[plug] To emulate or not to emulate...

[Onno Benschop]

(With apologies to William Shakespeare)

Challenge:

    Find a way to build a bootable CD that will run on many (perhaps
    lower-end) PC's that will play an existing educational title that
    was developed in MacroMedia Director 5 in 1997. The title runs on
    Windows 3.1, Win95 or Macintosh OS 7.1 and requires QuickTime 2.1
    and some fonts.


So, with gusto I've been attempting to find a way to achieve the above.

Things I've tried/looked for:

    * There is no MacroMedia Director player for Linux
    * A Knoppix CD will likely be able to be built that would fit the
      content as well as a windows emulator
    * The software does not run under wine
    * To emulate a Macintosh requires an Apple ROM image which is not free
    * It is possible that the software might be able to be imported into
      the current version of Director, exported as a QuickTime movie,
      then imported into Flash, for which there is a Linux player. (This
      would not be trivial and is likely not going to actually work.)


Has anyone got any bright ideas?

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Onno Benschop

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