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(Macromedia, Inc., San Francisco, CA, www.adobe.com) A software company that specialized in multimedia authoring tools and was acquired by Adobe in 2005. It was created in 1992 by the merger of Authorware, Inc. and MacroMind-Paracomp. Both Authorware and MacroMind were founded in 1984, and MacroMind merged with Paracomp in 1991.

Carried forth under the Adobe banner, Macromedia's primary products were Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flex, Macromedia Director (Shockwave) and Flash. Flash Lite for mobile phones was introduced in 2003 and first used by Japan's NTT DoCoMo. See Adobe, Flash, Director and ColdFusion.

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MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh software company founded in Chicago in 1984 by Marc Canter, Jay Fenton and Mark Stephen Pierce. The company's first product was SoundVision, a combined music and graphics editor. Before the release, the graphics editor was removed, and SoundVision became MusicWorks.[1] Along with other early programs, MusicWorks was originally distributed by Hayden Software.[2]

In 1988 the company moved to San Francisco, and in 1991 MacroMind merged with Paracomp to become MacroMind-Paracomp, then in 1992 with Authorware, Inc forming Macromedia.

Products

  • MusicWorks (1984) - music composer
  • VideoWorks (1985)[3], VideoWorks II (1987) and VideoWorks Interactive - multimedia animation software
  • Art Grabber/Body Shop (1985) - clip art software
  • Comic Works/Graphic Works - object based paint program
  • VideoWorks accelerator - animation compiler for VideoWorks files
  • MazeWars+[4] (1987) - multiplayer network game based on the classic Maze War
  • Director (1987) - new name for VideoWorks II
  • Director 2 (1988) - VideoWorks Interactive when released as a commercial product
  • Director 3 (1989)[5]
  • Three-D (1990)[6][7] - 3D modeling and animation software

See also

References

  1. ^ MacroMind history on Chris Jacques's introduction to multimedia
  2. ^ The New York Times, "PERIPHERALS; PORTABLE SCREEN FOR APPLE", By PETER H. LEWIS, Published: February 19, 1985
  3. ^ Jay's (now Jamie's) resume with screenshot of VideoWorks
  4. ^ Advertisement for MazeWars
  5. ^ DIRECT-L archives -- July 1999, week 3 (#73)
  6. ^ Julian E. Gómez' resume
  7. ^ Screenshot of MacroMind 3D

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