I recall seeing a Macromedia Director player but never heard of a DirectX port. In any case the lack of hardware floating point in most of their machines was looking like a big mistake by the mid 90s. Their compilers were also way off the pace and that was getting to be a problem.

Tbh I think I am slightly bitter about having stuck with Acorn a bit too much, and should have jumped away sooner. It is clear Acorn knew they were toast even before the Risc PC. A lot of these very impressive developments were consequently glorious wastes of time, which is kind of tragic too.