[-empyre-] Games, histories and preservation

[Jim Andrews]

> some browsers on some machines. i prefer to use Linux as a development
> environment and so cannot few shockwave content or use Director. flash
> content however is fine.

shockwave runs ok on linux. i've heard of various approaches. wine.
crossover. see http://www.ubuntux.org/shockwave-player-ubuntu-linux , for
example.

i mainly deliver my work via the browser. though currently i'm working on
something that can't be delivered through the browser (a graphic synthesizer
that needs more access to the file system than browsers permit).

so director is the right choice for me, currently. there's shockwave. also,
director is more granular than flash, the audio api is richer, it's faster
than flash, more extensible via xtras (of which there are many), there's 3d
capability, and i've developed a tool for windowing in shockwave (
http://vispo.com/wfs4 ) that's important to my approach, which is less
time-line driven and more flowchart and windowed-oriented.

director is a relatively high-end tool. it isn't 'positioned' in the middle
of the road. high-end tools are always going to suffer from all sorts of
problems such as a relatively small customer base. but it does permit the
development of strong multimedia/intermedia art, and that's my focus and
interest.

ja
http://vispo.com