Platform Specific Issues
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  1. Pre-built cross-platform installer for Director 7 projects
  2. Determining the proper platform-specific line end character
  3. Simple lingo for determining the platform (Mac or Win)
  4. Cross Platform authoring with DXRs
  5. Cross Platform Checklist
  6. Director 7 Workshop shows how turning off script coloring in D7 for movies transferred across platforms can cause destruction of high ASCII characters, including Lingo line continuation (¬)
  7. Macintosh & Windows Text Rendering Comparison or "why are fonts so darn big on PC's?"

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  8. A story of troubles dealing with Windows and Mac palettes.
  9. Managing Sound in cross-platform Director, from the DreamLight Insight series.
  10. The ins and outs of picking an optimum 8-bit palette for use on Mac and Windows
  11. David Cain documents how PC Exchange 2.2 mangles long filenames on locked volumes
  12. Hybrid CD-ROMs
  13. Platform independent file path specifier (using "@")
  14. VGA vs Mac palletes
  15. Optimum palette for Mac to Windows
  16. Tips for Mac to Windows conversion
  17. Greg Yachuk outlines some of the common problems with linked cast files including the Director 4+5 bug with linked file paths not resolving

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  18. Tips for Windows to mac conversion.
  19. Warren Ockrassa's tips for moving a Director project from Windows 95 to Mac
  20. Loren Mork describes how to convert PC Notepad files to Mac Simpletext

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  21. Macintosh System Error Codes
  22. Machine-type codes for Macs as of 7/95
  23. The right way to set Mac application icons
  24. Macintosh installer programs
  25. Joseph Fish outlines the 72 steps for installing Windows 95 on a Mac 6100/DOS compatible

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  26. Director-Workshop shows how to make property lists from Window's INI files
  27. Use the fullColorPermit for 16-bit projectors
  28. Aniware AniRex is a utility for switching a PC's color and moinotr resolution before launching your projector.
  29. ActiveX Stuff for Director
  30. Files on the root level of a PC drive
  31. Backdrop for Windows
  32. Executing DOS commands
  33. Lingo User's guide to the Windows Media Control Interface (MCI)
  34. Getting the drive letter for multi-volume CD-ROMs
  35. Using the fullColorPermit property for Win95 Projectors (for faster performance in 16 and 32 bit color depth environments)
  36. Hardware for authoring on Windows
  37. Summary of Installer programs for Windows
  38. The Soloist is an approach to prevent multiple instances of a Windows projector
  39. Top Ten Windows Issues (Macromedia TechNote 3504)
  40. Troubleshooting for Windows
  41. Troubleshooting Display Drivers in Director for Windows (Macromedia TechNote 3121)
  42. Tips to Troubleshooting GPFs with Director for Windows (Macromedia TechNote 3130)
  43. Macromedia Tech Note 3191 on Windows and Multichannel Sound
  44. When EMPTY does not equal 0
  45. Using the "open" command in DFW Projectors
  46. Why do I need Director for Windows? (Macromedia TechNote 3156)