Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) is a multimedia player Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. Most software media players support an array of media formats, including both audio and video files program, first developed by Macromedia Macromedia, an American graphics and web-development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California, produced such products as Macromedia Flash as well as Macromedia Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and as of 2010[update] controls the line of Macromedia products, acquired by 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 in 2005. 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 on any computer which 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 Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" ("RIAs") 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 Xtras' are plug-in applications for Macromedia products (now owned by Adobe), in particular Adobe Director. They can be user-created, or bought from third party vendors. Adobe maintains a list of third party Xtras. Many of Director's own functions are implemented as Xtras".
Platform support
Unlike Flash, the Shockwave browser plugin is not available for Linux Linux refers to the family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel. Linux can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from mobile phones, tablet computers and video game consoles, to mainframes and supercomputers. Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers; in 2009 it held a server market share or Solaris Solaris is a Unix operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS despite intense 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, a recursive acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator, is a free software application that aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems 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 trademark-protected 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 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 The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first 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. The company continued between January 2006 (when Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite released Apple–Intel transition based on the Intel Core Duo Intel Core is a brand name used for various mid-range to high-end consumer and business microprocessors. In general, processors sold as Core are more powerful variants of the same processors marketed as entry-level Celeron and Pentium. Similarly, identical or more capable versions of Core processors are also sold as Xeon processors for the server) and March 2008 (when Adobe Systems 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 was originally developed for the Netscape browser Netscape Navigator and Netscape are the names for the proprietary web browser popular in the 1990s, the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. This was partly due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web 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 Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” is the fourth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X v10.2 “Jaguar” and preceded Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger”. Apple released Panther on October 24, 2003 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
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, is an acronym for "Small Web Format". It is a partially open repository for multimedia and vector graphics, originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe. Intended to be small enough for publication on the web, SWF files can contain animations or as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash The file format SWF, is an acronym for "Small Web Format". It is a partially open repository for multimedia and vector graphics, originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe. Intended to be small enough for publication on the web, SWF files can contain animations or became more difficult to maintain as separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins In computing, a plug-in is a set of software components that adds specific capabilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application. For example, plug-ins are commonly used in web browsers to play video, scan for viruses, and display new file types. The image on the right is a 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 Macromedia FreeHand is a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics , oriented to the professional desktop publishing market. Development has been discontinued but it is still available in versions for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X files online. It was branded Macromedia Shockwave for FreeHand and displayed specially compressed .fhc Freehand files. [2]
Later, with the acquisition of Macromedia Macromedia, an American graphics and web-development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California, produced such products as Macromedia Flash as well as Macromedia Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and as of 2010[update] controls the line of Macromedia products, Adobe Systems slowly began to rebrand Rebranding is the creation of a new name, term, symbol, design or a combination of them for an established brand with the intention of developing a differentiated position in the mind of stakeholders and competitors all products related to Shockwave.
Market penetration
According to Adobe Systems, Shockwave Player is available on 56 % of Internet-enabled PCs.[3] It uses .DCR (a Director Compressed Resource) 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.
References
- ^ "Shockwave Player Technical Details". http://www.filehippo.com/download_shockwave/tech/. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
- ^ Perry Board, Rick Luna and Derek O'Dell (1996). Creating Shockwave Web Pages - Chapter 20 Shockwave for Freehand. Que Corporation. ISBN The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code created by Gordon Foster, now Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin, for the booksellers and stationers W.H. Smith and others in 1966 0-7897-0903-1. http://www4.dogus.edu.tr/bim/bil_kay/pak_prog/shockwave/ch20.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
- ^ Brown, Millward Millward Brown is one of the world’s largest integrated market research agencies. They are part of the Kantar Group, the information, insight and consultancy arm of WPP Group plc (NASDAQ: WPPGY). "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 2009-01-20.
External links
- Adobe Shockwave Player
- Adobe.com/shockwave/welcome - Test your Shockwave and Flash plugins
- Adobe.com/Technote - 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 Atom.com is a broadband entertainment network offering original short subject films, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi in 2001.[el 2]
- Shockwave3d.com - hundreds of examples of Shockwave's 3D capabilities
- Dean's Shockwave Hall of Fame
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