Indeed, there was a scripting language in World Builder. Bill
Appleton (a native Knoxvillean) went on to turn that into Course
Builder, which was a delightful visually-oriented way to create
software. He went on to develop SuperCard after that.
Eventually, Discovery Systems of Knoxville (comprised of 2 or 3 of
the folks involved in the inception of Course Builder) acquired the
rights to Course Builder and marketed it for about 10 years. Alas,
all good things must come to and end and it finally became
financially infeasible for them to continue marketing Course
Builder. They had wonderful, free tech support (you often got one of
the authors if you called for help). I was very sad when they
finally folded shop. :-(
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Marian
On Mar 4, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
I think you're right, Robert. I seem to recall writing a piece on
interactive fiction in that time frame and interviewing Appleton
for it. My
memory is a bit fuzzy but I think he did have a scripting language
of sorts
in that quit-delightful tool.
On 3/4/06, Robert Brenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andre Garzia wrote:
On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and
premiered
at the Boston expo the year before HC was released?
Was it Director known as VideoWorks first??? did I won? Gee, I was
only seven years old! :-D
Good guess, but Director/Videoworks didn't add a scripting language
until after HC was released.
Hint: the developer's first name was Bill, and his last name started
with an "A", but it wasn't "Atkinson".
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Managing Editor, revJournal
Would you mean World Builder by Bill Appleton (Silicon Beach
Software)?
Robert
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