Yeti3d Engine Mystery - Reward Offered

[craigix]

As you will know Yeti3D is a highly optimised 3D engine which was ported to the GP32 and ran at 133mhz.

We wanted to licence it for use on the GP2X but have hit a brick wall - Derek vanished from the internet in 2004. ThunderZ who ported the GP32 version has not heard from him in over a year. Me and Woogal searched and came up with nothing.

http://www.devmaster.net/engines/engine_details.php?id=59

Is the main page about the engine, the Yeti3D homepage has lapsed and is gone.

I'm offering up 50UKP if anyone can get me in contact with Derek J. Evans

Someone must know what happened? Has something bad happened? Did big N buy the engine? Did Derek abandon the engine as a loss?

Thanks,

Craig

 

[deadlychicken22]

doing a quick search I came up with this e-mail adress:
annikapaige[at]bigpond.com
I thought about sending an e-mail to it to make sure, but decided it would be better for you to be the one sending the e-mail.

 

[craigix]

I have already sent an email to it, no reply (yet).

 

[deadlychicken22]

I have already sent an email to it, no reply (yet).

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how long ago was that? well, i'll keep searching, not only for the reward but because it would be awsome to have this on the gp2x (that's why you're posting it here, right?)

 

[judge0]

Edit: Deleted

 

[Ravnos]

I've heard that the GPL version of Yeti3D wasn't the same as the one that was for sale, that there were some features left out. I can't confirm this obviously, seeing as how I've never seen the full version's source (nor the GPL-ed version, for that matter. I figure it's over my head right now.) At any rate, that's probably why craigix wants to talk to this fellow.

 

[chris_r]

What's the difference between the commercial version and the gpl version? And if the commercial version was bough, who would be entitled to use it eg. all devs or devs would have to pay for an individual license

 

[whiskthecat]

doing a quick search I came up with this e-mail adress:
annikapaige[at]bigpond.com
I thought about sending an e-mail to it to make sure, but decided it would be better for you to be the one sending the e-mail.

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Thats what I get too. I just typed "Derek J. Evans" into google australia because bigpond.com is a broadband company from australia and the only thing google returns is "annikapaige@bigpond.com"

Also searching for derek evans on australian white-pages returns no results.

 

[craigix]

Ah I knew i could rely on you guys to do some digging, keep up the good work I'm sure one of you will get in touch with him soon.

 

[whiskthecat]

Hehe if no one finds anything you could always dictionary attack bigpond.com under the user name annikapaige@bigpond.com .

 

[deadlychicken22]

Ok, i've found another e-mail adress:
dmangels [at] bigpond.net.au
I will send him an e-mail and see if he responds.

EDIT: well, my e-mail came back to me, that e-mail adress doesn't exist anymore...

 

[judge0]

Craigix , try PM'ing AlienKinetics on this board. . .

 

[Muncher666]

Last Active 7th November 2003 - 05:07 PM.

Allan.

 

[joshadams]

derek.evans@gne.com.au

I know he is from adeliade in south australia. This is the only email of a derek evans working in adeliade.

Hope this works craigx

 

[FabreNZ]

Here's his Australian phone number:

That's the best I could do

EDIT: In case Derek's number has changed, try contacting Torlus - he helped with the Yeti3D engine (his name is on some of the screenshots): greg@torlus.com
He's also a member of these forums, under the name Torlus.

[Private information edited out. Please PM this to whoever needs it instead of posting it on a public forum for all to see, you galactic idiot]

 

[rokdcasbah]

note to self...do not send spam to anybody on this board...

 

[Muncher666]

Here's his Australian phone number:

(08) 8370 0371

That's the best I could do

EDIT: In case Derek's number has changed, try contacting Torlus - he helped with the Yeti3D engine (his name is on some of the screenshots): greg@torlus.com
He's also a member of these forums, under the name Torlus.

EDIT2: If all else fails, try contacting the company that previously hosted his website (theteahouse.com.au) to see if they still have his contact details: vendercom@vendercom.com Although you may have a better chance if you speak to them: + 61-3-9589-7946 (9am-5pm ACDT)

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Tried his aussie phone number, it's no longer connected sadly. The number for his web providers sent me to a company called Trellion (sp?).

EDIT: Torlus: 6th January 2006 - 09:35 PM. There's a chance, then. I doubt we'll get anything out of Vendercom though, privacy laws and all that.

Allan.

 

[Tobriand]

Well, his hosts might not be able to disclose contact information, but if you explain the situation (i.e. you want to pay him a lot of money), then they might be willing to contact him on your behalf with details for him to contact you if they get through...

 

[Fez]

(08) 8370 0371

Hmm that looks like a perth number

try 08 9370 0371

I could look up the local phone directory

or you could try yellow or white pages online?

 

[Vimacs]

http://searchenginez.com/reverse_phone.html theres a list of companys who find out adresses to phone numbers for a little charge, maybe this works out.

http://find.intelius.com/search-name.php?searchform=phone has the number in the db, they take 15$ for the data