That's really cool, there were a lot of titles made in director. I remember that whole CD-ROM era in the 90s. I just forwarded your email to a friend of mine who had a company that used to write CD-ROM titles in Macromedia Director. He should still have a number of CDs to test on On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 4:55 PM Dylan Servilla via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hi, I'm Dylan. I've been a docent at the VCF museum since last May, and I'm there most weekends. I'm also a computer science student at Rutgers New Brunswick and a developer for ScummVM, the game engine reimplementation project.
I've been working on ScummVM's Macromedia Director engine for the past two years. It was just officially announced, and I thought the list might be interested: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20210817/
Macromedia Director was originally released in 1985 as MacroMind VideoWorks, an animation program for the Macintosh. Soon after, a scripting language was introduced, the program was renamed Director, and it became heavily used in CD-ROM games in the 1990s. ScummVM now supports early Director titles, allowing them to be played natively on modern computers. Eventually this will be able to play a huge number of old CD-ROM games.
The engine has gotten some media coverage, including in Ars Technica, but be aware that it isn't entirely accurate. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/scummvm-now-supports-macromedia-direc...
The engine is currently in the testing stage, and it will be included in the ScummVM 2.5.0 release next month.
Dylan Servilla