<div dir="ltr">Adobe / Macromedia always insisted there was no way to decompile .dcrs (although that always sounded unlikely to me). But IIRC .dirs were like .docs - just zip files with a different name. Theoretically I think you should be able to rename them to .zip and open them up. That might only be true for later editions of Director, though - and it might not be true at all! Maybe I'm just making it up...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 at 21:50, Jim Andrews <<a href="mailto:jim@vispo.com">jim@vispo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello dear Hopper folks,<br>
<br>
I have a question and issue to raise with you about conversion of <br>
Director stuff to HTML5 (or other formats).<br>
<br>
I am a newbie at using AI in my programming practice--just started the <br>
day before yesterday with Copilot in VSCode. So far so good.<br>
<br>
But a friend of mine is intent upon using more powerful AI tools to <br>
convert the Arteroids (<a href="https://arteroids.vispo.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arteroids.vispo.com</a>) source code .dir <br>
into html5.<br>
<br>
Not surprisingly, the thing he's having problems with is the dir format. <br>
There is a published format for SWF, and there's a decompiler for <br>
Director, but I guess AIs are going to have big problems trying to <br>
'translate' dir or dcr files.<br>
<br>
Has anyone approached Adobe about making some (at least) documentation <br>
about Director public so we can try to salvage and convert the IMMENSE <br>
work many of us did in creating Director work?<br>
<br>
And what is out there now, if anything at all?<br>
<br>
ja<br>
<a href="https://vispo.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vispo.com</a><br>
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