<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">sounds like a good approach, Jim. keep us posted!</div><div dir="ltr">-paul</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 2, 2026, at 16:59, Jim Andrews &lt;jim@vispo.com&gt; wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff

  
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    <p>Here's what I'm going to do to use Claude Code to create an HTML5
      version of Arteroids ( arteroids.vispo.com ) which was originally
      written in Director.</p>
    <p>I have already done a few weeks of work creating small parts of
      the JavaScript/HTML/CSS. That will be hopefully a good foundation
      for how 'we' will proceed.</p>
    <p>I'm going to break the job down into small steps. For each small
      step, such as the creation of the Main Menu, I'm going to create a
      PDF spec, which I will get Claude to read before starting that
      particular step. Claude can ask me questions after reading it. The
      PDF will contain text and screenshots about the feature, and will
      describe what I want done in great detail.&nbsp;<br>
      I will then iterate once or twice and then edit the code myself to
      hammer it into shape. And test it, debug it. Before moving on to
      the next small step.&nbsp;</p>
    <p>I may also include in the PDF Lingo scripts from the original
      Arteroids source code that Claude can base his/its work on. I had
      some success with that when I asked Claude to create a gradient
      animation that was done with Lingo.</p>
    <p>ja</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2026-01-26 1:48 a.m., Danny Kodicek
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">The project wasn't trying to make a complete port
        of Flash, just the parts that we used, but it did cover quite a
        bit of the AS3 library. Most of flash.display, also
        flash.events, flash.geom, and a few others. In theory I'm sure
        we could have done the whole thing.&nbsp;
        <div>You're right that Director would have been a lot harder,
          not just because Lingo is different from ActionScript but
          because Pixi is very closely modelled on Flash, so there was a
          close correspondence between concepts. We did do a very
          similar project several&nbsp;years ago when we first ported our
          software across from Director to Flash, and it was definitely
          a lot more work. But again, we did create that interstitial
          layer of code, so rather than using Flash's Point and Rect
          objects, for example, we created our own classes called DPoint
          and DRect that were modelled on Lingo's version, so that we
          didn't have to check through every instance in our code where
          we used them. In theory, we might have done the same thing for
          Lingo's List objects, so that we could continue to use 1-based
          addresses instead of 0-based.</div>
        <div>It definitely wouldn't be a small job, but I'm sure it's
          doable. I'm much more sceptical about doing it using AI,
          though. AI's great at pattern recognition, but those
          conceptual differences between Director and HTML5 require a
          lot of creative problem solving. And the danger with using AI
          is that it produces such plausible-looking code that it might
          take as long to debug as it would to do the original project
          yourself</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 00:41,
          Jim Andrews &lt;<a href="mailto:jim@vispo.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">jim@vispo.com</a>&gt;
          wrote:<br>
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            <p>Hi Danny,</p>
            <p>I expect you're familiar with Ruffle ( <a href="https://ruffle.rs" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://ruffle.rs</a>
              ), which many people use to emulate Flash work. Was the
              Flash work you were dealing with too advanced for Ruffle?</p>
            <p>I suppose ActionScript, being quite JavaScripty, was a
              kind of natural for your approach. Of course, Lingo
              isn't.&nbsp;</p>
            <p>If I understand you correctly,&nbsp;DisplayObjectContainer,
              DisplayObject, BitmapData etc would be the classes from
              which Flash media members are constructed. For the most
              part? But Actionscript involves all sorts of things other
              than media members.&nbsp;</p>
            <p>Could you flesh out your ideas a bit more and tell me why
              you think this would work with Lingo and Director?</p>
            <p>ja</p>
            <div>On 2026-01-25 10:05 a.m., Danny Kodicek wrote:<br>
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              <div dir="ltr">I haven't looked at translating Director
                across, but for what&nbsp;it's worth I have made a pretty
                reliable engine for porting AS3 across to TypeScript
                using the PixiJS framework. The basic principle was to
                make an interstitial layer of classes that mimic the AS3
                library (DisplayObjectContainer, DisplayObject,
                BitmapData etc) but translate all the concepts across to
                Pixi. Then we simply transpiled our AS3 code into
                TypeScript, calling these classes. So as far as our
                original code is concerned, it still "thinks" it's
                running in Flash. I'd probably handle a project like
                this in much the same&nbsp;way</div>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at
                  17:24, Erik Loyer &lt;<a href="mailto:erikcloyer@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">erikcloyer@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                  wrote:<br>
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                  <div>Hi all,
                    <div><br>
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                    <div>Great to see this thread. I\u2019ve been taking a
                      similar approach in trying to update my Shockwave
                      site Lair of the Marrow Monkey from back in the
                      day. Google\u2019s AI IDE Antigravity has been my tool
                      of choice lately, it\u2019s forked from the same editor
                      VS Code is based on so familiar to me. I have
                      access to the original .dir files for the project,
                      and so manually extracted the script files using
                      an&nbsp;<a href="https://infinitemac.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Infinite
                        Mac</a>&nbsp;emulator and created a CSV of the cast
                      that identifies the type and content of each
                      element. Then, I kicked off the process with a
                      prompt that tried to explain the project and a
                      little bit about Director. It\u2019s taken a fair
                      amount of iteration, but I\u2019ve had good results in
                      recreating a piece in the \u201csingle frame
                      script-based\u201d style. I\u2019ve enclosed the prompt
                      below in case it\u2019s helpful for anyone \u2014 would be
                      great if we could create something standardized
                      that explained Director to the LLM and that could
                      be reused for multiple projects. My prompt
                      includes a lot of specifics about this particular
                      piece, but hopefully still useful. Happy to
                      provide more details if helpful.
