[Hopperxx] RIP Director - January 27th, 2017

[Jim Andrews]

Very sorry to hear this. I guess eventually Shockwave content will only 
be viewable via  a virtual desktop serving up stuff from Windows XP and 
such. Probably not cheap. What's the story on that?

As chance would have it, I've recently met Marc Canter and did a little 
work for him. Neat guy.

The web has taken a step backwards from Director and Flash to HTML5. 
Less featureful and the tools aren't good. Mobile is a proprietary 
fiefdom. I suppose Unity is the alternative, at the moment.

I've tried to re-tool to 'responsive design' for mobile+desktop in 
JavaScript. Here are a couple of recent pieces. Would love to see some 
recent work from the Hopper greats. Including Shockwave or just 
documentation.

GLOBEBOP
http://globebop.com/web
Click the globe to be transported to a random location on the planet. 
Click the 'Star' button to be transported to a World Heritage Site. 
Click the magnifying glass (Search button) to read about where you are 
or search for locations. Click the Map View button to toggle between Map 
View and Street View. Here's an essay I wrote about Globebop: 
http://globebop.com

ALEPH NULL
http://vispo.com/alephTouch/an.html
Click the "destroy" and "create" buttons (or 'd' and 'c' keys) until you 
get a couple of brushes you like. Here's a slideshow of (mostly 1920 
x1080) images I created with Aleph Null 2.0: 
http://vispo.com/alephTouch/slideshow . Here's an essay I wrote about 
Aleph Null 2.0 and the screenshots: 
http://vispo.com/alephTouch/slideshow/info.htm

Regards,
Jim Andrews


On 2/15/2017 4:18 PM, Joshua Chunick wrote:
> Wow! I haven't heard about Director in a number of years and now 
> within days I've heard about it twice... but the news is sad despite 
> having moved on from Director for some time now. :-(
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Roy Pardi <lists at roypardi.com 
> <mailto:lists at roypardi.com>> wrote:
>
>     Huh? What? Is there going to be a wake?
>
>
>>     On Feb 15, 2017, at 5:23 PM, Andy Fuchs <andy at foxwerk.de
>>     <mailto:andy at foxwerk.de>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     What the heck is Director?? ��
>>
>>
>>>     Am 15.02.2017 um 17:17 schrieb Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net
>>>     <mailto:coiin at verizon.net>>:
>>>
>>>     Or whine, as the case may be.
>>>
>>>
>>>>     On Feb 15, 2017, at 9:10 AM, Raman Pfaff <raman.pfaff at gmail.com
>>>>     <mailto:raman.pfaff at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     A fine wine takes time. :)
>>>>
>>>>     Rp
>>>>
>>>>     On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Colin Holgate
>>>>     <coiin at verizon.net <mailto:coiin at verizon.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         This message took a while to arrive!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>         On Feb 1, 2017, at 12:44 PM, Kettles, Buzz
>>>>>         <buzzkett at ku.edu <mailto:buzzkett at ku.edu>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>         http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/27/adobe-will-stop-selling-contribute-and-director-on-february-1-drop-shockwave-for-mac-support-on-march-14/
>>>>>         <http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/27/adobe-will-stop-selling-contribute-and-director-on-february-1-drop-shockwave-for-mac-support-on-march-14/>
>>>>>
>>>>>         Adobe will stop selling Contribute and Director on
>>>>>         February 1, drop Shockwave for Mac support on March 14
>>>>>
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