Broderbund 3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe 6 OLD VERSION

3D Home Architect Home Design Deluxe makes planning your dream home a pleasure, instead of a chore. Floor plans, remodeling or working on additions is problems at all for this software. Begin planning the perfect home with software like that used by real architects & designers! Budgeting tools and materials lists make it possible for you to break ground with confidence Landscaping and garden modeling tools are included — create a beautiful yard to compliment the home of your dreams!

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Just fine for $13.50
Got it today. It is a little clunky, and you have to be patient when using “duplicate”, etc, but I have the first floor about done, and it works okay. Has stopped once but no big deal, just leave auto-save on. Have not used stuff like this before. It will really help my wife picture things. It isn’t real intuitive, but it suffices. The help menu and index is sparse. The views are okay, but the rotation in 3D is slow on this 1.X gigahertz 500MB ram 64MB video card machine. Good night. I hope to have my house plans done within a week.

Update after several weeks: still same opinion. Works, decent graphics, and my wife did appreciate the opportunity to view what things ‘might’ look like, so the rendering was acceptable. I would recommend to someone who is just wanting to visualize a home, and maybe play a little with sizing up rooms, re-locating doors and windows, etc.

1 Star User hostile program!
I began using 3D Home Architect years ago and found I could do most anything I wanted with version 4 deluxe. Then I tried this POS, which is as user-hostile as any program I’ve ever encountered. Not intuitive, takes ages to set up defaults to make it do what you want it to do, pitiful documentation and tech support, not able to import plans from previous versions (even using the industry standard DFX files - but the did warn me). Version 4 and earlier were written by Chief Architect; later versions by Punch Software. Go try something by CA, like Better Homes & Gardens Home Designer. The only reason I gave this product 1 star is because there is no lower rating!

4 Stars He loves it!
Ordered this for my fiance’s birthday. It arrived just on time, and he loves it!

3 Stars Powerful But Buggy
The most powerful of the consumer level design applications. Lots and lots of capability, but the bugs will drive you crazy. Walls disappear, cabinets stretch to infinity, the roof building feature will make you cut your wrists. Views add levels to themselves unbidden. Lots of hard reboots. They should have left in the capabilities and fixed the bugs, instead of dumbing down subsequent versions.

1 Star Absolutely awful
In a word. CRASH!!

The only thing good was Amazon gave me a full refund.

Dont waste your time on it.

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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit English 1pk

1PK VISTA HOME PREM 64BIT DVD

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Amazingly slow
I have been using Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit version patiently for several months now. The “performance indicator” says my Windows Vista experience is a 5.6 out of a possible 5.9 — this is supposed to be some indication of how fast my hardware is. So, my hardware is top notch — brand new HP quad core Phenom 2.4 GHz processor with 8GB of RAM. As a matter of fact, all my hardware gets a 5.9/5.9 except my video card. But, as soon as I boot, I notice the OS is using 1.5GB of RAM, before I touch anything. If I leave Internet Explorer open, it has a memory leak that gets progressively worse and completely overtakes the system within a few hours. I tried to play a movie, and it struggled to decode it fast enough — playback suffered immensely.

My patience has run out. I’m reverting back to Windows XP, or at least installing a dual boot configuration, because this machine is just silly slow. I have brand new, top-of-the-line 64-bit hardware and a crazy amount of RAM; and this machine feels slow. I’m amazed at how inferior of a product this is.

2 Stars vista?
I got Vista which was supposed to be compatible. If you are using Visual Studio, creating ASP.Net applications and connecting to Oracle databases you are out-of-luck. No solutions to that one.

2 Stars Got a Palm? It won’t sync
I just got off the phone with Palm — they have absolutely no products that will be compatible with this Microsoft 64 bit technology. No patches at all, either. So if you have a Palm — watch out — it will NOT work with this. Palm says Microsoft issue. You will not be able to use any Palm software at all. That means if you have a palm PDA, it will forever be stuck in the PDA and not go onto your computer at all, if you get this software.

2 Stars “Such-and-Such Program Has Stopped Working”
…and that’s all she wrote, folks.

Vista is the worst investment I ever made. I would gladly switch back to Windows XP at any time, but then my 8GB of Ram won’t be detected and the computer definitely wouldn’t run to it’s full capacity. Perhaps that’s the only appeal of Vista at this point…being able to run so much Ram that no one is actually going to need for another 4 years (and yes I’m guilty of it too). I have had nothing but problems with this OS since the day it was installed.

If you’re looking to purchase the 64-bit Windows Vista package, make sure that you don’t need your computer for anything important. I can get nothing to work on this computer at all. Everything you have probably heard about Vista’s compatibility issues is true…virtually everything I’ve tried to use so far has not worked. This includes important peripherals and necessary programs. With my previous computer dying of old age and the tremendous deal on OEM parts on NewEgg, I figured Vista was definitely the way to go. I am so badly regretting that decision now. We use my wife’s 5 year old Dell laptop as the primary computer now since my Vista desktop is basically only good for gaming and nothing else.

Here’s a list of all the things that are thus far incompatible with Vista. This is all from first-hand experience:

- Dell Printers

- Limewire

- Olympus Digital Cameras

- Canon Digital Camera

- Various types of USB optical mouse

- Dell Jukebox MP3 Players

- I-Pods

- I-Tunes

- Digital Camcorders

- Roughly 80% of games created pre-2006 (that I’ve tried)

- Various Dell Scanners

- Various HP Printers and Scanners

- Various USB-related devices

- Various speaker systems

- And more every day

I had Vista professionally installed…I don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to installations like that so I wanted to have it done by someone who knows what they are doing. When I gave the person the parts and Vista, I thought he was joking when he said “I’ll see you again in about a month when you want to downgrade back to XP.” If I had only known then what I know now. In one month of owning Vista i’ve had nothing but frustration and anger. The only thing it does well is run World of Warcraft, and my wife is thrilled at the amount of space we have for her Real Arcade games.

I probably sound like I’m just whining…well, I’m one of the many who have had nothing but problems with Vista. As badly as my old computer was running before it just died, it still was compatible with everything I owned. Since I “upgraded” to Vista 64 with my new computer, I haven’t been able to print, scan, load pictures onto my computer, or do anything else that any home office NEEDS.

Don’t be an idiot like me and get Vista because you want 8 gigs of ram, which you DO NOT NEED for any logical reason. XP 64 works just as good, and you won’t have to deal with Vista’s rampant issues. Just think of Vista as the Next “Windows 2000″. Since the new Windows is launching in 2009, Vista is just another Microsoft stumbling block that’s costing us too much money and wasted time. I’m glad I bought this trash product OEM and didn’t pay full price. This is the worst OS I have ever used. Go with XP and stay away from Vista at all costs.

5 Stars Good but…
I would recommend this to any gamer BUT, it has problems running some older games. Also, the other big draw back I wish I would of known about, is you can not really play Game Tap anymore except for the 8-bit games…BIG turn off to me

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