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Here's a list of other good Director-related sites. If you have a site and I didn't list you here, then contact me and I'll add you to the list. I have split the links into categories and given a brief overview of each site.
General Sites
These sites have source code, information, etc., that are of general use to Director developers.
Dean's Director Turorials
Dean Utian's newly updated Director site, with lots of varied tutorials and other resources. Dave Mennenoh's Director Page
Free code, Tips and updated information about his books. Director Web
One of the ugliest sites on the Internet, but also one of the biggest and oldest Director resources. Enedahl.com
Christoffer Enedahl's site. One of the main contributors to openLingo, his site has some additional code and tutorials. Director Online
The Director Online User Group or DOUG contains a huge database of articles by various authors on all aspects of Director. Lingo Programmer
A pretty big site with some very good graphics tutorials and demos, among other things. MediaMacros
A huge site with Xtras, free code, tips and links to other resources. Nightwares [ freebies | book ]
Warren Ockrassa's site. Some examples released under the GPL, and some information about his book, "Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide". openLingo [ yahoo group ]
A community set up by myself and a few others to create a standardised resusable library of Lingo tools. Note: The site is still under development. ShockSites
Open source code, forums, plus a large database of links and articles. UpdateStage [ quirks | products ]
Many useful Xtras, as well as two important Director resources: the Quirk (and bug) List and the Mile High Table O'Products.
Games Related
These sites either have game-specific development information or are simply a good source of inspiration for game developers.
CanDo Multimedia
Some great examples of what you can do with Shockwave 3D. GetPixel.co.uk
Not to be confused with Charles Forman's SetPixel.com! This is a fairly new site, featuring a few small games and simple source code that may be useful to beginners. Mach8
Lucas Meijer's site. No tutorials, but lots of examples of Shockwave games, including some excellent work for Lego. Noisecrime
What can I say? Some of the best Director work you're going to find anywhere. RobotDuck [ tutorials ]
One of the biggest Shockwave games sites. Some very nice quirky little games with an instantly recognisable style. SetPixel
Charles Forman's site. Lots of games, demos and articles for the advanced Director developer. The Burrow [ inludo ]
Barry Swan's Site - some good tutorials for Shockwave game developers, especially those interested in 3D. Inludo is a commercial site where you can see more examples of Barry's work, including some of the best Shockwave 3D content anywhere. Tildruin Source Code
Has an optimised A* pathfinder and currently nothing else. Toxi
Toxi mainly does demos. I like demos. Highly inspirational site with some Director examples.
Special Interest
Sites that have something you won't find anywhere else.
Animation Math
Excellent resource with maths and physics for the Lingo programmer. Macromedia [ director | technotes | MX ]
The mothership. Include here for completeness. ShockNet
Everything you need to know about communicating between Director and a web-server, as well as server-side tutorials for the Lingo programmer. Undocumented Lingo
Christophe Leske's blog, featuring general randomness interespersed with unique references. Advanced developers should check here every now and then for handy tips & tricks.
Mailinglists
Email based discussion groups for Director developers.
Direct-L
For all topics and users of all levels. Extremely busy list, dozens (sometimes hundreds) of posts per day. DirGames-L
Specifically for game developers. Very good list, primarily for an advanced audience. Lingo-L
Specifically for Lingo programming (not Director in general) but all topics are covered and users are of all level. Very busy, but not as busy as Direct-L.
Newsgroups
These are some of the official Macromedia discussion groups. Macromedia makes these groups accessible via their website, although the reliability of the web interface is sometimes less than perfect. The main links will attempt to open the group in your default Usenet client, if you have one.
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