There was friendly and timely response from Allen Communication's technical support. The Academy tutorials and manuals were clear, comprehensive and frequently updated. Title and frame level authoring are easy to understand. You can make most objects live or available for interactivity. Authorware's one-directional flowchart is good for simple applications but not for complex ones.
Linear action branching to linear action is easy to accomplish.
Other branching is complex to handle, especially tracking each individual's use or backing up the path an individual followed. The one-directional flowchart isn't what it appears. The flowchart look can be initially confusing. It is a visual representation for building subroutines, it is not flowcharting. Libraries have limited storage-recall capabilities.