History
mTropolis (pronounced "metropolis") competed in the interactive multimedia product space dominated in the 1990s by Macromedia Director. The software's maker, mFactory (pronounced "em-factory"), founded in 1992, variously positioned mTropolis as an alternative and as an adjunct to Director.
mTropolis was bought by Quark in 1997. The use of behaviors in mTropolis spurred Macromedia on to introduce behaviors in Director 6.0.
I was there when Seery, Shepherd, meself and probably Greggy went over to the Mtrop user meetings. We straight out stole from them. - Alex Zavatone (ex Macromedia) on the Direct-L Mailing List, Tue, 9 Sep 2008
While multimedia CD-ROM authoring has largely been rendered irrelevant by online content distribution, mTropolis remains an interesting study in application design, and held a loyal following for many years.
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