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This is the first Ruffle release, yay!
vga256it's hard to imagine that back in the mid-90s, the stiff and strait-laced MS had an entire department for making kids multimedia
their edutainment department was mostly independent of the rest of the monster, and produced some really unique educational software. Dinosaurs is one of their best - the combination of high production value, solid paleontological detail, and skeumorphic interfaces makes for a totally memorable experience.
i found this non-interactive demo buried in the program. i heard one of the former MS developers mention recently that scenes like these were built in Macromedia Director, and then nested within the program (built in C/C++) using a Director runtime.
you might notice the weird random b+w noise around the window, and in some of the background. that's a byproduct of the team using indexed palettes to handle the hundreds of compressed images. every single image was run through DeBabelizer to extract its index, and then averaged with other images to find shared colour palettes from 256 colours. the team had to make sure that the colour palette chosen never intruded into the "safe palette" used by the window frame, titlebar, and background. obviously, this one paletting error snuck past QA.
happy to discover this short talk by John Henry Thompson - the creator of the Lingo scripting language for Macromedia Director. JHT talks about the history of the language, from its inception through its various versions.
it was one of my first OOP experiences as a kid, and left a huge impression in how i understood user-centred programming. love learning that it was deeply influenced by Smalltalk
Guest: John Henry Thompson
▲MANGOR▲... peep ...
Animated with Flash in 2003, remastered in 2026. Challenged myself to painting a background in Photoshop which took forever.
#peeps #marshmallowpeeps #noai #flash #kranioclast #drmangor #mangor #photoshoppainting #handdrawn #macromedia #hadit #traditionalanimation #animate #darkhumor
Getzler Lab at KenyonCollegeI have a bunch of really pedagogically useful animation on a CD but they are... trapped in Macromedia Flash. They are (kinda) still available via a new publisher, but only if you buy their textbook and then it is an annual subscription. I purchased this CD years ago, loved the animations, and miss being able to show them in class. This seems like a place where I might be able to hire someone to port it? I'm quite unskilled with coding. #plannedobsolescence #software #macromedia #flash #help
Michael 🏳️🌈#HyperCard and its programming language #HyperTalk (inspired by #Smalltalk) spread widely into several authoring tools of the early web, like #Macromedia #Director and later #Flash.
There was also a Windows clone #MetaCard that lives on till today under the name #LiveCode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode). Sadly it didn’t stick to it’s simplicity. It’s now bloatware, not usable for me.
Some people name the language #Delphi as a successor, but I’ve never tried it.
the overwhelming amount of powerless, dispirited and pessimistic grumbling on masto about today's technology is a daily reminder that people are equally capable of creating very beautiful, aspirational things using creative tools.
this is a 5 minute recording of Ceremony of Innocence, by peter gabriel's Real World Multimedia. you may recognize the style, because it's a playful re-imagining of Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine epistolary novel.
if you recognize the voiceovers, it's because they're by Isabella Rossellini, Ben Kingsley and Paul McGann.
it was built with macromedia director 30 years ago. this recording was done on a 2004 iMac G5.
we're equally capable of building beautiful things like this now.
where the danger lies, also the saving power grows
#multimedia #macromedia #retrogaming #hopepunk #macintosh #vintageApple
Last of the Frogmen- made with Flash in 2008, 4k remastered in 2026. #lastofthefrogmen #adobeanimate #flash #kranioclast #drmangor #mangor #redneck #vector #animation #handdrawn #cryptid #frogman #frogmen #noai #macromedia #traditionalanimation #animate #darkhumor #darkart #motorcycle
tldr: video tour of a multimedia Enhanced CD that no one has seen in 30 years.
anyone under 40 has probably never heard of enhanced cd's. they were a *very* short lived phenomena of the 90s: a Blue Book audio disc that has both redbook audio (music) tracks *and* a data track with multimedia content.
they were expensive to produce. every enhanced CD that i've personally seen was a Macromedia Director projector, usually in both Mac & Windows formats. since the data portion usually took up a significant chunk of space, this also meant sacrificing a music track or two.
but as a teenager, there was nothing cooler to me than being able to stick my cd in a discman to listen to music, and then stick the same cd in my doublespeed CD-ROM drive and goof around with multimedia content.
the best CD I owned was by a canadian band: I Mother Earth. and like almost all great canadian bands, we selfished refused to export them in the 90s and kept them all for ourselves. so no one really knew about their enhanced CD
I Mother Earth had one chart topping album in canada - Scenery and Fish.
a few years ago i ripped the windows and mac versions of the data track from my original teenaged copy of the disc and uploaded them to IA:
https://archive.org/details/ime-scenery-fish-ecd
#canada #music #multimedia #macromedia #macintosh #vintageApple
MacintoshGarden FeedClangers Activity Centre
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/clangers-activity-centre
They're made of wool and they enjoy the simple things of life like eating blue string pudding and watering plants. From the earliest days of their TV appearances, the bright pink, mouse-shaped
