MacroMind Director 1

MacroMind Director 1.0 is the first version of the Director multimedia authoring environment, which was released in 1989 by MacroMind, predecessor of Macromedia.

Product history
MacroMind president Marc Canter had originally announced the project in 1988 as VideoWorks Professional, a successor to its VideoWorks II animation package with added paint capabilities. Tiny BASIC was implemented as a scripting language in beta versions that were delivered to Apple Computer for use in "Guided Tours" tutorial files.

The finished project was renamed MacroMind Director and was released solely for Macintosh System 6.0.2 or later at a list price of US$695. Tiny BASIC would be replaced by Lingo in version 2.

Articles

 * Macromedia Director: A Timeline-based Authoring Tool by Brian P. Bailey and Joseph A. Konstan, Authoring Interactive Media. 2000.
 * Let us now praise MacroMind Director by Harry McCracken at Fast Company (2017-01-28)