Shockwave was the player for content packaged for web from Macromedia Director, a product focused on creating multimedia binaries, often distributed on CD. Sho

Shockwave was the player for content packaged for web from Macromedia Director, a product focused on creating multimedia binaries, often distributed on CD. Shockwave had much more powerful video and 3D rendering capabilities than Flash, but Director arguably died after Macromedia failed to deliver a timely OSX port.