J. Landman Gay wrote: "You want RR to write an independent, cross-platform, full-featured video and audio player? You'd be happy to pay for one, right?"
Gosh, must have touched a nerve there. Sorry! Adobe Director costs $999 (whether that is only single platform or for both Mac and Win is not clear) Runtime Revolution costs $499 about half the 'hit'. No, I don't; but some people on this use-list seem unaware of what it takes both in terms of money and work to build in all the additional stuff. However, I didn't point out that Director could do this because I wanted RR to do this: I pointed it out so you could see what 'truly cross-platform' meant :) ------------------------------------------------------------- I am also well aware that RR can do quite a few, arguably more practical, things than Director. If I wanted to build richly immersive environments where teenage geeks could lose themselves and fail their exams I might well work with Director (having done something tending in that direction when I was working in the UAE ten years ago). But, my bread and cheese comes from producing considerably less media-intensive stuff for which Runtime Revolution has served me very well indeed for some considerable time. Or, put it another way: I paid about 3 months of my income to attend the RunRev conference in Edinburgh rather than to attend some Adobe function somewhere else! [That reminds me, I have to darn my kilt as I cannot afford a new one.] sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution