Shockwave On Windows CE!

Shockwave is no longer just Windows and Mac. It now runs on Windows CE too. For those of you not familiar with it, Windows CE is what runs on handheld devices and set-top boxes. It is a very different operating system than Windows, requiring new versions of applications as Windows software just isn’t compatible.

So now we can finally start to see Shockwave on devices other than PCs and Macs. The first such device is the PIC from AMD. It is a tiny computer that is meant to be a low-priced solution to getting computers into the hands of people in 3rd-world countires and such. Check out the full press release:

BSQUARE ports Macromedia Shockwave Player to AMD%u2019s Personal Internet Communicator (PIC).

This appears to be a full port of Shockwave, with Flash Xtra and 3D Xtra included [CORRECTION: No 3D], and it is version 10.1. Of course most Windows CE devices are pretty low-powered, so I’d imagine a lot of high-end Shockwave content won’t run. But that is par for the course with Windows CE devices, which struggle to run high-end media like Flash and such.

So it looks like Adobe IS spending money and energy on Director/Shockwave!

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3 Responses to “Shockwave On Windows CE!”

1. Marty Plumbo Says:
   May 16th, 2006 at 8:16 am

   Wow - I’d almost forgotten what it was like to hear good news about Director!

   
   

   This is an awesome announcement, and hopefully the first of many.
   
   

   
   
2. Tom Higgins Says:
   May 16th, 2006 at 3:22 pm

   Please note that this particular Windows CE Shockwave Player implementation does _not_ have a 3D Asset Xtra. It was decided early on during this player port that the PIC hardware as it is today would not handle 3D content well at all and so the project was done without porting the 3D Asset Xtra in particular. Please note that there are a few other unsupported features due to the limitations of the PIC device itself (no DVD, no QuickTime support, no RealMedia support, no 3D, there may be a few others that are escaping me, sorry).

   
   

   That having been said this port does have a Flash Asset Xtra although it is based off of Flash Player 7, I’m stating that to be clear so folks don’t think that this Shockwave Player has the new Flash 8 Asset Xtra we just released.

   
   

   Oh, yes, we had parallel projects going: Shockwave 10.1.1 with the new Flash 8 Asset Xtra and the Windows CE port. There is work being done on our product…
   
   

   
   
3. Mitchell Omeili Says:
   July 8th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

   I think its a good idea but I would like it more if they supported those on Windows 95 again.
   
   

   
   

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