Solaris X86 Shock Wave Page

Have you ever tried to get Macromedia's Shock Wave for Solaris and got frustrated only to realize that it is not available for Solarisx86 but it is for SolarisSparc.

The rants are now closed. See the last rant to download the Shcokwave Flash player for Solaris x86

You may want to try and give Juergen Keil's hack to run the Linux Flash player on X86. http://www.tools.de/solaris/flash/

Well this was an opportunity to vent and show your real willingess to support an effort.
You can also send mail to wish-flash@macromedia.com

Well they released a copy finally. http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=In tel&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4&P5_Language=English Thanks for everyone that participated (ranted)

Yes please, Shockwave Flash plugin needed for x86 Solaris 9.

Yes I also want the flash plugin for Solaris X86!

Hope Macromedia can give us flash player for another operating system. Now flash for sparc is availlable but solaris for x86 is not.Argh... hope you think about this.

Come on Macromedia guys: At this time every people try to get all users as they can... Why are you lossing the *nix people, linux, Solaris X86, Solaris Sparc.. all want flash plug in... 5 and 6... Do you want to make money....!!!??

I use Solaris 8 x86 and i need the Flashplayer-Plugin for Netscape!

I'm a solaris x86 and linux user. Since you already ported solaris to both Linux and Solaris Sparc, it should be trivially simple to provide a binary for solaris x86. Why don't you do that? Don't you see the number of users that you'll gain by doing this?

I need flashplayer for Solaris9_x86

Support for Solaris/Intel! Please! Our shop has approximately 200 Solaris/Intel users that make use of Mozilla browsers. They are currently unable to view Flash pages due to the lack of an available Flash plugin. Recompiling the Linux plugin for Solaris/Intel should be an almost trivial affair-- some people have already gotten it working (on older Mozillas) using a Linux emulation package. Please consider devoting some small amount of time to it!

please , I need support Flash player for Solaris x86 !!!

delfinakiaelladas@yahoo.gr

We use Solaris X86 on many (true) application servers and would like to have a player to go with Netscape 7 for x86.

We use Solaris x86 in one of our computer labs (~30 machines). Unfortunately we are missing a shockware plugin for this machines.

is macromedia losing market share? =) demonstrate the contrary

Hi MicroMedia, Why your development team lost thinking to power up Flash in Solaris X86 ? For a sake of your business, let it go pls.

Solaris x86 is a great OS, please support it ! Thanks

please supply intel solaris flash plugin for netscape (it's a trivial recompile surely?)

Please support this wonderfull OS

Please add support for the flash plugin for Solaris x86, this is a mainstream OS that has awide acceptance as a desktop system for software developers Thanks, Ronnie

I cant see my Web site www.softrain.com.ve on Solaris 8 X86. Can you do something about this?

Hey, does anybody thinks about x86 Solaris users? Is it possible that M$win has better suspport? Bl**dy WEB designers use flash too much...

I want to use it!

okay

Rumore has it that something is in the works for Solaris X86. Can you confirm or deny?

Macromedia Flash Plugin

Please port Shockwave to Solaris x86. Otherwise, we'll have to write one ourself.

Please port Shockwave to Solaris x86. Otherwise, we'll have to write one ourself.

Please, please, please add support for Flash on Solaris X86! Flash is powerful tool, and so it SolarisX86! Thanks, Rick

Looking forward to have a port of ShockWave for Solaris x86. Many thanks stefan

i regularly use a x86 with solaris...and the lack of flash plugins for solaris(on x86) is really irrrrrrrrrritating! With Sun introducing new x86 based hardware, i think that a flash upgrade is a must. Unix machines are no longer used for just intensive for mathematical calculations -Chinmay Dhodapkar An irritated user.

Our school has about 1000 students accessing our 15 PCs running Solaris/x86, and it guess it would be nice to have a Flash plugin there esp. as teaching software (as support for web based education) which demands flash is coming more and more. - Hubert

please, give us that

Please support Solaris x86!

Please support Solaris x86!

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Hey - there are Solaris x86 users out there! If Sun released Solaris 9 x86, then there must have been users. Just release Flash Player 6 for Solaris x86! Even if it's unsupported, it'd be much appreciated. :)

Why beg Macromedia idiots any more. Let's do it ourselves. Flash Plugin for Netscape, Solaris Intelx86.

