Re: shockwave on new Macs and Vista?

On 30-01-2007, Hipolito Troy kindly wrote:
> We are currently developing some large projects with
Director but found
>out the shockwave does not work on the new Macs
(Win/Tel).
>
> So mac no longer supports shockwave?

Not without some fiddling, no. But Adobe apparently doesn't
care that much
and waits until the full Director Update to fix it. They
forget that Flash
couldn't have been bought by Macromedia if it hadn't had the
cash that
Director for Mac generated. Adobe also used to be a Mac
outfit, as memory
serves me right. Not anymore.

The fiddling involves putting the browser in Rosetta mode so
it runs in
emulation. Select the Safari app (or other browser) in the
Finder and do a
Cmd-I (Get Info) on it. In that pane you can change if
Safari runs natively
or in Rosetta. Not something your avarage Web site visitor
will (want to)
do.

> Also does it run on Vista?

Macs do run Vista nowadays. Oh wait, does Shockwave run on
Vista? Yes it
does, Vista is not that different than other Windows OS's.

-- 
mare
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> The fiddling involves putting the browser in Rosetta
mode so it runs in
> emulation. Select the Safari app (or other browser) in
the Finder and do a
> Cmd-I (Get Info) on it. In that pane you can change if
Safari runs 
> natively
> or in Rosetta. Not something your avarage Web site
visitor will (want to)
> do.

Are you serious? I thought Shockwave just ran slowly on the
new Intel Macs, 
I didn't know it was completely broken!  No word whatsoever
from Adobe about 
this???

- Chris 

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