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Subject: RE: FLASH: Porting Flash to DOS environment???
From: Curtis Bay
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:23:52 +0100

I can always count on you to tackle the tough questions, John!

My own research today says it's pretty grim. These are stupid kiosks running
OS/2 (which runs on DOS) but even IBMs interactive media tool "HotMedia"
which looks pretty klunky doesn't run on OS/2. There is a version of
Netscape 4.6 for OS/2 and it has a plug-in SDK, but that's not the type of
development we're dying to do. I know you can run Windows on top of OS/2,
but I can't think of much else...

Any OS/2 hobbyists out there who can enlighten me OT re: interactive
development tools that actually run on OS/2?

Curtis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com [jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com (mailto:jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com)]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:20 PM
> To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
> Subject: Re: FLASH: Porting Flash to DOS environment???
>
>
> At 11:48 AM 6/22/0, Curtis Bay wrote:
> > Anyone have some experience or ideas converting Flash to DOS
> > or OS/2 environment?
>
> I hesitate to say anything is impossible, but....
>
> (One of the things everyone loved about Windows 3.1 is that
> you no longer
> had to handle each of the various video cards and sound cards
> out there...
> just write to the Windows API and each driver connects to it.
> I'd have to
> suspect that any remaining DOS-based machines have
> contemporary amounts of
> memory and processing power too, and this alone might kill
> realtime vector
> rendering, or MP3 decompression, or streaming.)
>
> The Flash Player source code can be licensed at zero cost by
> those wishing
> to port it, and I think everyone would cheer someone attempting a DOS
> player, but I think the major portion of the world would be
> shocked and
> amazed if anyone could actually pull such a project off.... ;-)
>
> jd
>
>
>
>
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