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1998: Macromedia Director 6.5 was released (QuickTime 3 support & Xtra integration) November 16, 1998: Macromedia Director 7 was released (engine rewrite) 2000: Macromedia Director 8 was released; 2001: Macromedia Director 8.5 was released (Shockwave3D) 2002: Macromedia Director MX was released (also known as Director 9) January 5, 2004 ...
In December 1996 Macromedia acquired FutureWave and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0. The original naming of SWF came out of Macromedia's desire to capitalize on the well-known Macromedia Shockwave brand; Macromedia Director produced Shockwave files for the end user, so the files created by their newer Flash product tried to ...
The Shockwave player was originally developed for the Netscape browser by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin, Sarah Allen, and Ken Day, influenced by a previous plug-in that Macromedia had created for Microsoft's Blackbird. Version 1.0 of Shockwave was released independent of Director 4 and its development schedule has ...
Shockwave Player was released with Director 4.0 around 1995, and branded Shockwave Player 1.0. Its versioning has since been tied to Director's versioning, skipping versions 2 to 4. Shockwave was now a two-part system, a graphics and animation editor known as Macromedia Director, and a player known as Macromedia Shockwave Player.
Macromedia was formed from the April 1992 merger of Authorware Inc. (makers of Authorware) and MacroMind–Paracomp (makers of MacroMind Director).At the time, analysts estimated the multimedia software industry to be worth $200 million, and the combined company would control 20% of the market.
Lingo was invented by John H. Thompson at MacroMind in 1989, and first released with Director 2.2. Jeff Tanner developed and tested Lingo for Director 2.2 and 3.0, created custom XObjects for various media device producers, language extension examples using XFactory including the XFactory application programming interface (API), and wrote the initial tutorials on how to use Lingo.
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A hidden Homestar Runner cartoon could be found in Macromedia Central by opening the "About Macromedia Central" dialog box, holding down Ctrl (or command on Macintoshes) and double-clicking on the logo. [2] This brings up a password entry box. Enter "sbemail" as the password, and the cartoon will play in the dialog box.