News and Views
Hotfix 01 (Director 11 on Mac OS X)
25th of April, 2008
Hotfix 01 is out -- get it here
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403452&sliceId=1
Fixes problems referencing cast member fails when the Cast name has special character, streaming problems with Shockwave Audio (SWA) and slow 'Field component performance'
(Posted by Admin)Andrade Arts is back!
24th of April, 2008
Like a successful full-forward for a team in its premiership window, Andrade Arts/ is back from retirement - with a new Universal Binary version of its Resolution Xtra for Mac Director 11!
(Posted by Luke)Director 11 is out! Really!
10th of April, 2008
Director 11 is out! Really! (You'd never know by visiting Adobe.com). The big changes (Unicode, MacIntel Support) have meant it can be a lot of work to make Xtras compatible with Director 11. This has thrown a blowtorch on Xtra developers and a few have, unfortunately, announced they will not be updating or continuing to sell Xtras and are shutting up shop. Some notable losses include
- http://www.andradearts.com/
- http://www.updatestage.com/
- OSControls (!!!)
Note that Xtras from Gary Smith (BuddyAPI, BuddyFile), Tabuleiro (vList, Arca etc), Marmalade (Amplitude), INM (Impressario,SecureNet etc), Schmittmachine (asFFT etc) have already been updated for Director 11, Chris Thorman has indicated that he is planning to update the fabulous (and free) PregEx Xtra (yay!), Electronic Ink has announced D11 version of Printomatic and hopefully the proficient Valentin Schmidt will update his many useful Xtras.
Also note that the Mile High Table from Updatestage has found a new home on Dean's site
(Posted by Admin)Director 11 is out!
25th of March, 2008
Lock up your children and Flash coders, Adobe have released Director 11. Get it here
(Posted by Luke)Director 11!! Director 11!! Director 11!! Director 11!! Director 11!!
19th of February, 2008
Macro
Adobe have announced Director 11 and are taking pre-orders. New (and 'enhanced') features include
- Unicode Supprt (aft!)
- DirectX 9 support
- "Support for Flash CS3 Professional software and video created with Flash"
- "Advanced physics with included AGEIA? PhysX? engine"
- Text rendering and bitmap filters
Check it out: http://www.adobe.com/products/director/features/
(Posted by Luke)It has been quiet, but thats all about to change...
11th of February, 2008
Lots happening in Lingo land over Jan/Feb so far. Version 4 of the Lingoworkshop’s One Sprite Widgets are about to be released (now compatible with LDMs, and have full key-board control) as well as some new tutorials (side scrolling game and multiuser chat environments). Elsewhere,
Magicgate Software's Director Podcast is back after a lengthy hiatus. And the word is that there will be an official announcement from Adobe regarding the imminent release of Director 11. Exciting stuff.
Its summer time, and the fishing is easy...
21st of December, 2007
Happy holidays and see y'all in the new year. Should be an interesting year with Director 11 due any time now (maybe January?)
(Posted by Luke Wigley)Director 11 is coming! Lock up your IDEs and head for the hills!
4th of October, 2007
Some early reports MAX regarding what Adobe have to say about Director have been fairly underwhelming:
- Flash Player 9 / Actionscript 3 support
- Mac Intel/ Vista / DirectX9
- unicode support
- new 'Adobe CSS' UI
- nine new bitmap filters
However, it appears that the code base for Director has been completely overhauled
with an eye on future development (Director 12 and 13 are already being discussed).
Also, it appears that there are plans to sell Director for $99 to students
(a good way to increase the user base).
Shockwave 10.2.0.023
23rd of August, 2007
Apparently Shockwave 10.2.0.023 for Windows has been released which no longer redirects users to Shockwave.com at the end of the installation - a little 'feature' that has driven developers mad and turned away publishers (I mean, site owners are working hard-enough to get visitors to their sites and having shockwave installers that sends the visitors away to another site is really, really unhelpful. Also, its hard convincing Shockwave's non-games publishers to treat Shockwave seriously when the installer sends users off to a game site).
Anyway, lets hope this removal is a permanent feature of shockwave (and not an oversight)
(Posted by Admin)Spam, Email and Capitalism Gawn Mad
20th of July, 2007
Spam email, spam referrers, spam comments, spam, spam, spam. Some days, the poor old server can barely cope. Recently, a whole bunch of emails sent via the LingoWorkshop enquiry form have been discovered buried under a pile of spam
Some days, Spam - along with repeats of 'Big Brother Uncut" and franchised coffee shops - seem tolerable because they can be ignored. Other days, however...
(Posted by Luke)