Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash). In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as two separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash. “Software development” redirects here. ... Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... Code complete redirects here. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... “Windows” redirects here. ... Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ... An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... For mime as an art form, see mime artist. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products as Macromedia Flash. ... Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player, and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. ... This article is about the proprietary file format . ... This article is about the proprietary file format . ... A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ... Macromedia Authorware (now part of Adobe Systems) is an interpreted, flowchart based, graphical programming language. ...

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. Other 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. Furthermore, Shockwave's functionality can be extended with so-called "Xtras". IRC redirects here. ... Xtras are plug-in applications (alternatively know as extensions, add-ons, or components) for Macromedia products, in particular Macromedia Director or Authorware. ...

Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux or Solaris despite vocal lobbying efforts.^[1] However, the Shockwave Player can be installed on Linux with CrossOver or by running a Windows version of a supported browser in Wine. According to Adobe, Macromedia Shockwave Player is available on 52.3% of Internet-enabled PCs.^[2] It uses .DCR files created using the authoring tool Macromedia Director. This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... Look up Crossover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wine is a project which aims to allow a PC with an x86 architecture processor running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. ... Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ... Macromedia Director is a media application created by Macromedia—now part of Adobe Systems. ...

External links

• Shockwave.com (Shockwave.com) - games website created as an independent company in 1999 by Macromedia^[3] and merged with AtomFilms in 2001^[4].
• Adobe Official Homepage
• What's the difference between Shockwave and Flash? (dated 2004)
• How Stuff Works - The Difference Between Flash and Shockwave
• Shockwave3d.com - hundreds of examples of Shockwave's 3D capabilities
• shockbreak.com - free online 3d games

Shockwave. ... AtomFilms is a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject films, animations, and series by independent creators. ...

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