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Shockwave Updated: New Snow Leopard Statement

An updated version of Shockwave was released today. When installing on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) it now gives you a message to run Safari in 32-bit mode. This is definitely friendlier than the prior message. (translate)

Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6), Shockwave, and Director

Apple has released the latest version of their operating system which is commonly referred to as Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6). What does this mean to users that want to see Shockwave-based content? What does this mean to those that author with Director MX 2004 or newer? What does this mean for projectors from Director MX [...] (translate)

Shockwave 3D vs. Google

Google introduced a new way to create 3D content for the web. Looks interesting. Most content on the web today is in 2D, but a lot of information is more fun and useful in 3D. Projects like Google Earth and SketchUp demonstrate our passion and commitment to enabling users to create and interact with 3D content. [...] (translate)

Firefox 3 and Mac: Solution to Vanishing Content

Ever since Firefox 3 came out there has been a problem on Macs where chunks/regions of the the displayed dcr file would would just “vanish” and show the background color of the html page you were viewing. [Note: With FF 3.0.1 I would rarely see this on a PC as well.] On Direct-L Valentin posted [...] (translate)

Updated Shockwave 11.5 is Under Development

From Allen on various mailing lists: Just an update, as I know many are interested. Early next week we plan to deliver a fix for the text line spacing (height) issue in Shockwave 11.5 to the Shockwave pre-release testers. Expect a Shockwave update following that session. Normally such cycles take a minimum of two weeks. (We [...] (translate)

Director/Shockwave 11.5 Gets Noticed

When Director 11 was released last year it really didn’t seem to get mentioned anywhere. It wasn’t until a few months ago that it showed up on MacUpdate. Things are quite different this time. Shockwave 11.5 has been in the top 5 of the MacUpdate Most Popular downloads since it came out. Director 11.5 got covered [...] (translate)

Director 11.5 Has Arrived

A new version of Director was released today, along with a new version of Shockwave. You can download Director, Shockwave, as well as many demos at this location (you’ll need to login with your Adobe ID). Let the fun begin! Update: Director 11.5 can also be found on Amazon. Update 2: List of features: Enriched audio capabilities Make your games [...] (translate)

Director Game Takes 2nd Place

The uDevGames contest recently announced the winners. The contest is “iDevGames’ unique grass-roots initiative to highlight our community to gamers, as well as a development platform capable of producing the most innovative cross-platform titles in the industry.” Constellation (created with Director) won 2nd place in the Best Overall, Best Gameplay, and Best Presentation categories! Congratulations Matthew! (translate)

Director Session at GDC

For those that develop games and are going to the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco next week be sure to go to the Director-related session. It will be held on Wednesday March 25, 2009 from 10:30-11:30am. The session description says: Allen Partridge, Adobe Systems, hosts professional 3D game developers Pieter Albers and Diederick Groesbeek, Xform [...] (translate)

Number of Director Developers = ???

This past week a FOSE 2009 took place. I’m not sure what FOSE stands for but the event was a technology tradeshow and conference for government IT. Someone from Adobe was speaking and said that there are about 200,000 Director developers. Is that number larger than you thought? Smaller? Needless to say, this sparked a bit [...] (translate)

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