- Shockwave Player is definitely an app for MAC that developed by Inc. We’re not directly affiliated with them. All trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos that mentioned in right here would be the assets of their respective owners.
- Various installers for Adobe Shockwave (formerly known as Macromedia Shockwave), Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Adobe Flash, called Macromedia Flash at.
- The Shockwave Player for Mac was discontinued back in 2017. If you find an old website hosting Shockwave content, it isn’t playable with any officially supported software. Luckily, the web has moved on from Shockwave, so Shockwave is something you’ll only see when browsing web pages from more than a decade ago.
- In the end, Shockwave is capable of being a major player in the Mac program market. Best of all, it’s free! Publisher’s note: As of late 2014, the current version of Shockwave requires OS X 10.7 Lion or later and officially supports Safari. You can download Shockwave 7.0 through 8.5 from Adobe using this link.
Adobe Shockwave Player is an extension for web browsers giving users access to some Web content such as dazzling 3D games and enables to post Shockwave animations on the Internet.
Shockwave Player for Mac OS 10.1 is now available from the Macromedia download center. The file size is approximately 3MB.
“This highly requested release enables Macintosh users to enjoy Shockwave content natively on Apple’s newest operating system,” according to Miriam Geller, senior product manager for Director and Shockwave Player.
Shockwave Player resides on 65 percent of Web users’ systems, reaching a growing audience of more than 270 million Web users, she said. On average, over 300,000 people install Shockwave Player daily, making it the most widely deployed 3D technology on the Web.
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And as MacCentral reported on Jan. 16, Macromedia has updated Director Shockwave Studio, the authoring software used to create Shockwave content, to version 8.5.1. It’s not Mac OS X native, but such a critter is in the works, though no timetable has been set, she added.
Warning when you run Shockwave 11.5 on Mac OS X 10.6
When you install Adobe Shockwave 11.5 on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), you receive the following warning.
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Solution 1: Update to Shockwave Player for 64-bit Mac OS
Press Command+I to open Applications Info for Safari (or Ctrl-click and choose Get Info).
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The error message appears because Adobe Shockwave 11.5 is a 32-bit application, and Mac OS X 10.6 is a 64-bit operating system. For more information on 64-bit support in Mac OS X, see What's new in Snow Leopard.