> [...] I was working on some personal projects where I wanted to have
> interactive control of video disks, but I wanted to control them
> with Director. So I wrote an XObject to do it and made that work and
> Lingo just grew from there.
>
> Most of the interactive programs for the Mac were being done in
> HyperCard, using HyperTalk for scripting. I wanted to bring that
> interactivity to Director. Where the focus of Director had
> originally been visual stuff, in Director 2 we wanted to add the
> capability to do interactive simulations for sales and training. And
> maybe some simple games. Lingo at that time was very simple, like
> integer arithmetic, small stuff.
>
> We were competing with HyperCard and HyperTalk, but Director was
> more free-format than the card-based authoring. A lot of Lingo was
> modeled after HyperTalk... handlers, events targeted to objects, and
> a scripting system geared toward non-programmers. Accessibility is
> very important... being able to let non-programmers get a lot of
> control.
>
> [...]
>
> First they were going to ship a version of Director that was going
> to be called Director Interactive Toolkit, or something wacky, which
> was going to include [Lingo] and the XObject stuff but about a month
> before it shipped they changed their minds and decided that was a
> bad idea and decided to roll it into one product. That became
> Director 2.0. That really didn?t get any planning until the very end
> when the manuals needed to get put together. It was just me, Dan
> [Sadowski] and Al [McNeil.] At that point the company was so small
> it could only focus on one product at a time.
>
> \- excerpt adapted from interviews of John Henry Thompson, as
> transcribed from [his personal site][1].

See also: [VideoWorks][2], [VideoWorks II][3], [MacroMind Director
1.0.1][4], [MacroMind Director 3.0][5], [Macromedia Director
3.1.x][6], [Macromedia Director 4.0][7], [Macromedia Director 5.0][8],
[Macromedia Director 6.0][9], [Macromedia Director 6.5 Multimedia
Studio][10], [Macromedia Director 8 Shockwave Studio][11], [Macromedia
Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio][12], [Macromedia Director MX
(9.0)][13], [Macromedia Director MX 2004 (10.x)][14], [Adobe Director
11.5][15]

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  [1]: http://www.johnhenrythompson.com/home/interviews
  [2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/videoworks
  [3]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/videoworks-ii
  [4]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromind-director-1
  [5]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromind-director-30
  [6]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-31313
  [7]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-40
  [8]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-5
  [9]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-60
  [10]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-65-multimedia-studio
  [11]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-8-shockwave-studio
  [12]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-85-shockwave-studio
  [13]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/director-mx
  [14]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macromedia-director-mx-2004
  [15]: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/adobe-director-115

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