[Hopperxx] converting .dir and/or .dcr to HTML5 and/or other languages

[Danny Kodicek]

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...

On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 at 21:50, Jim Andrews <jim at vispo.com> wrote:

> Hello dear Hopper folks,
>
> I have a question and issue to raise with you about conversion of
> Director stuff to HTML5 (or other formats).
>
> I am a newbie at using AI in my programming practice--just started the
> day before yesterday with Copilot in VSCode. So far so good.
>
> But a friend of mine is intent upon using more powerful AI tools to
> convert the Arteroids (https://arteroids.vispo.com) source code .dir
> into html5.
>
> Not surprisingly, the thing he's having problems with is the dir format.
> There is a published format for SWF, and there's a decompiler for
> Director, but I guess AIs are going to have big problems trying to
> 'translate' dir or dcr files.
>
> Has anyone approached Adobe about making some (at least) documentation
> about Director public so we can try to salvage and convert the IMMENSE
> work many of us did in creating Director work?
>
> And what is out there now, if anything at all?
>
> ja
> https://vispo.com
>
>
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