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| Description | |
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Shockwave movies are authored in the Adobe Director 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. Also, Shockwave's functionality can be extended with "Xtras".
[edit] Tags:Adobe Director,Flash,Internet Relay Chat,Xtras,More, | |
| Platform support | |
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Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux or Solaris despite intense lobbying efforts. However, the Shockwave Player can be installed on Linux with CrossOver or by running a Windows version of a supported browser in Wine (with varying degrees of success).
Shockwave was available as a plug-in for both Mac OS and Windows for most of its history. However, there was a notable break in support for the Macintosh between January 2006 (when Apple Inc. released Apple–Intel transition based on the Intel Core Duo) and March 2008 (when Adobe Systems released Shockwave 11, the first version to run natively on Intel Macs).
[edit] Tags:Adobe Systems,Linux,Solaris,Crossover,Wine,Mac Os,Windows,Macintosh,Apple Inc.,Apple–intel Transition,Intel Core Duo, | |
| Applications | |
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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.
[edit] Tags:Animation,Online Learning, | |
| History | |
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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. Version 1.0 of Shockwave 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 was 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.
Shockwave 11
Added support for Intel-based Macs.
[edit] Tags:Mac Os 9,Mac Os X,Multimedia,Macromedia,Netscape Browser,Harry Chesley,Mac Os X 10.3,Intel-based Macs, | |
| Branding and name confusion | |
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In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prefixed Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, 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.[3]
Later, with the acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems slowly began to rebrand all products related to Shockwave.
[edit] Tags:Web Browser,Shockwave Flash,Plugins,Macromedia Authorware,Macromedia Freehand,Rebrand, | |
| Market penetration | |
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According to Adobe Systems, a Millward Brown survey conducted in December 2010 finds that Shockwave content reaches 52% of Internet viewers.[4] Over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops have Adobe Shockwave Player installed. It uses .DCR (a Director Compressed Resource) files created using the authoring tool Adobe Director.
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| References | |
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^ Adobe Software License Agreement. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
^ Elia, Eric (1996). "Macromedia unveils Shockwave and Director 5". HyperMedia Communications. ISSN 1060-7188. http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Computers-and-office-automation-industries/Macromedia-unveils-Shockwave-and-Director-5-Director-5-MOA-better-Xtras.html. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
^ Perry Board; Rick Luna; Derek O'Dell (1996). "Chapter 20 - Shockwave for Freehand". Creating Shockwave Web Pages. Que Corporation. ISBN 0-7897-0903-1. http://www4.dogus.edu.tr/bim/bil_kay/pak_prog/shockwave/ch20.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
^ Brown, Millward. "Shockwave Player Adoption Statistics". Adobe Systems. http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/shockwaveplayer/. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
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| External links | |
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Adobe Shockwave Player
Adobe.com/shockwave/welcome - Test your Shockwave and Flash plugins
Adobe.com/TechnoteAdobe.com/Technote using The Wayback Machine - What's the difference between Shockwave and Flash? (dated 2004)
How Stuff Works - The Difference Between Flash and Shockwave
Shockwave.com, games website created as an independent company in 1999 by Macromedia[el 1] and merged with AtomFilms in 2001.[el 2]
Shockwave3d.com - hundreds of examples of Shockwave's 3D capabilities
Dean's Shockwave Hall of Fame
^ Jon Swartz, 04.25.00, 12:00 AM ET (1999-12-31). "The Shockwave.com Of The Future". Forbes.com. http://www.forbes.com/2000/04/25/feat2.html. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
^ "AtomFilms to Merge with Shockwave.com". Internetnews.com. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3851_537931. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
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