MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh software company founded in Chicago in 1984 by Marc Canter, Jay Fenton and Mark Stephen Pierce. The company's first product was SoundVision, a combined music and graphics editor. Before the release, the graphics editor was removed, and SoundVision became MusicWorks.^[1]

In 1988 the company moved to San Francisco, and in 1991 MacroMind merged with Paracomp to become MacroMind-Paracomp, then in 1992 with Authorware, Inc forming Macromedia.

Products

• MusicWorks (1984) - music composer
• VideoWorks (1985)^[2], VideoWorks II (1987) and VideoWorks Interactive - multimedia animation software
• Art Grabber/Body Shop (1985) - clip art software
• Comic Works/Graphic Works - object based paint program
• VideoWorks accelerator - animation compiler for VideoWorks files
• MazeWars+^[3] (1987) - multiplayer network game based on the classic Maze War
• Director (1987) - new name for VideoWorks II
• Director 2 (1988) - VideoWorks Interactive when released as a commercial product
• Director 3 (1989)^[4]
• Three-D (1990)^[5][6] - 3D modeling and animation software

References

1. ↑ MacroMind history on Chris Jacques's introduction to multimedia
2. ↑ Jay's (now Jamie's) resume with screenshot of VideoWorks
3. ↑
4. ↑ DIRECT-L archives -- July 1999, week 3 (#73)
5. ↑ Julian E. Gómez' resume
6. ↑

See also

• John H. Thompson - former MacroMind employee and creator of the Lingo programming language

External links

• Mark Stephen Pierce's resume
• Download MazeWars+
• Computer chronicles: Desktop Publishing #1 (11/2/1986) - demo of desktop publishing software including MacroMind Comic Works