At 06:14 PM 2/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Question #2
>What is Shockwave?
>
>Thanks very much,
>Boanne
Shockwave is the next generation (after java) of interactive graphic web
display. A shockwave can display animations, videos, and run games. You
can have sound as well as video interaction, all in streaming and
compressed format. For examples, there is a "slap the spice girls" game on
the web where you can click on the spice girl faces that pop out of holes
like a gopher game at an arcade, and if you catch one in time, you get a
point, and she reacts both aurally and visually. It is a game on the web,
you don't really download it, although you download as temporary internet
files.
Another is a series of cartoons by john kricfalusi of Ren and stimpy
cartoon fame. These cartoons are full of activity and noise, just like on
television, but also sometimes contain interactive items, like in one
session where you have to try and get a duck into an idiots bottom while
duck and idiot run around in circles chasing each other. To do this
involves also a bottle of baby oil sitting in the middle of the picture,
and a funnel, both of which must be dragged and released onto the running
idiot and duck in the right combination and order for the operation to
succeed. Quite foolish and amusing. (http://www.spumco.com)
Shockwave requires at the very least a pentium processor, 16bit soundcard,
PCI or AGP video card and 32MB RAM because it makes extensive use of
multiple processing functions and decompression in streaming format. My
586/133 with 32MB ram, built in video and soundblaster Pro card, was unable
to run it. A slow modem would also compromise it.
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