Macromedia+Flash

=History=
 * Flash**, a platform provided by Macromedia Corporation, utilizes vector based graphics for faster downloading time and high quality of animations. Because Flash is browser independent, Flash graphics look the same on all browsers.

toc As a high school student and an Apple II Basic Computer by his side, Jonathan Gay wrote his first graphics editor. Immediately after the release of Macintosh, Gay’s father took him to a Macintosh users group meeting. At the meeting, his father raved to Charlie Jackson about his amazing computer skills. Jackson wanted to start a Macintosh software company but did not have the funds to spend on professional programmers. He asked Gay to write the software for him.

Using the Lisa Computer worth $10,000, Gay created games such as Airborne, Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle where he developed ideas about the basics of Flash utilizations such as animation and digital sound. Gay also added PostScript Style to Super Paint II. After the success of his design of Intellidraw, Gay and Charlie started a company called FutureWave Software.

During that time, the pen computing phase was a new concept with enormous potential. They developed a software called SmartSketch to run on Go operating platforms. However, in 1994, At&T bought Go and SmartSketch could no longer work. They revamped the software to work on Macintosh and Windows.

In 1995, SmartSketch received reactions from consumers to turn it into an animation software using Java. They changed their company name to FutureSplash.

In August of 1996 they received their big break with Microsoft wanting their MSN websites to appear TV like and Disney using it for their Disney Daily Blast.

In December 1996, Macromedia bought FutureSplash and changed the name to Flash 1.0.

=Related Graphics & Screenshots=

Interface Screenshot


=Works Cited=

Keating, Jody (October 2001). __Flash__. Fig Leaf Software: Indiana. http://www.flashmagazine.com/413.htm http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/events/john_gay/index.html