Return of Screenweaver

Thursday 1 September 2005  –  Filed under: Software  –  No Comments

I know, I’m a bit late to blog this, due to my very relaxing holiday in Crete, Greece, but I’d like to express my excitement about Screenweaver going open source nevertheless.

Screenweaver logo As some of you may know I was, together with Edwin van Rijkom and Thomas Wester, one of the founders of Rubberduck, the company that created Screenweaver 3, the successor of Screenweaver II that originally was created by Grooveware.

SW3 was received very well by Flash developers and was praised for both its innovative ActionScript API (until then, all other SWF2EXE tools relied on cumbersome fscommands) and the Flash based GUI.

For various reasons, the Rubberduck team split up along the way (we still like to have beers together, though :-) and Screenweaver development came to a halt.

Fortunately, Edwin now has decided to go open source with Screenweaver and Screenweaver Core! He and Darron Schall have been working hard to put a project page online at osflash.org and Edwin has been converting the original C++ 6 source files to C++ 7.

This is awesome news! I hope to contribute by working on a new Flash based GUI for Screenweaver OS.

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