[musiccog]

I loved MacroMind (later Macromedia) (later Adobe) Director. Delivered dozens of educational CD's, corporate CD's and many of my own 'experiments'.

One of those was a map for EverQuest to help find dead bodies (it was a big thing at the time), and help swimmers who fell off a ship to get back to land alive. Another was a project to scan every user-authored book in Ultima Online (using basic OCR)

Director was extensible in that you could not only import 3rd party libraries, but write your own modules in Pascal. Much more powerful and extensible than Flash IMHO.

Flash won that battle after the buy-out, and Adobe extinguished Director. Still miss it to create proof-of-concept, simple or amazing cross-platform apps.