Director 8.5 content in mac OS X

I'm not a Director user, so please bear with me. I maintain
an interactive kiosk in a children's discovery room. The content
for the kiosk was created with Director 8 educational version some
6 years ago and has been running on a G4 tower operating on OS 9.1.
The touchscreen blew out, and I can't find a new model which will
work with system 9, so I need to find a way to update the existing
content to work natively in OS X. Any advice? Can this be done
simply in Director MX?
Thanks,
Danny

For most projects, it should work as is. Just open with mx04,
update and
publish. Note that one or two things -like the timeout object
syntax- has
changed since v8. Even if you project includes such objects
though, it
should be a mater of minutes to changed the required lines.
Why don't you
download a trial version and check it yourself?
http://www.adobe.com/products/director/download/
"amnheduser" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> I'm not a Director user, so please bear with me. I
maintain an
> interactive
> kiosk in a children's discovery room. The content for
the kiosk was
> created
> with Director 8 educational version some 6 years ago and
has been running
> on a
> G4 tower operating on OS 9.1. The touchscreen blew out,
and I can't find
> a new
> model which will work with system 9, so I need to find a
way to update the
> existing content to work natively in OS X. Any advice?
Can this be done
> simply in Director MX?
>
> Thanks,
> Danny
>

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