History
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.
Read more about this topic: Adobe Shockwave
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