To MacroMedia: Please give us the source code so we can compile the .so libs ourselves for Sol Intel. If you are too lazy, we are NOT ! To not support Intel is to not like Volkswagens !

I want to USE SHOKWAVE on my i386 Solaris Systems. Please compile it quickley !!!! It can not be a problem to to this?!!

we would like to use netscape with flash plugin.

With quickness! Especially with the advent of new x86 hardware from Sun...

With quickness! Especially with the advent of new x86 hardware from Sun...

Me encanta como funciona Solaris para Intel ..... que no sean mala onda los de Macromedia y compilen el flash player

just more one to ask for ...

makers of the flash pluggin, please support solaris x86. All it requires is a recompile from the sparc version(or so I'm told) I'm sure their are many people willing to do this for you. I wouldn't say anything only that some of us students can't yet afford a sun blade 100. sorry for any bother.

makers of the flash pluggin, please support solaris x86. All it requires is a recompile from the sparc version(or so I'm told) I'm sure their are many people willing to do this for you. I wouldn't say anything only that some of us students can't yet afford a sun blade 100. sorry for any bother.

makers of the flash pluggin, please support solaris x86. All it requires is a recompile from the sparc version(or so I'm told) I'm sure their are many people willing to do this for you. I wouldn't say anything only that some of us students can't yet afford a sun blade 100. sorry for any bother.

come on macromedia give me a break... it's not so hard to do it?.. compile with -I386 and you are done! ;) come hurry up... cya u guys

I want it now. *nixx-suxx! be happy,boyz))

There're already so many comments. I guess i don't need to say more. But i still don't understand what's stopping 'em from getting out a binary for Solx86.

htlm

I am only 11 so if anything goes wrong it's my fault and all I want to do is to play games please just please give me one and thank you for every thing!!!!!

Well, I really think you guys are limiting the marketability and distribution of your product by not having a version of shockwave for Solaris - intel versions. Lee

can you please port flash to solaris x86. you already support it on sparc architectures and since the solaris OS provides a common architecture how hard could it be? if you could also support OSS's sound API that would be good too!

please let this go through so i could get shockwace

please let this go through so i could get shokwace

Actually exists two worlds, SPARC and x86. Both are powerful, but neverless without equity. I'd appreciate your effort in porting Shockwave to x86.

Just only support solarisx86, please

i can't justify a single user solaris sparc system, but a single user solarisx86 system is easy. i need to use solaris because of the solaris servers i have to support. is it that difficult to setup a solarisx86 system with free os and free gcc and create a shockwave for solarisx86?

Solaris IA Shockwave would be much appreciated!!

Get Flash compiled for Solaris x86 NOW. Let us choose which $%$#%^$^%$* OS we want to run. Open Standards, Open Source and Open Minds

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You guys have the source for Shockwave on Solaris Sparc. It really can't be that hard to port it to Solaris Intel, unless there is a bunch of Sparc specific assembly code in your product. Whats the deal?

Shockwave has yet to develop anything for the Solaris x86 community. I most certainly need to see it cause all the NT WebMaster keep puting on Shockwave all the time.

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WTF

There's a version for Solaris Sparc, there's a version for intel linux, a fairly straightforward port ???

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Solaris is available on x86 platforms too!!!

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There are workarounds for issues like this - i.e. browser plugins only being available for certain o/s 's.

I am aware of similarities in the areas of the ELF environments between Linux & Solaris. I have offered to compile source code for plugins, for Solaris x86 & have received no reply.

Firstly - I really would like a reply, even if only a corporate brush-off.
Secondly - Is it really, really, necessary to keep any legal proceedings completely secret [ please see first point!]

I know that eventually someone's patience will crack and a freeware plugin will appear - this is in part due to the huge success that Macromedia's plugin technology is enjoying.

Bravo! Good technology really brings a smile to my face - but please look at the bigger picture - if it's free for other O/S's then the users of alternative O/S's are going to want that too.

Best Regards

Alex...

With all respect, recognition of the need for a Solaris x86 version of Shockwave is long overdue. Indeed, it's more likely to have more widespread use on the x86 platform than on the Sparc as the latter used for strictly server purposes. Given the portability between the Sparc and x86 implementations of Solaris, there's not THAT much work involved. So let's get to it, shall we? Thanks in advance.

It's really bad without a Flash Player for Solaris IA. Why not just compile it?

