[OT] Is there a relationship between Xtalk languages andsmalltalk?

[Chipp Walters]

Richard Gaskin wrote:


> One last bit of trivia:
> 
> Today the world's most popular multimedia authoring system is Flash, and 
> while we know it as a Macromedia product it was actually an acquisition.
> 
> Who originally produced it?
> 
> FutureSplash, a company owned by Charlie Jackson.

And in fact, FutureSplash was called 'SmartSketch' even earlier. The 
same programmers who wrote SuperPaint, which was sold to Aldus along 
with SuperCard, Super3D and Digital Darkroom, (and the rest of Charlie's 
Silicon Beach companies products) also wrote FutureSplash.


> PS: in the early '90s a magazine premiered called "New Media" -- anyone 
> here have the first two issues?

Perhpas. We were awarded the New Media Award of Excellence that very 
first year for our SuperCard project "MarsBook", a 3d walkthrough of a 
Mars Habitat we designed for NASA and Johnson Space Center.

Interesting story, I was asked to come to San Jose to pick-up the award 
and told to wear a tuxedo. Of course, no self-respecting Apple type 
would be caught dead in a tux, but I did go there. It was amazing, like 
the Oscars for Multimedia. They had TV cameras, red carpet, 
teleprompters, and around 4000 people -- and me the only one in jeans;-).

Someone was going to a lot of trouble to make sure 'multimedia' was the 
next big thing. I think there were only 8 Awards of Excellence given, 
and we were proud to have gotten one of the first. My good friend Dan 
Backus, wrote 'ADAM' a medical dissection multimedia project in 
SuperCard, and he won the covetted 'Best of Show.' For a number of years 
after, the Invision Awards were among the most elite awards in 
Multimedia-- though it never exceeded the hype and production of that 
first year.

-Chipp