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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 ...
Macromedia Director 8.5 was released in 2001 and was the first version to specifically target the video game industry. [10] It introduced 3D capabilities, 3D text, toon shading, Havok physics, Real Video, Real Audio, integration with Macromedia Flash 5, behaviors, and other enhancements.
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.
John Henry Michael "JT" Thompson (born June 15, 1959) [1] is the inventor of the Lingo programming language used in Adobe Director and a former Chief Scientist at Macromedia.
In December 2005, Adobe and Macromedia merged, under the Adobe Systems name. The most recent version of Authorware is 7.02; version 7 was released in 2003. The Authorware player has some issues with Internet Explorer 7 and later under Windows Vista due to Protected mode as well as runtime errors due to a bug in Authorware's implementation of ...
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.
Director was weighed down by six releases of accumulated legacy, and in particular because its original target was the CD-ROM market, not the Web. Initially, the nascent Flash team within Macromedia was quite small, with few engineers beyond Gay and Tatsumi, and corporate R&D investment in Director remained high.
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 ...