Flash roots

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Sun Aug 8 11:43:09 EDT 2004


Hi Andrew,

>
> In a message dated 8/8/04 2:22:57 AM, 
> use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com
> writes:
>
>
>> Flash is a plug-in turned authoring environment.
>> -- Nope, I was one of the testers for Pre-flash and flash. Flash 
>> actually has 
> its roots in SmartDraw

It was "Future Wave SmartSketch" actually, and i may still have a 
version somewhere
here in my "archives"... :-)

I think it was in one of these Supercard 2.0 SUPER-upgrade-bundles 
looooooog time ago...
Along with "Elastic Reality" (sic!) and "Specular Logomotion 2.0", an 
EXTREMEMLY
good bargain, BTW ;-)

> and Freehand. But then thats some messy politics
> between Aldus/Altsys some 15yrs ago. Actionscript was response to 
> Hypertalk which
> Altsys hated. I tried very hard to get Hypertalk (via superacard) into 
> Altsys
> products but failed, sorry. Sadly, Actionscript has more books written 
> about it
> than Hypertalk ever will have.
>
> Andrew

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de



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