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>-Erik</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>\u2014\u2014</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>Prompt:</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>In this project, I am updating a 1998
                        Shockwave-based website called "The Lair of the
                        Marrow Monkey" to modern web standards. The
                        website contained various pages with Shockwave
                        player embeds, and I want to focus on porting
                        those embeds before rebuilding the website
                        itself. I've created a folder called "archive"
                        which will contain artifacts from the old
                        project, which was created in Macromedia
                        Director 6. I'd like to start with an embed
                        called "02". The "02" folder in "archive"
                        contains a CSV which describes the contents of
                        the "Cast," which was the name for a media and
                        script library in Director. Each row corresponds
                        to a single "cast member," and columns indicate
                        related content and metadata, unique to each
                        cast member type. For text and script cast
                        members, the content can be found in the
                        "02files" folder, in files with the same name.
                        The "Data" file contains data powering the
                        piece, while all of the other text files are
                        scripts written in the Lingo programming
                        language. Director files contained a "Score"
                        where media and scripts would be placed. "Init
                        Script" is the first script to be executed in
                        the score, so let's focus on porting it first,
                        with display and layout handled in HTML and CSS
                        as a baseline, and Javascript used for dynamic
                        elements. I've created a "ports" folder, and a
                        "02" folder inside of that, that is where we'll
                        assemble the ported version.</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>[This resulted in a detailed implementation
                        plan which I was prompted to approve, and things
                        proceeded from there...]</div>
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                            <div>On Jan 25, 2026, at 7:51\u202fAM, Robert
                              Gordon &lt;<a href="mailto:rob@article19.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">rob@article19.com</a>&gt;
                              wrote:</div>
                            <br>
                            <div>
                              <div>I don\u2019t have many Director projects
                                of any value lying around that I hadn\u2019t
                                already manually ported to Flash, then
                                HTML5 (with CanvasJS) then HTML5 again
                                (with PIXIJS) then again to a more
                                native-in-the-browser implementation
                                with lots of css.
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div>For fun, I did ask ChatGTP the
                                  following:</div>
                                <div><br>
                                </div>
                                <div><font size="3">Translate the
                                    following macromedia director lingo
                                    code into javascript:&nbsp;</font></div>
                                <div><font size="3">on exitFrame&nbsp;</font></div>
                                <div><font size="3"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">   </span>go
                                    to frame 7&nbsp;</font></div>
                                <div><font size="3">end</font><br id="m_8450887272454673606m_-499027875281710300lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage">
                                  <div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;font-size:11px"><br>
                                    </span></div>
                                  <div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">I
                                      was surprised and impressed at the
                                      response. It understands
                                      Director\u2019s use of a playback head
                                      and how to implement animation in
                                      JS. I wonder how many
                                      Directror/Lingo concepts it has a
                                      handle on. If you have access to
                                      all of the original media &amp;
                                      source code, then perhaps give up
                                      on decompiling the dir/dcr and
                                      focus on the code porting through
                                      ai with a different media
                                      management mindset (not sure how
                                      many of us were using
                                      sprite-sheets and texture-atlases
                                      back in the ole Director days\u2026).</span></div>
                                  <div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br>
                                    </span></div>
                                  <div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">Good
                                      luck!</span></div>
                                  <div> <span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;font-size:11px"><br>
                                      r o b</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;font-size:11px">
                                    <br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;font-size:11px">
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                                      Gordon</b><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;font-size:11px">
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                                      Article 19 Group Inc.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;font-size:11px">
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                                  <div><br>
                                    <blockquote type="cite">
                                      <div>On Jan 25, 2026, at 10:31\u202fAM,
                                        Paul Catanese &lt;<a href="mailto:catanese.paul@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">catanese.paul@gmail.com</a>&gt;
                                        wrote:</div>
                                      <br>
                                      <div>
                                        <div dir="ltr">Dear Jim-
                                          <div>Just&nbsp;wanted to pipe up
                                            that I'm fascinated and very
                                            interested in this
                                            direction; it would be great
                                            if it could bear fruit.&nbsp; I
                                            don't have time to focus on
                                            this deeplyy, but I am
                                            cheering you on, and wanted
                                            you to know it,&nbsp;and wanted
                                            to share some thoughts. The
                                            idea that an old director
                                            project could be translated
                                            to html5 seems like a great
                                            dream. Would love to see it.</div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div>I was not aware of the
                                              projectorrays project -
                                              this certainly could be of
                                              interest.</div>
                                            <div><br>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>I was also fascinated
                                            about Danny's comment about
                                            .dir's being.zip's - I
                                            didn't know that, but I had
                                            effectively shifted away
                                            from Director by around
                                            2006.</div>
                                          <div>Googling a bit, I did
                                            come across this post that
                                            speaks to the internal
                                            structure as an RIFX
                                            container.&nbsp;</div>
                                          <div><a href="https://nosamu.medium.com/a-tour-of-the-adobe-director-file-format-e375d1e063c0" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://nosamu.medium.com/a-tour-of-the-adobe-director-file-format-e375d1e063c0</a></div>
