 Some of the design choices and experiences for Blender were carried over from an earlier software application, called Traces, that Ton Roosendaal developed for NeoGeo on the Commodore Amiga platform during the 1987–1991 period.On January 1, 1998, Blender was released publicly online as SGI freeware.NeoGeo was later dissolved and its client contracts were taken over by another company.