The final update for Adobe Shockwave Player was released on March 15, 2019. In February 2019, Adobe announced that Adobe Shockwave, including the Shockwave Player, would be discontinued in April 2019. Flash Player cannot display Shockwave content, and Shockwave Player cannot display Flash content. As of 2015, Flash Player is a suitable alternative to Shockwave Player, with its 3D rendering capabilities and object-oriented programming language. Īs 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. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Shockwave, and published on websites such as Miniclip and. Shockwave Player supported raster graphics, basic vector graphics, 3D graphics, audio, and an embedded scripting language called Lingo. Shockwave Player ran DCR files published by the Adobe Director environment. It was first developed by Macromedia and released in 1995 it was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.

Such content could be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. Content was developed with Adobe Director and published on the Internet. htmlĪdobe Shockwave Player (formerly Macromedia Shockwave Player, and also known as Shockwave for Director) is a discontinued freeware software plug-in for viewing multimedia and video games created on the Adobe Shockwave platform in web pages. com /shockwave /shockwave-end-of-life-faq.

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