                                          <div>This direction is a bit
                                            lower-level than I'd want to
                                            get mixed up in, but could
                                            be useful&nbsp;in thinking about
                                            what needs to be extracted.</div>
                                          <div>There's a few references
                                            at the bottom of the
                                            document that&nbsp;may also be of
                                            interest, including the
                                            projectorrays project.</div>
                                          <div><br>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>Please forgive some
                                            preaching to the choir, but
                                            wanted to jot down some
                                            general thoughts:</div>
                                          <div>* Recalling that some
                                            projects used 1-frame loops
                                            w/parent-child scripts, some
                                            used "timeline only", and
                                            majority used a hybrid
                                            approach e.g. approaches
                                            where instances carried
                                            behavioral scripts - I would
                                            suspect that these different
                                            authored-project
                                            architectures might require
                                            differing translation
                                            approaches for HTML5.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div>
                                              <div>* Large multi .dir
                                                projects would likely
                                                derive back down to one
                                                of those cases.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
                                            </div>
                                            <div>* Functionalities
                                              provided by 3rd party
                                              xtras seem like another
                                              area of particular
                                              wrinkles to be unwound, as
                                              would some internal xtras
                                              like quicktime.</div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>* webgl should certainly
                                            be robust enough to handle
                                            shockwave 3d scenegraph
                                            &amp; related
                                            functionalities&nbsp;</div>
                                          <div><br>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>
                                            <div><b>emulation?</b></div>
                                            <div>In the net.art context,
                                              I had spoken with
                                              the&nbsp;Rhizome folks years
                                              ago, and their approach to
                                              preserving (flash) works
                                              was the emulation as a
                                              service model.&nbsp; They also
                                              did some interesting
                                              preservation techniques
                                              for director CD-Rom's in
                                              which old hardware would
                                              run projects natively, and
                                              then results streamed to
                                              clients - but the costs
                                              were personally way out of
                                              reach. I'm not even clear
                                              if they are still involved
                                              in anything like that. The
                                              approach you're talking
                                              about is a refreshing new
                                              angle for director works.
                                              That said, I did start to
                                              wonder what it would mean
                                              to have a software
                                              emulator, perhaps even a
                                              browser-based emulator
                                              that could run director
                                              projects, rather than
                                              converting them.&nbsp;</div>
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                                          <div><br>
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                                          <div><b>Bigger picture still</b></div>
                                          <div>Jon Ippollito &amp;
                                            Richard Rinehart's book:
                                            Re-Collection offers another
                                            thought - that new media art
                                            projects might be better
                                            considered as notation based
                                            (e.g. like music or
                                            theatrical productions) - so
                                            that recreating media
                                            artworks with new tools is
                                            part of their nature. I was
                                            at the WRO art center in
                                            Poland a few weeks ago, and
                                            they had recreated pieces
                                            like Camille Utterback's
                                            "text rain",&nbsp; as well as an
                                            early Paul Sharits piece,
                                            and a rutt-etra style video
                                            rasterization demo, among
                                            others, that fit into this
                                            framework - <a href="https://wrocenter.pl/pl/mi/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">check
                                              them out here</a>.&nbsp; The
                                            guy who did the heavy
                                            lifting: Pawel Janicki might
                                            be interested in your
                                            project.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
                                          <div><br>
                                          </div>
                                          <div>-paul</div>
                                          <div><br>
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                                          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat,
                                            Jan 24, 2026 at 7:46\u202fPM Jim
                                            Andrews &lt;<a href="mailto:jim@vispo.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">jim@vispo.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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                                              <p>Hi Danny,</p>
                                              <p>I expect you already
                                                know about
                                                ProjectorRays: <a href="https://github.com/ProjectorRays/ProjectorRays" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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.&nbsp;</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>On 2026-01-24 3:27
                                                p.m., Danny Kodicek
                                                wrote:<br>
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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, Jim Andrews
                                                    &lt;<a href="mailto:jim@vispo.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">jim@vispo.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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                                                  <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" 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>
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