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Holy crap Shockwave works in Linux!
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:11 pm
by Patrick
I was on the pbskids.org website with my son and we went to one of the shockwave games and lo and behold the shockware installer started up. I restarted firefox and most of the shockwave portions of the site work. I then went to the shockwave game website and played a bunch of games. All I have to say is it's about time!!!
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:15 pm
by Wally Balljacker
Hey Pat, you have a link to download it by any chance? I didn't see anything about Linux on the Adobe page.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:05 pm
by Patrick
Wally Balljacker wrote:Hey Pat, you have a link to download it by any chance? I didn't see anything about Linux on the Adobe page.
You know I didn't see any mention of this anywhere. I was just on the pbskids.org site playing some games with my son and the installer started up by itself. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.6 on Suse 10.1 on my workstation. I just played a bunch of games on shockwave.com:
skypatrol
helipatrol
streaker
Some of the games crash but most run ok.
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:03 am
by Patrick
Here's a couple of screenshots of The Streaking Game:
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:27 am
by dann
I think there is a subset of shockwave apps that do not run properly in anything but Windows. One of the other problems I have noticed in the past is that some sites use some funky javascript browser/flash detection that only allows the media to be played in internet explorer on Windows.