The links for Shockwave download are now live to Shockwave 11.0.0.0.
Is that enough zeros?
Note: If you are on MacIntel you may have to go to the alternates page due to the redirect issues that MacIntels have had to deal with for the past 2 years.
8 comments March 25th, 2008
Is now available for download. Let the fun begin.
Screenshot of my email message from Adobe talking about my trial download.
11 comments March 24th, 2008
As a reader pointed out, the Shockwave 11 links are now up. Currently they don’t lead to anything though. Looks like something will be out in the wild later tonight. Guess I’ll be doing a lot of testing of online content in the next week.
Currently the link just leads you to a lovely 404 page, “The requested URL /pub/shockwave/default/english/macosx/latest/Shockwave_Installer_Full.dmg was not found on this server.”
Click on image to see Shockwave 11 links
2 comments March 24th, 2008
So Director is supposed to be available for download tomorrow (or in the next few days). If Adobe is like Apple, they’ll release it on Tuesday. [Don’t get me started on the Adobe/Apple cage match that has been going on for a few years…ugh].
Guess we’ll have to wait and see. Will tomorrow be like Christmas in March?
As soon as I get it I’ll let you know. If anyone gets the “download now” message from Adobe let me know 🙂
5 comments March 23rd, 2008
I had a few problems with the server this sits on during the past few days, so I’ve got to make a few changes to things. Unfortunately, I’m off in DC for a good chunk of this coming week.
This site should “mostly” function during the week, but a few things may be askew.
Since Director 11 is still rumored to be out around March 24th I’ll be sure things are nailed back in place by then 🙂
Add comment March 15th, 2008
One thing about Director is that the help files are often missing things. One key thing is time (I heard it keeps on ticking). Think about all these different things (roughly grouped) – feel free to start typing in the message window.
the ticks
_movie.ticks()
the milliseconds
_system.milliseconds
the date
the long date
_movie.date()
_system.date()
the time
the long time
_movie.time()
_system.time()
the systemDate
_movie.systemDate()
_movie.systemDate().year
_movie.systemDate().month
_movie.systemDate().day
_movie.systemDate().seconds
What are all these things? Well…some are old, some are new, some are undocumented, and some are blue (ok…maybe not). Running a little script to show each of those items you get the following:
— “2861209 = the ticks”
— “2861210 = _movie.ticks()”
— “47686843 = the milliseconds”
— “47686848 = _system.milliseconds”
— “3/2/08 = the date”
— “Sunday, March 2, 2008 = the long date”
— “3/2/08 = _movie.date()”
— “3/2/08 = _system.date()”
— “8:14 PM = the time”
— “8:14:21 PM = the long time”
— “8:14 PM = _movie.time()”
— “8:14 PM = _system.time()”
— “date( 2008, 3, 2 ) = the systemDate”
— “date( 2008, 3, 2 ) = _movie.systemDate()”
— “2008 = _movie.systemDate().year”
— “3 = _movie.systemDate().month”
— “2 = _movie.systemDate().day”
— “72861 = _movie.systemDate().seconds”
Here is the really quick explanation (as far as I know).
the ticks (or _movie.ticks) are divisions of time that are equal to approximately 1/60 of a second (slight variance on different platforms/computers). I’m not sure when they start counting (i.e. when would it show 0 ticks). the milliseconds (or _system.milliseconds) are the number of milliseconds (1/1000 of a second) that have passed since it started counting – and once again, I’m not sure when it starts counting. the date, _movie.date() and _system.date() all return the same value (at least in my case). I believe that the format of these will vary based on your international settings on your computer.
the long date provides the name of the day and the month. This is older Lingo. I’m not aware of a modern way to get this value. Does anyone know of anything such as _system.date.long() that might give the same information? The long date is rather unique (or should I say old?).
the time, _movie.time, and _system.time all provide the same value, but once again, there is the long time which includes the seconds and is unique and old. Does anyone know if there is a modern (dot syntax) version of that?
the systemDate (modern version is _system.date()) provides the date in the format of (year, month, day). This is supposed to be uniform across international systems. From this date you can easily get the year, month or day as was shown above. The most interesting part is that you can also get the seconds past midnight with the _movie.systemDate().seconds.
Between all those things you can usually come up with at least one time or date that seems interesting. Of course, if you want a bit more you could also use javascript or an actionscript object via lingo to get even more times and dates.
Some interesting resources related to this:
Director Online article
Mediamacros script
Using actionscript objects with date/time:
Director Dev Center Article
ActionScript dictionary for date objects
8 comments March 2nd, 2008
The official press release is out.
For immediate release
Major Product Upgrade Advances Multimedia Authoring Environment
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 19, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Director® 11 software, a major upgrade to the company’s powerful multimedia authoring tool for building interactive applications and rich content. The latest release contains a flexible and easy-to-use authoring environment enabling multimedia authors, animators and developers to create powerful interactive applications, games, e-learning and simulation products…
The Director product page has also been updated. I like the new box 🙂
18 comments February 19th, 2008
From the wealth of online posts, looks as if Director 11 will be here tomorrow…and it might look like this (thanks Wolfgang).
Image links to CDW product page.
Adobe next month will release Director 11, an update to its graphics assembly, that it hopes will lure game developers with its better 3D imaging.
Adobe is expected to detail the latest features of Director at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Director 11 is used to build games, as well as graphics-rich presentations, and learning applications. It uses the Shockwave plug-in to render 3D graphics.
The latest version includes physics, or movement between images, using the Ageia PhysX engine and support for DirectX 9, which can take advantage of recent graphics cards.
It will make it easier for designers to create more realistic 3D images, such as colliding cars on a racing game, said Rick Jones, senior product marketing manager at Adobe. The inclusion of Flash Player 9 enables the inclusion of animations and slick graphics for things like game menus.
When Adobe releases Director 11 next month, the price will be $999, rather than $1,199, which is the cost of the current version. Upgrades are $299 and a new student edition is available for $99.
And from the Adobe Director support forums, skiplondon has posted the following, so be sure to get your questions to him:
We are out in San Francisco for the announcement of new version of Director which will be coming from Adobe tomorrow. We will be reporting on this and sitting down with all the people on the Adobe Director team.
If you would like to have me ask them any questions for you, please email me at director @ magicgate . com . You only have about 24 hours left to submit your questions. These will be aired on our next episode of the Director Podcast hopefully on Wednesday morning.
If you wish to hear older episodes of our show, you can go to http://director.magicgate.com
SKIP
Thanks for that Skip, I’ll be looking forward to the next Podcast!
5 comments February 18th, 2008
Way back at Adobe Max 2007 in Chicago (I can’t wait for 2008 in SanFran!) I went to the Director sessions. They were giving out pens to promote the next version of Director (which will officially be announced at the GDC this week according to online sources). I’d promised to put pictures of the pen online.
I finally got around to it 🙂
The pen has the new Director logo on one side, and the slogan “Make Better Games” on the others. Inside the pen are two metallic balls that you try to get through the red plastic maze. Very cool 3D game for the real world. I wonder if Adobe will have a 3D version of this shipping as a sample with the new Director. That would be cool.
8 comments February 17th, 2008
According to the most recent Director Podcast Adobe will be announcing the new Director at the Games Developer Conference next week.
Another user on the Adobe Director forums pointed to an image from the Adobe server (how on Earth do people find such things?).
<--- It is so cute!
Image is here on Adobe site
3 comments February 13th, 2008
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