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<p>Hi Danny,</p>
<p>I expect you already know about ProjectorRays:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/ProjectorRays/ProjectorRays">https://github.com/ProjectorRays/ProjectorRays</a> . It isn't
fantastic but it's something.</p>
<p>This friend of mine I mentioned says "I never used copilot. I am
in the IntelliJ ecosystem - WebStorm. They have in there "junie"
coding agent, which as far as i know built on top of Claude
model."</p>
<p>People are raving about Claude Code. Anyway, my friend seems to
think that this sort of AI could well convert something like .dir
files to HTML5. I'm not sure he appreciates the difficulty of the
problem--though he is a pro programmer. Maybe he does. </p>
<p>Anyway, I suspect that if we could get some specs and whatnot on
Director, that would help in the process.</p>
<p>All of us spent eons creating work with Director. Anyone else
interested or have info to share on this question??</p>
<p>ja</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2026-01-24 3:27 p.m., Danny Kodicek
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 at 21:50,
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dear Hopper folks,<br>
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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" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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>
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