Authorware was originally produced by Authorware I, founded in 1987 by D Michael A Allen had contributed to the development of the PLATO collaborative learning system during the Originally titled Course of Action (CoA), it was a Macintosh-only It produced runtime programs for DOS Authorware came later and produced DOS runtime versions until the release of the first Windows Authorware I merged with MacroMind/Paracomp in 1992 to form M In December 2005, Adobe and Macromedia merged, under the Adobe Systems The most recent version of Authorware is 02; version 7 was released in It was generally known in the Authorware development community that version 0 was in production prior to the merger between the two companies, with 4 beta versions released to external testing shortly before the merger was Among several other features slated for the new version, the ability to publish to Flash's SWF (ShockWave Flash) was at the top of the Once production shifted to Adobe's off-shore development facility in Bangalore, India, the free-flow of information that had been enjoyed between Macromedia's engineering team and its beta testers was On Friday, August 3, 2007, after several years of keeping the development community in limbo, Adobe finally announced its plans to discontinue development of A