I new ack from version 1, and even before that when it went by another name before Conitec bought it!
There never was a version 1 from Conitec. They began with version 3.
Before Conitec bought the engine, it was called ACK and then AckNex. ACK stood for Animation Character Kit, if I remember correctly. And ACKNEX was the same, but the NEXt iteration of the engine. Conitec kept the original name of the engine, so it never has changed from the name the original creator (Lary Myers) gave it. Version 3, the first by Conitec, was the next version after AckNex.
