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

[Jim Andrews]

Hi Danny,

I expect you already know about ProjectorRays: 
https://github.com/ProjectorRays/ProjectorRays . It isn't fantastic but 
it's something.

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."

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.

Anyway, I suspect that if we could get some specs and whatnot on 
Director, that would help in the process.

All of us spent eons creating work with Director. Anyone else interested 
or have info to share on this question??

ja

On 2026-01-24 3:27 p.m., Danny Kodicek wrote:
> 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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