Hell ya! Aurick thanks for being so helpful with my email sent to you yesterday…you da man…
I had two error messages with Zip Magic, but my tests of the program so far suggest that the program itself is working ok
No don’t agree with you Antimorph, I have now had the program for two years and have had too many serial number problem’s. I look forward to a permanent, permanent serial number, so I can be certain that everytime I open the program it works.
When telling interested people about the benefits of Zbrush, I have had to tell them about the serial number problem, to save me from being lynched later when they found out. A majority that use their program’s for work, say, " What! a download program that requires you to be continually dependent on the producer’s, to be able to use it. How much is it £50, because it would need to be, with that disability".
I welcome the permanent number, it will now eliminate a serious dysfuntion when telling people what Z is about. I’m afraid commercialy Antimorph you don’t live in the real world, and to be sure Z hits the main computer graphics world, it has to be commercialy viable.
Dave
touché 
@ Antimorph
I’m afraid I can’t share your view on the temporary serial: it’s this simple: the purchase of a permanent license should equal a permanent serial (in my view) - this has nothing to do with the fact that I appreciate ZBrush very much… I also cherish other software and was by purchase entitled to a permanent license.
Furthermore I am quite certain there was news that a permanent serial was going to be implemented with the update and my purchase was certainly influenced by this information.
Best regards!
well I am now a part of the big boy club again…just got my upgrade and it is running like a champion!!! No problems at all with the download or installation. Thnx pix and gang!!
I’m now a happy camper.
I called Digital River and got the number downloads increased.
I was able to download right away.
I had a small snag at unzipping it, but I renamed the icon[].bin file to icon.bin and I was able to unzip everything.
The temporary S/N in the zip file worked first try. 
There is a post from Aurick in the support forum that the number of downloads will be increased for the orders, so no one should have to call Digital River in future about that problem.
1.55b is awesome and I look forward in creating some models for Unreal Tournament 2003.
Bye,
Dave
Celebrations, you’ve gotten it done at last! 
Happy New Z!! 
I have to side with those wishing for a permanent serial. I know piracy is a huge problem for developers, artists, etc., but anything is better than a temporary solution. I learned graphics on an Amiga (don’t laugh, it’s got a 200mHz PPC, 80MB RAM etc.) and once of the programs I was most excited by was called Tornado3D by an Italian comapny called Eyelight. They were very concerned by piracy, as well they should have been given the nature and size of the Amiga market. Their initial solution was to require a dongle for the software to run. Two versions later they added a user specific key generator and requested the key disk be mailed back to them. It wasn’t a hopeless procedure though it was a bit flaky and many users had a hard time getting it to work on their configurations. 6 months later, Eyelight disappeared without a trace, never to be heard from again. So while it’s possible to run nearly any other Amiga 3D app under emulation, or even on one of the newer PPC systems (AmigaOne/Pegasos), there is no way to use T3D on any machine other than an Amiga originally supported by the dongle/keyfile combo. I certainly don’t expect Pixologic to go away, nor do I expect to be without the internet anytime soon. However if either of these things were to happen, I’d be a legal user of zBrush and yet unable to use it perhaps ever again. Who’d among us could stand that?
Version 1.55b users can send in for a permanent serial number. In addition, the time sensitivity experienced by many users with previous versions has been eliminated. Finally, should something ever happen to Pixologic, we would not leave our customers high and dry.
So there is no need for concern, either now or in the future!
With version 1.55, we recommend that you first run ZBrush for a few days to make sure that there were no hidden problems with your download. Once you are satisfied that the program is performing as expected, follow the instructions in Serial_Number.txt to send in for your permanent serial number.
Happy ZBrushing!
Fantastic job!! I’ve played around alot today and I can see I’m very behind the learning curve. LOL I’m really going to enjoy catching up tho when possible!
Thanks so much to the whole pixologic team for all your hard work!!
Wenna don’t worry if you have any trouble, just ask! There are plenty of people here to help you!
Thanks a lot, Pixologic team members and all you helpful wizards out there! A new era of exploring has just started!
Kindest regards from Switzerland!
Marco
Just yesterday I determined its well time I got to grips with Zbrush as more than merely a way to do poser morphs ( v. pathetic, I know ) went to the Zbrush forum at R’osity to have a nosey and found the links for… a new version and manual -it must be a SIGN !! Thanks very much !!! No turning back now
Any way to get this version now? I would like to see it and play with it
No. Because every release of ZBrush has been a free upgrade for anyone who ever purchased a license, Pixologic does not sell or release outdated versions. Plus, it would be a support nightmare.
4R7 has all the features of 1.55b, but better. And more.
thanks for the answer! it’s a pity 
Hi,
why do you want to play with a very, very, very old ZBrush version from 2003?
If you don’t own the current ZBrush version then you can download and use the trail version of the current ZBrush version
Link: https://pixologic.com/zbrush/trial/
just to see how it started. which tools were available. how it worked and stuff.
Hi,
maybe the Feature Tour from year 2003 could be a little bit helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20030208124154/http://pixologic.com/
BTW: I don’t believe that you can order the 1.5 Demo version via this old page 
thanks for the link.
maybe. but where should I ask about Zbrush if not at Pixologic site?