The main difference today is that Director allows for the creation of real 3D content, using Open GL on the Mac. Shockwave is a browser plug-in like Flash, but it plays back content created in Adobe Director. (Note: Adobe has not yet updated their main Shockwave link, but you can download Shockwave 11 for Intel Mac here: )Īdobe, which bought Macromedia some years back, has finally released a version of the Shockwave browser plug-in for Macs with Intel processors.
