HyperCard is difficult to describe because it has two very different faces. From one point of view; HyperCard is a system that lets you build Macintosh applications with the same point-and-ciick interface that you’ve come to expect from most...

We believe Metrowerks when it claims that 90 percent of commercial Mac developers use CodeWarrior. Prior to the release of Mac OS X with its included Developer Tools, choices for casual Mac OS developers were limited. CodeWarrior’s target...

Codewarrior is a C and C++ and Java development tool. In MacOS 8.6 to 9.x it would install and set up the IDE and programming languages. A lot of Classic Mac apps were written with Codewarrior as well as device drivers and other...

Visual MacStandardBasic is a visual BASIC programming environment that lets you quickly build 68K, PPC, or FAT applications thanks to its visual approach, which means you can create a window in a click and then drag and drop controls like buttons...

Despite CodeWarrior's position as the premier programming tool for the Macintosh, this is the first time Macworld has reviewed it; Metrowerks produces new compiler versions faster than we can print the magazine. In keeping with this trend,...

Macromedia Flash is an animation/development suite where the end user can create animations or simple games.

HyperStudio is HyperCard on steroids.  HyperStudio is an authoring application programmed by Roger Wagner that lets you create colorful stacks with movie embedding, sounds, animations, customized functions/actions when you click on objects or...

Serial Numbers (for Macromedia Studio MX 2002 only): Flash MX: FLM600-05135-32303-98960 Fireworks MX: FWM600-00850-87207-84582 Freehand 10: FHM100-00658-45126-82914 Dreamweaver MX: DWM600-45589-53101-19239

Macromedia ups the ante in high-end multimedia authoring with version 6 of its flagship product, Director. It has been barely a year since the release of Director 5, so you might wonder what Macromedia could have packed into this latest rev. The...

PageSpinner is an easy-to-use web authoring package for Mac OS. The HTML Editor supports HTML 3.2, HTML 4 and XHTML plus additional Netscape and Explorer extensions. Beginners will appreciate the application's extensive help while more...

HotSauce, initially named Project X, was a short lived experiment at Apple that totally failed.  The goal of HotSauce was to deploy a new kind of 3D visualization plugin to browse the internet and files on your hard drives. Apple released a...

Macromedia Director has always been the Orson Welles of multimedia authoring: hard to work with, but the best in the business. It goes beyond simply letting you combine text, graphics, video, audio, and animation into interactive productions; its...

What You Get and What’s New This release continues the tradition of promises fulfilled and surprise bonuses to the extent that not everything could fit on one CD - so they shipped two. On the main CD we find the expected items: new...

Compared with old-fashioned command-line computing, creating a program in today's graphics-intensive, menu-driven environment means writing prodigious amounts of code. Mainstay's VIP C reduces this organizational anti typing loud by allowing...

Turbo Turtle is an implementation of the Logo programming language, which serves as an introduction to basic programming concepts such as recursion. Turbo Turtle is a turtle graphics program primarily designed as a learning tool for...