About the service
I breathe life back into multimedia projects created in Adobe (Macromedia) Director and its scripting language Lingo. If you have a classic CD-ROM disc, interactive encyclopedia, museum kiosk, educational disc or Shockwave content that no longer runs on modern hardware, I can help restore it. My services cover the entire lifecycle of a legacy Director project: diagnosing non-working movies, extracting source code from protected DIR and DXR files where possible, repairing damaged casts and restoring lost or broken Lingo scripts. I work confidently with frame-by-frame animation on the score, sprite channels, Xtras extensions, imported graphics and sound, as well as with the handler and message model that underlies all Director logic. Typical tasks: make a project run stably on current operating systems through a wrapper or emulation layer, replace dead QuickTime or video dependencies, fix mouse and keyboard handlers, update the installer. I also move projects forward: extract graphics, audio and text so the interactive logic can be reassembled on a supported stack, or package the original so it lives on kiosks and archive machines. A separate direction is digital preservation. I document the movie structure, catalog casts and Lingo handlers, and prepare a clear technical report so a studio, museum or archive never again depends on undocumented knowledge in someone's head. The result includes a working build, source code commented where possible, and records of all changes. Describe what you have and what platform it should run on, and I'll give you an accurate estimate of the rescue work needed.
