Seems like I've always had two copies of Safari on my Intel iMac at home -- one vanilla, and one with the "Open using Rosetta" checkbox flagged. Why would I need to keep a legacy browser on hand? Well, when you have young children, the Shockwave-based games at nickjr.com and other kid sites depend on the Adobe plugin for animation and interactivity, and there wasn't any Intel version. "Be patient," I told myself, as the plodding launches of the Safari Rosetta copy drove me and my kids nuts. "Adobe's going to release the Universal Binary soon. Surely, by the end of 2006, they'll do it."Now, a full two years since the introduction of the original Intel Macs, we finally have the last big-ticket plugin recompiled and rewritten as Shockwave Player 11, all ready for the no-longer-new machines. Phew. I don't know about you all, but I've got a copy of Safari that's just begging to be thrown in the trash. Note that Adobe's Shockwave badge on the front page still redirects to a "how to run Shockwave on Intel Macs" instruction sheet. Go straight to the download and skip the static.
Thanks Andrew & Alan
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3-28-2008 @ 3:55PM
Jawshy said...
Finally! I have been waiting for this since I got a mac.
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3-28-2008 @ 4:01PM
alumis said...
I downloaded the new Shockwave plugin and then found two great, free Shockwave games at http://gigaplay.com.
What a happy day!
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3-28-2008 @ 4:13PM
Larson said...
Wooot! It took them long enough. I figured they would've done this a long time ago but I guess different people and companies have different priorities. This however, should've been higher up on the list.
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3-28-2008 @ 4:34PM
Evan Holt said...
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to add the (arcadeemulator2) Xtra that is required to play the Shockwave games at http://www.midway.com/page/ClassicGames.html
Thanks in advance!
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4-04-2008 @ 9:53PM
gary said...
I'm having the same problem with ArcadeEmulator2. It says either it does not exist or it failed to initialize. I've been playing Defender 2 for a few weeks and something happened that is preventing Shockwave from functioning. Thanks for any help I can get to solve this problem.
3-28-2008 @ 4:43PM
OwlBoy said...
wow, this is still used? I thought most went to flash.
Can't say I have run across Shockwave in many many years. even before Intel Macs.
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3-28-2008 @ 5:50PM
Phil said...
It doesn't seem to install into Firefox 3 beta 4, and the package didn't have an obvious plugin thingy I could copy manually. Has anyone using FF3b4 had any luck with this?
-- Phil
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3-28-2008 @ 6:58PM
FourOhFour said...
iSketch is unplayable with the new Shockwave player. (Other's sketches appear as gibberish) Also, the UI is far less responsive than running the older Shockwave in Rosetta. I don't know if this is iSketch's problem or Shockwave's.
iSketch: http://www.isketch.net/
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3-29-2008 @ 9:51PM
Ethan said...
Noticed that. Not just me then. Guess I should tell adobe.
3-28-2008 @ 8:36PM
Tavis Booth said...
Lennyloose jocks doesnt play right. Everything seems very un-responsive.
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3-28-2008 @ 8:59PM
Ryan said...
Finally! I hate Rosetta, so this is going to be awesome! Thanks for letting us know!
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3-28-2008 @ 9:46PM
decypher44 said...
I also am having problems with iSketch. That was the only site I needed Shockwave for, and it doesn't work right. Oh, well. Maybe 11.1 will fix it.
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3-28-2008 @ 10:04PM
Just_a_guy said...
I am so glad to see this technology hasn't died yet...
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3-29-2008 @ 12:14AM
Dorkus Malorkus said...
The bigger thing for me is that Adobe also quietly slipped out Adobe Director 11, as an Intel-Mac-Compatible app. I figured that app had fallen to the same fate as Macromedia FreeHand.
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3-29-2008 @ 12:14AM
Derek said...
Just installed it on my Mac and now all of my Shockwave based language lessons for college have stopped working. Something about a missing Xtra (FLT Ear) whatever that is. Awesome. Thanks Adobe! Or Rosetta Stone, whichever one of you jerks programmed crap software.
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3-30-2008 @ 8:20PM
ebernet said...
Derek, your an ass. Someone gives you free software, that they developed years ago. and you call them crap and degrade them?
The Shockwave plugin shipped yesterday. Director is an extensible architecture that depends on many of its own plug-ins called Xtras - and for many people who develop those it was uncertain if there was going to eve BE an Intel native Shockwave plugin. To blame either the Xtra developers, or even worse, the developers of the the free shockwave program for you for not having an Intel Native Xtra available for you the day the Plug-in shipped is an ungrateful attitude and I would not be rushing to update the Xtra for you...
3-29-2008 @ 6:09AM
Karen LH said...
I had the same problem with Rosetta Stone Online, which I access with Firefox running under Rosetta. Run the uninstall script that came with the shockwave download. Then try to bring up Rosetta Stone again. You will have to reinstall the old plugin, but after that it should work.
4-02-2008 @ 11:28AM
Thomas said...
Xtras are plugins that enhance your Shockwave App. If the missing Xtra isn't available (yet) for Shockwave 11 the thing can't run - it's that easy. No way blaming Adobe for this!
3-29-2008 @ 7:30AM
Kenty said...
wow.. shockwave stuff must be pretty rare? I don't remember needing to install it in the last 3 years or so. What can it do that Flash can't? I've even played an MMO that runs in Flash!
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3-29-2008 @ 12:03PM
Ethan said...
I'm off to play isketch without lag!
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