Please consider recompiling the already existing port to Solaris/X86 There is little reason not to. Besides, Solaris/X86 is a great OS, so there is little reason not to have a box with it in any self-respecting IT shop (You are one, arent you?). thanks. Roberto de Iriarte

My company uses ShockWave (We own Flash, Director, etc) for our web site. We also support Solaris-X86 for our software platform. It would be nice if you did also.

Hi, Folks. I am one of the literally millions of Solaris X86 users who want ShockWave for Solaris 8 X86, and of course can't find it, because you have never released such a product. If you are not aware of the current number of Solaris X86 users, why not contact Sun and verify it? But I know that there are over 1 million verified users of Solaris X86 on the various Intel processors. Please don't ignore this market any longer. We are constantly reminded that we don't have ShockWave when we visit a site that uses it, and netscape tells us it can't find the correct plug-in. It's very frustrating. If you have no resources available to build a release from the existing Sparc code, I would be glad to sign a non-disclosure, and build it for you. I have a couple of Solaris X86 systems here running Solaris 8 X86, and I have the Sun C and C++ compilers for the Intel platforms. It's a trivial task to recompile the Sparc code for the X86 platform, and could probably be done in just a few hours at the most, unless you have endian issues that have to be resolved. If you do have resource for this, but just don't have a machine setup for the environment, let me know and I will arrange for a loaner machine to be delivered to you, along with the compilers and whatever other tools you might need. Come on, Folks. Sun has publicly stated that they will be supporting Solaris X86 into the foreseeable future. This platform is not going to go away, and has become very popular since Sun allowed free access to the OS. I believe that in just the last year, over 1 million additional users have joined the existing Solaris X86 market. Please address this issue now. Regards, -Carl Erhorn, Mountainview Software

Dear Flash customer, Thank you for e-mailing wish-flash. This is an automatic confirmation that we received your message. We normally do not send personal replies to wish-flash e-mail. We do, however, read each and every message. We use the information to improve our products and services. Your comments, feature requests, and bug reports are very important to us. If you need Technical Support, please visit: http://www.macromedia.com/support For Customer Service, please visit: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/customer_service/ If you would like to purchase Flash, please visit our web site at: http://www.macromedia.com/buy/ Again, thank you. The Flash Team

Flash on Solaris x86? You have about a million Solaris 8 x86 users who're very pissed off because you won't provide a Netscape plugin. Why? It's a simple recompile of the Solaris Sparc source. Fix it or become roadkill on the internet. Authorware: I've got training materials that require the use of this plugin, Yet I can`t use them on Solaris (SPARC or x86), why is that? Fix this disparity! Please, rectify this asap!

I have Solaris X86 desktop at my work it works just great! pity to not have Flash player :-(

First of all, if linux has a plugin, then, there is a bias in the business. There are plenty of SolarisX86 users who utilize this powerful and efficient operating system for their personal as well as their professional needs. This should be a business justification for writing a Flash plugin for SolarisX86. Well, if you want one, I will give you one. I am member of a lot of websites that utilize flash: 1.egreetings.com 2.RR.com 3.LAUNCH.com As well as my clients and professional business prospects that use flash, which I cannot view, because my Solaris operating system (Intel), has been discriminated, unfairly. I will write to these websites explaining that they are losing plenty of clientele, who would be more than happy to support their business, but since there is fixed idea that no one will notice this partiality, will cost more than you think.

It would be great if Macromedia Flash plugins were available for the Solaris Intel (x86) platform.

Is anybody at macromedia ever going to respond to such posts as the last??? Rants like teh last have some meaning. Not to mention there are over 1 million copies of Solaris X86 downloaded.

Sigh. According to Sun, Solaris is the #1 unix platform. According to Macromedia (I bet!), Flash is the #1 web animation tool. According to Intel, x86 is the #1 architecture. But can you run the #1 on the #1 on the #1? No. If recompiling this is too hard for Macromedia, perhaps they could send me the source code, and I'll do it for them!

Some well-known headhunters seems to have an interesting opportunity but its site requires flash...

What is the matter with you guys, all you have to do is recompile for solaris X86. If you want adoption have flash available for X86 solaris. Thanks.

Having solaris sparc at work and solaris x86 at home, I'd want to see pages with flash wherever I am in a moment. Now, I can do it only at work. wouldn't that be a good idea to release x86 version of player? Currently I use linux version but that' a crap, very unstable with that linux_emul.so library =/

Please make an Intel Solaris (8) version. Thank you. Nick

Only do or do not, there is no try. And boy, Marcomedia aren't trying at all, are they? P.

