Comments on: iShell Targets Director Users

By: mtpb

mtpb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:01:59 +0000

This can be used to download things at the library!

Once upon a time, in a world where I used to have to send and receive BIG files via dial up, I used to dream of how I could utilize my public library’s T1 connection. The computers there had no floppy, no CD, no nothing… I mostly had to receive big files, turn into Director movies, and then mail overnight. The receive part was so painful. The dream was…. could I attach suction cups outfitted with photocells to a CRT in strategic places and have the content I needed to download become rasterized into blinking boxes? Think about that!

-MTPB

By: David tournier

David tournier — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:26:14 +0000

I just try , and i think that it is a very powerfull tool. But it is really much powerfull than director?… I foud some great plugins for iShell, specially on . But the 3D plugin seems not available… it could be nice to compare it to shockwave3d. Does this plugin run fast on iShell?

By: Malcolm Vincent

Malcolm Vincent — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:13:19 +0000

Amen to that - come on Adobe … get that shockwave player out there now! … and hopefully as a by-product it will work on any linux box too

By: Josh Chunick

Josh Chunick — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:31:21 +0000

I actually downloaded and tried iShell, but didn’t put much effort into it since the layout and metaphor were quite alien to me…. but downloading it also tipped off a marketing/sales guy for the company who probably found out I was a Director user and he ended up calling me at home. Persistent… Adobe should really look at it as a wakeup call. Competition is always a good thing.

By: CC

CC — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:02:16 +0000

You might be able to get even better compression. Typically, you’ll only be using ASCII characters 32-128, which means that you could store each character in 7 bits, leaving an extra bit for each color value. You could then recover an extra three characters for every seven pixels.

If you only needed to store upper case letters (or only lower case letters), you could reduce this even further to characters 32-95, using 6 bits per character, which would leave you with 4 characters for every pixel. (You could still use this technique if you have infrequent case changes by prefixing them with an unused character like a carat. As long as they occur less than once every three characters, you’d still see a size savings.)

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:59:44 +0000

Simple, yet effective, I’m gonna have fun with this one!!

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:28:45 +0000

Cool!