Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia Macromedia was a North American graphics and Web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products as Macromedia Flash as well as Macromedia Dreamweaver. The line of Macromedia products is now controlled by its former rival, Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005's first multimedia player. It allows Adobe Director Adobe Director is a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems. It allows users to build applications built on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie. Originally designed for creating animation sequences, the addition of a powerful scripting language called Lingo applications to be published on the Internet and viewed in a web browser A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to by anyone who has the Shockwave plug-in installed.

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Description

Shockwave movies are authored in the Adobe Director Adobe Director is a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems. It allows users to build applications built on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie. Originally designed for creating animation sequences, the addition of a powerful scripting language called Lingo environment. While there is support for including Flash movies inside Shockwave files, authors often choose the Shockwave Director combination over Flash because it offers more features and more powerful tools. Features not replicated by Flash include a much faster rendering engine, including hardware-accelerated 3D, and support for various network protocols, including Internet Relay Chat Internet Relay Chat is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfers via Direct Client-to-Client. Furthermore, Shockwave's functionality can be extended with so-called "Xtras".

Platform support

Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL and other free or Solaris Solaris is a UNIX-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS despite vocal lobbying efforts. However, the Shockwave Player can be installed on Linux with CrossOver CrossOver, known before version 6.0 as CrossOver Office, is the collective name for four commercial and proprietary programs developed by CodeWeavers that allow many Windows-based applications to run on Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris using a compatibility layer. The programs include CrossOver Mac, CrossOver Linux, CrossOver Games Mac, and CrossOver or by running a Windows version of a supported browser in Wine Wine is a free software application that aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 or x86-64 architecture to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems (with varying degrees of success).

Shockwave was available as a plug-in for both Mac OS Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface. The original form of what Apple would later name the "Mac OS" was the integral and and Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal for most of its history. However, there was a notable break in support for the Macintosh Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface between January 2006 (when Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include Macintosh computers, the iPod and the iPhone. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity released Apple Intel transition The Apple–Intel transition was the process of changing the CPU of Macintosh computers from PowerPC processors to Intel x86 processors. The transition became public knowledge at the 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference , when Apple inc. CEO Steve Jobs made the announcement that the company would make a transition from the use of PowerPC based on the Intel Core Duo) and March 2008 (when Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development released Shockwave 11, the first version to run natively on Intel Macs).

Applications

Although Shockwave was designed for making a wide variety of online movies and animations, its actual use has become concentrated in the area of game development. It is often used in online applications which require a very rich graphical environment. Online Learning tools which simulate real-world physics or involve significant graphing, charting, or calculation sometimes use Shockwave.

History

The Shockwave player originally began as a helper app developed for Netscape by Director team members Christian Hunt and David Walker as a proof of concept for playing multimedia content over the web. Version 1.0 was released independent of Director 4 and its development schedule has since coincided with the release of Director since version 5. Its versioning also has since been tied to Director's and thus there were no Shockwave 2-4 releases.

Shockwave 1

The Shockwave plug-in for Netscape Navigator 2.0 is released in 1995, along with the standalone Afterburner utility to compress Director files for Shockwave playback. The first large-scale multimedia site to use Shockwave was Intel's 25th Anniversary of the Microprocessor

Shockwave 5

Afterburner is integrated into the Director 5.0 authoring tool as an Xtra.

Shockwave 6

Added support for Shockwave Audio (swa) which consisted of the emerging MP3 file format with some additional headers.

Shockwave 7

Added support for linked media including images and casts Added support for Shockwave Multiuser Server

Shockwave 8.5

Added support for Intel's 3D technologies including rendering.

Shockwave 10

Last version to support Mac OS X 10.3 and lower, and Mac OS 9 Mac OS 9 is the final major release of Apple's "Classic" Mac OS. Introduced on October 23, 1999, Apple positioned it as "The Best Internet Operating System Ever," highlighting Sherlock 2's Internet search capabilities, integration with Apple's free online services known as iTools, and improved Open Transport networking

Shockwave 11

Added support for Intel-based Macs The Apple–Intel transition was the process of changing the CPU of Macintosh computers from PowerPC processors to Intel x86 processors. The transition became public knowledge at the 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference , when Apple inc. CEO Steve Jobs made the announcement that the company would make a transition from the use of PowerPC.

Branding and name confusion

In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prefixed Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash The file format SWF a partially open repository for multimedia and especially for vector graphics, originated with FutureWave Software and has come under the control of Adobe. Intended to be small enough for publication on the web, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash The file format SWF a partially open repository for multimedia and especially for vector graphics, originated with FutureWave Software and has come under the control of Adobe. Intended to be small enough for publication on the web, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function became more difficult to maintain as separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins In computing, a plug-in consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application (a web browser or an email client, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function "on demand". Applications support plugins for many reasons. Some of the main reasons include: under the brand names Macromedia Authorware Macromedia Authorware was an interpreted, flowchart based, graphical programming language. Authorware is used for creating interactive programs that can integrate a range of multimedia content, particularly e-learning applications. The flowchart model differentiates Authorware from other authoring tools, such as Flash and Director, which rely on a, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash.

Macromedia also released a web browser plug-in for viewing Macromedia FreeHand files online. It was branded Macromedia Shockwave for FreeHand and displayed specially compressed .fhc Freehand files. [1]

Later, with the acquisition of Macromedia Macromedia was a North American graphics and Web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products as Macromedia Flash as well as Macromedia Dreamweaver. The line of Macromedia products is now controlled by its former rival, Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005, Adobe Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development slowly began to rebrand all products related to Shockwave.

Market penetration

According to Adobe Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development, Shockwave Player is available on 58.0% of Internet-enabled PCs.[2] It uses .DCR files created using the authoring tool Adobe Director Adobe Director is a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems. It allows users to build applications built on a movie metaphor, with the user as the "director" of the movie. Originally designed for creating animation sequences, the addition of a powerful scripting language called Lingo.

External links

References

  1. ^ Perry Board, Rick Luna and Derek O'Dell (1996). Creating Shockwave Web Pages - Chapter 20 Shockwave for Freehand. Que Corporation. ISBN 0-7897-0903-1. http://www4.dogus.edu.tr/bim/bil_kay/pak_prog/shockwave/ch20.htm. Retrieved on 2008 2008 was a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini era (or Common Era)-03-30 March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 276 days remaining until the end of the year.
  2. ^ Brown, Millward. "Shockwave Player Adoption Statistics". Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/shockwaveplayer/. Retrieved on 2009-01-20.
  3. ^ The Shockwave.com Of The Future - Forbes.com
  4. ^ AtomFilms to Merge with Shockwave.com
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Q. I wanted to play isketch.net so l went on the website and it said about that l needed to install Adobe shockwave player, so l did that. Then after lt was successfully installed, l went on it again on Mozilla and it still said i need to install it. I went on Google Chrome and that worked fine. How can l get it to work on Firefox aswel? Thnx :)
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