Not having Flash on my laptop in the field is miserable. It also keeps others from making the jump to Solaris x86 from Linux because the bells and whistles they are accustomed to aren't yet supported on a new platform.

- Well, my reason is simple. If I my system does not talk to me, I get very sad. And you guys at Micromedia are not helping me/us at all. What would it take for you to release an Sx86 port? I mean, you've been offered help from all kind of resources to make this a dream come true. Are you dreamless, are you not sleeping due to the pressure of not knowing how to compile an Sx86 port? I don't think so. I believe in you guys. Make me happy. Make us happy. -

what is teh linux_emul.so file and where would I get it?

It is no longer an option!
Critical information is being distributed in various forms including Flash. The world has suddenly become an unsafe place and things we need to know are buried behind Flash presentations.

This is going to lead to class action law suits forcing vendors to provide software for all platforms or require authors to use only ubiquitous methods to distribute critical information.

Which ever, it's time to take this to court.

dp

I figured it out. Sun wants to go out of business. Macromedia wants to support only crappy animation. OK, so I will tell every company I consult to use only Linux. I have to teach Solaris on Linux machines because their traing uses Flash presentations. I refuse to teach M.S. NT based products because I feel a stable free OS is better than an unreliable exspensive OS. Yeaah I could make more money, but I don't have to feel like a thief. Of course it sounds like Russia is the place for computing freedom now-a-days...

well maybe Sun could a move too .... Or is Solaris x86 really dead?

Shockwave for X86 Solaris, hmm yea that would be a nice addition. Well, yea that would actually be a really good idea, seeing that something like a million folks have taken the time to download and install the OS, not to mention those that use the OS on a corprate level. This , well its a just another example of a large company being foolish. I mean hell if I were like, really really stupid, I would shoot myself in the foot with a 12 Guage Shotgun too!

I'm a Cisco instructor and Sun is sponsoring Unix training but it seems I'll have to teach it on Linux machines. I am supposed to teach a Sun sponsored course for Solaris 8 yet the course materials won't work on it. I'm anti Microsoft, but these folks ask to get put out of business (ie; Cisco ans Sun)

We do need it!

Yeah WE NEED IT!!!

I got an official e-mail from the Macromedia Flash saying they ain't going to support x86.
Bastards !!!

It is twice frustrating : it doesn't exist for Solaris X86 and it is not really clear that the downloaded files are for Sparc ! -- Fabienne

It should be more or less a simple re-compile for macromedia. I can't see why the x86 version isi not available.

What shell I say? I need it.

frustration outrage sadness

saddest one I've had recently is the soltek mainboard page, no shockwave, no navigation. how many copies of X86 solaris are out there??? 200 000 or so? come on macromedia, grow a brain, it's only a library make

ditto

It is getting real tiresome having all these web site pop-ups in my face about downloading this plug-in. Your bug report form even has Solaris x86 on it for reporting problems! I let every webmaster know that I can't view their pages because the plug-in is not available. Hopefully they will choose someone that does support Solaris x86 when they redesign their web site. Mike

Where is the Shockwave plugin for X86 Solaris? Those pop-ups which say to get it are real annoying. I've had to complain to all of the content providers who require it!

Sorry... been busy. I too am tired of x86 being treated like Sun's stepchild. It's a strong, reliable, smooth alternative to the other flavors of *nix, and it makes my management overhead SO small to run both sparc and x86, instead of having to resort to another flavor for the x86 boxes. Why can't the software developers see this and take the, IMHO, small amount of time to recompile their plugins/apps/etc. for Solaris x86?!!!

This section is growing. More people installs this operating system at home insted of Linux. I got 3 X86 solaris installation runing at home. Do something about this, please. /Johan

There is a plugin for Solaris SPARC but why not for Solaris x86.

Come on its no work to do this. Please get your acts together and sort this out - you would think that today people owuld not still be trying to dictate what platforms the end-user has to use to view their content, particularly when there is no effort required to do the port (if recompiling Sparc ode can really be considerd a port!).

I just wanna say...PLEASE! all the Solx86 community need the plugin for shockwave. (or will the hackerz have to steal the source code from your servers and compile it themselves???:-)) Thanx.

