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After a long beta and golden master period, Franklin 3D for Runrev is now available. This puts a powerful, hardware accelerated 3D game engine into the hands of Windows and Mac OS X developers. Read the rest of this entry »

Mirye Runtime Revolution 3 introduces some incredible productivity and feature enhancements. This is an article covering one of the seven top new features of Revolution 3, the cross-platform, multimedia and application tool kit. The first outstanding new feature in Revolution 3 is the new Start Center. Read the rest of this entry »

Mirye Software has released Runtime Revolution 3, the cross-platform, multimedia and application development tool. There are many things to like about Runtime Revolution – its very easy to learn, and it lets you create multimedia solutions just as well as standard interface applications. But that’s not the best feature.

The best feature is that you can create your application on one OS and deploy to multiple operating systems. Build in Mac OS X for example, and you can compile for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux – and the applications all look native on all platforms and don’t have that sluggish feel of Java applications.

Runtime Revolution 3 adds several new features, including a new script editor, better online help, a new start center and more. Read the rest of this entry »

Mirye Software Publishing is moving to a new release format for Runtime Revolution, modeling it on a highly successful issue format. This method includes the standard updates to the base software, but also extended benefits to customers that are eligible for software updates. Our first release in this format is Issue 808: What to Do With Your Summer.

Benefits of Mirye Runtime Revolution Issue Format

The new release format offers the following benefits:

• Additional, Permanent Benefits. These are benefits that customers receive regardless of when they are announced. With this first issue, Studio and Enterprise customers receive Valentina for Revolution 3.1 ADK Advanced, the ultra fast database toolkit for Revolution.
• Limited, Timed Benefits. These benefits are only available if you download them within the limited time. With this first issue, Media, Studio and Enterprise customers receive the Business as Unusual Volume 1 collection of 20 royalty free soundtracks.
• News and Articles. With each release, there will be news, articles and tips offered to help enhance your use of Revolution.
• Special Offers. You can get special member offers for other, or third party products that will enhance your use of Revolution.

The Why Behind Mirye Runtime Revolution Format Change

Mirye Runtime Revolution is a professional tool for creating and deploying cross platform applications on all major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In many respects, it overlaps and competes with the likes of Adobe Director, REAL Software REALbasic, MS Visual Basic, Java and even Adobe Flash or Microsoft’s .net framework.

Mirye Runtime Revolution overlaps with REALbasic, Java and .net framework in that it can deploy to multiple operating systems using mostly the same code base. But that simply describes features in the last step of a work flow pipeline – not the entire pipeline of a release.

Designers that have experience with Adobe Director, Flash or Microsoft’s new Expression more likely to recognize the pipeline, because these products also excel in aggregating combinations of audio, video and graphics assets. These are elements that are usually developed by someone else and upstream in the workflow pipeline.

Teams though can share more than just assets – but the knowledge of how to best exploit the use of those assets at each point in the work flow.

This brings us back to the format change and the question: Is Mirye Runtime Revolution only a deployment technology, or does it encompass the aggregated assets and knowledge? Even if you are a weekend developer and you wear all the hats of artist, layout designer, sound technician and coder, an additional benefit at any point in your work flow pipeline provides benefits to the entire project.

This brings us back to our new issues format. By providing ongoing knowledge and benefits in an magazine-like issue format – expanded beyond a software only update – a release can deliver benefits that are more timely, and benefit your entire work flow.

If you are a customer trying to reach the Runtime Revolution website, read the news on the Mirye Software Community Site for information about why the site is currently down. It should be back in within the next few days. Mirye Software is not impacted by this.

Day 2 of the core Revolution Live conference continues. Read the rest of this entry »

Easy Report Generation from the Makers of Valentina Database

Valentina Reports for Cross Platform Applications

Paradigma Software Inc develops the ultra-fast, cross-platform database system Valentina. Valentina Reports is a new client technology that lets you play back rich, formatted reports in your application.

Features for Initial Release

• Layout Visually Rich Reports in Valentina Studio Pro Beta (free during beta period)
• Drag Query Objects into Layouts
• Organize your data into Groups
• Add layout elements such as labels, lines, vector shapes, pictures
• Pull and display pictures from databases
• HTML/Web Object pulls pages from databases or live from URL
• Support for all major development environments on Windows and Mac OS X (Linux coming)
• Exports PDF and bitmap graphics of reports
• Royalty free application deployment

Examples of supported environments include Runtime Revolution, Adobe Director, Apple xCode, .net and more. Read the rest of this entry »

Revolution Live 2008 begins today. Revolution Live 2008 is a conference for developers that use Runtime Revolution, a cross platform development tool published in North America by co-sponsor Mirye Software.

Ill be updating throughout the day. Read the rest of this entry »

Beaverton, Oregon. Mirye Software, publishers of the cross-platform application development system Runtime Revolution, announces the release of Revolution 2.9 Studio and Enterprise, which includes enhanced support for Linux, Windows Vista, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 and over 500 improvements. Read the rest of this entry »

After reading a great article in Practical Web Design on FaceBook integration, we set up both the Runtime Revolution Facebook Group and Valentina Facebook Group on…Facebook. Tom McGrath of Lazy River Software asked me earlier today why you’d want to spread yourself so thin across multiple venues. There are plenty of social implications – its extremely hard to keep up with all of these social networking venues. They all want to own our identity and content – and they all (the ones that will survive) offer integration APIs, videos, music and more to get you to participate.

But this really isn’t about the technology – its about the socializing and appropriate venue. It seems like that simple truth may be eluding many, who probably have already forgotten what drew them to pre-Web 2.0 venues that very much were about where you hung out. The more you can get your face out there in the right venue, the more likely you will meet others of that also like that venue.