supports an extensive array of 3D object formats) then bring them into Rev. Use revTalk together with Franklin 3D to manipulate and animate them. The program supports character movement; particle physics; rippling, reflective liquid surfaces; and terrain management. And of course, it's royalty-free to distribute with your apps.
Franklin 3D truly opens up new vistas for creating games with Rev. Or, if you're more serious-minded: simulations, virtual tours, and more. Franklin 3D is hot — MegaBundle purchasers are getting one of the final pre-release editions, will be the first to receive the actual shipping version, and enjoy a year of updates and upgrades after that. Franklin 3D Pro alone is worth $299, but it's included as part of your 2010 Holiday MegaBundle.
Room for Dessert?
That's not all. There's even more training, useful tools for localization, a spell checker, icons and sounds you can use and redistribute with your software, and much, much more. Check out the official MegaBundle home page for more info.
All in all, it's a mind-boggling value in software - just about $4,000.00 worth of our best stuff. A comprehensive collection of premium add-ons available for Rev. It will accelerate your development time, enable new features in your software, and help you produce professional results.
"There's no 'catch' here," said Heather Nagey, who manages the revSelect program for RunRev. "It's about our revSelect vendors teaming up to expose as many people as possible to the full array of terrific software they've produced, and give back to the Rev community."
If you've ever had an interest in these great value-added products, now is the time to purchase, because there won't be a better price for this collection.
2009 Holiday MegaBundle Word Search
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animationENGINE
chartsENGINE
FmProMigrator
FranklinThreeD
IconPeople
ListMagic
MangoTraining
MeshBox
Mojo
NativeDoc
NativeSpeak
OneYearUpdates
QuartamPDF
revEnterprise
RunRevLiveDVDs
ScreenSteps
SpellCheck
SQLiteDIFF
SQLYoga
tRev
tText
Valentina
Zygodact
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