NOTE: You have to install a compatible web browser before running the Adobe Shockwave Player installer! If you install a new compatible browser, you must run the installer again if you want to play games made with Adobe Shockwave with it!

Install the desired browser as usual, when you finish with the installation don't open your browser yet.

SeaMonkey is not compatible with Adobe Shockwave Player anymore.

Here are some browser that were tested and known to work Make sure you download the 32-bit, win32 or x86 build (x86_64 or amd64 browsers can't load Adobe Shockwave Player) if you are using Windows. To able to load a Adobe Shockwave Player applet, first you have to install a suitable browser that still supports the plugin.

If it's already installed, run the Adobe Shockwave Player installer again NOTE: To able the browser to find the Adobe Shockwave plugin, you have to install it after installing Adobe Shockwave Player. Installing a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 2010Īdobe Shockwave Director required the 32-bit version of Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 2010 to be installed, it may be already installed on your computer but if it's not you can download it from Microsoft's website 2.

Shockwave Bad Drivers (required on some computers)ġ.

Installing a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 2010.

Therefore it's highly recommended to use any Adobe Shockwave applets in a virtual machine like VirtualBox, VMware Workstation Player or QEMU. WARNING! Support for Adobe Shockwave Player has been discontinued in April 2019, since then Adobe does not provide any security patches for Shockwave player from now on. Adobe Shockwave Player never supported GNU/Linux. This guide covers it's usage on Windows, though the procedure should be similar also on macOS. In this day and age support for Adobe Shockwave Player has been dropped from both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

To able to load any Shockwave Director applet like Spineworld you need to use a browser that still supports Adobe Shockwave.

Using Adobe Director Shockwave applets in the present day.

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