Please consider the Solaris on X86 platform a much needed plugin. Since you already compile for Sparc, there is no reason not to compile for X86. If you don't have a system, ask SUN for a loaner. If they will not help, I will send you mine, or arrange for a loaner for you. Don't ignore the posts, there is no room to wiggle here. We'll loan you a system with a Forte compiler installed, or arrange for one from SUN. It's rediculous not to support this platform. Give me (or anyone here) just one good reason not to. I really doubt that you could, so stop putting it off, and just do it. Want help? We'll get it for you. No excuses now, so please just do it! --Carl

There are too many sites that require Shockwave, and it is very frustrating having it available for sparc but not x86.

--- Pleaze --- I need that player!

This is really unacceptable. If you offer software for all platforms you will help out the whole community.

Is it true, that you at Macromedia are simply not smart enough to port Shockwave to Solaris x86 ? No, I don't think so, but on the other hand - why is there only a SPARC version ? ;-)

A official Flash-player for Solaris/x86 is important for all the users of this operating system that wants a good support for that important part of Internet called WWW.

Hi there! How come you haven't compiled Falsh for Solaris on Intel yet! I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks! Johan W

would be appriciated if you recompile for Solaris_x86

Come on MacroMedia, you claim that 80% of all browsers are now Flash-enabled; What kind of a company can afford to ignore 20% of its potential market? YOU NEED TO MAKE FLASH AVAILABLE TO EVERYBODY!!!!!!

Please..(--);;
It's all. (^_^)

Please compile for Solaris x86. (Or let me do it for you!) Everything I have tried compiled with no problems from SPARC to Intel.

Please produce a shockwave pulgin for Solaris x86. You have a SPARC so all you will need to do is recompile on Solaris for Intel.

Browsing certain websites becomes really hindered by all these "download shockwave plugin" boxes poping up on every other page. Annoying. Please, Macromedia, give us that plugin for solaris x86. It really insn't that hard to recompile it when you already have a solaris sparc port and intel x86 (linux) support!

With nearly a million copies of x86 Solaris 8 downloaded in the recent past, plus all the copies obtained on CD, Solaris on Intel is not a trivial percentage of the total Solaris universe. A significant portion of the Sparc systems are servers that never are used with browsers. Yet Shockwave is available for Sparc Solaris and not for Intel Solaris where it would be of greatest benefit, for individuals browsing the net on their own systems running Solaris. It makes not sense to me!

We realy need this!

Shockwave on Solaris x86 -- Just Say Yes !

It would be COOL!

From the email address, you can see where I come from. What on earth makes it so difficult to make shockwave available to Solx86? I am sure someone in the Solx86 community (including me), will be willing to sign the NDA, donate the time to port the damn thing, and return it to Macromedia for downloading as, let say, an unsupported product.

Loosing out on everything, making the net incompatible with solaris. Macromedia... Suggestion go out and give the source to sun to compile directly into their release of netscape or into the system directly. Problem solved. Otherwise ... GIMME GIMME GIMME the source and I will compile myself.

Give me the plugin for Sx86, $%§*$§%/"§$ ! (mk)

Appaling! Appaling! Shame Macromedia! You assume that all X86 *nix is Linux? How dammn hard is it to recompile the code for Solaris/Sparc to Solaris/X86 ?? or how hard is it to move the code from Linux to FreeBSD!!!!! Flash is universal my ass! GIVE US SOLARIS/X86 FLASH PLUGIN OR THE SOURCE! NOW!

It is really ashame that I have to fork out Money to buy a WinDOZE BOX just to support web site that I have to do flash with. It also sucks because I see LINUX getting all the work done for theres and NOT Solaris. Tell me why is it SO DAMN F*#$& hard to port the sparc version to the intel version of Solaris. BTW, 95% of the code is compatible to that of Sparc in the OS. So transistion should be that damn difficult. I love my solaris box and I won't trade it for Bill Gates Dream world for what it is worth. So do the damn port.

We really need it! The Solaris community has actually grown a lot lately (factor 3-4). Partly because Sun released Solaris Intel for free and that it can be downloaded over the internet

I'm sick of going to Macromedia for no good reason. I need the plugin so I can stop seeing the bloody netscape plugin download page which does not exist for Solaris x86.
IF there are other parties we need to put pressure on to make this happen please let us know, and we will attempt it!

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