Unlike Flash Player, Shockwave Player is not available for Linux or Solaris despite intense lobbying efforts. However, there was a notable break in support for the Macintosh between January 2006 (when Apple initiated their transition to Intel processors, starting with the Intel Core Duo) and March 2008 (when Adobe Systems released Shockwave 11, the first version to run natively on Intel Macs).
Shockwave was available as a plug-in for the classic Mac OS, Mac OS X, and 32 bit Windows for most of its history.
Last update for Mac OS X before discontinuation. From version 12.1.5.155 Shockwave is supported in both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It has content made from previous versions as well as Director MX 2004. Shockwave 12 Shockwave 12.1 It is supported by 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8. Shockwave 11 Added support for Intel-based Macs. Shockwave 9 Shockwave 10 Last version to support Mac OS X 10.3 and lower, and Mac OS 9. Shockwave 8.5 Added support for Intel's 3D technologies including rendering. Added support for Shockwave Multiuser Server. Shockwave 7 Added support for linked media including images and casts. Shockwave 6 Added support for Shockwave Audio (swa) which consisted of the emerging MP3 file format with some additional headers. Macromedia Director 5 Shockwave 5 Afterburner is integrated into the Director 5.0 authoring tool as an Xtra. The first large-scale multimedia site to use Shockwave was Intel's 25th Anniversary of the Microprocessor. Shockwave 1 The Shockwave plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0 was first released in June 1995, along with the stand-alone Afterburner utility to compress Director files for Shockwave playback. Its version has since been tied to Director's, thus there were no Shockwave 2–4 releases. Version 1.0 of Shockwave was released independent of Director 4 and its development schedule has coincided with the release of Director since version 5. The Shockwave player was originally developed for the Netscape browser by Macromedia Director team members Harry Chesley, John Newlin, Sarah Allen, and Ken Day, influenced by a previous plug-in that Macromedia had created for Microsoft's Blackbird. Logo for Shockwave content authored with Macromedia Director from 1995 to 1997. However, Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, and Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content. By 2015, Flash Player has become a suitable alternative to Shockwave Player, with its 3D rendering capabilities and object-oriented programming language. Īs of July 2011, a survey found that Flash Player had 99% market penetration in desktop browsers in "mature markets" (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), while Shockwave Player claimed only 41% in these markets.
Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as Miniclip and. Shockwave Player supported raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, digital audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo. Shockwave Player ran DCR files published by the Adobe Director environment. It was first developed by Macromedia, and released in 1995 and was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Such content can be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. Content is developed with Adobe Director and published on the Internet. You can help the Adobe Wiki by updating it.Īdobe Shockwave Player (formerly Macromedia Shockwave Player and also known as Shockwave for Director), was a freeware plug-in for viewing multimedia and video games in web pages, content created on the Adobe Shockwave platform. There are Adobe test pages for each so you want to make sure that AFP succeeds and the other ASP fails to play.This article needs to be dewikipediafied. If this is accurate can someone get Firefox to name things correctly, AND if article is accurate let this be a warning to others that they NOT use ASP, but as needed rely on AFP. My Firefox is working, but this confusion of calling things by their proper (or at least a unique name) seems crazy to me. Mozilla Firefox users should note that the presence of the “Shockwave Flash” plugin listed in the Firefox Add-ons section denotes an installation of Adobe Flash Player plugin - not Adobe Shockwave Player. According to this security alert web article ASP is far less secure than AFP which itself isn't great. Adobe various websites and now seemingly Firefox seem to continually confuse and obscure things regarding the two different Adobe Players (Adobe Flash Player AFP and Adobe Shockwave Player ASP).