> 5. What we all gonna do and say when maybe just maybe Director appears 
> for
> Linux? Will there be a joining of the Mac and Win clans to defeat the
> penguin? Lol

> I'd love it, personally, but that's because I'm a 'nix fan at heart and 
> have been since I first installed Slackware on an ancient 486/33 with 8 
> MB back in the mid 90s. (That was a fun system -- it triple booted: 
> Win3.11/DOS6, OS/2 Warp, Slackware. And the installation took *forever* 
> since everything came in from hand-fed floppies... I had to upgrade it 
> to 16 MB to get OS/2 to work reasonably well on it, though.)

  I'd think personally that it would be a real good move for Macromedia to
get a foot in the 'nix door before Adobe :) And given that the OS X is as
based around a 'nix core, I would imagine that it would now be easier than
before to start looking at that avenue of porting the applications? I'm not
that up on the inner workings of OS X to know for sure, just based on what
I've read.

> DirMX was necessary from the Mac perspective to provide an OSX version;
> 8.5 included the 3D engine that got a *lot* of people very excited.

  That is a very good point that I forgot about due to only using Windows
version, apologies to OS X users out there for ignoring that fact!

Regards to all,
Peter Witham


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