Adobe Shockwave Player
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| Original author(s) | Macromedia |
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| Developer(s) | Adobe Systems |
| Stable release |
12.2.8.198 / 14 March 2017
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 9, macOS (Universal) |
| Platform | Web browsers |
| Type | Multimedia Player / MIME type: application/x-director |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www |
Adobe Shockwave Player (formerly Macromedia Shockwave Player) is a freeware software plug-in for viewing multimedia and video games in web pages, content created on the Adobe Shockwave platform. Content is developed with Adobe Director and published on the Internet. Such content can be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. It was first developed by Macromedia, and released in 1995 and was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.
Shockwave Player runs DCR files published by the Adobe Director environment. Shockwave Player supports raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com.
As 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. As of 2015, Flash Player is a suitable alternative to Shockwave Player, with its 3D rendering capabilities and object-oriented programming language. Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, and Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content.
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