Macromedia Flash

We know Adobe bought Macromedia awhile ago, but I personally miss the Macromedia brand. I miss the Macromedia logo when opening up Flash 5 back in the day and wish sometimes that Macromedia never sold it off. Adobe Flash never truly never rang for me and to me the new Flash software just seems to be a big resource hog, same with it’s own Photoshop. Anyway in the spirit of Macromedia, we are going to give you some Macromedia resources. Here’s to living in the past.

Macromedia Flash Screen

Ah, yes…remember the old startup screen for Macromedia Flash 5? Heck, I bet alot of you remember Flash Animator to Flash 3. Guess I have been feeling a bit nostalgic lately so maybe, just maybe I’ll find my old copy of Flash 5 and install it, lol. I also remember not being any good at Flash at the time so this was the first Flash program I have picked up. Flash 5 is my 2nd favorite version of Macromedia Flash, my all time favorite version is Flash MX.

We have a pretty good collection of Macromedia Flash templates in various categories, we also added new templates in our e-commerce section. Oh yeah, for anybody wanting to install Macromedia Flash 5, don’t do it. Even though it’s a rock solid stable, but the output SWF files would have issues with the current Flash 8 and 9 players.

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Macromedia Flash History

- Macromedia Flash 2(1997) Features: Support of stereo sound (finally), enhanced bitmap integration, buttons, the Library,  and tween color changes, but could not yet handle shape tweening.

  
- Macromedia Flash 3(1998) Features: Brought improvements to animation, playback, and publishing, as well as the introduction of simple script commands for interactivity. As of - 2008, Macromedia has shipped 100,000 Flash products.
- Macromedia Flash 4(1999) Features: Achieved 100 million installations of the Flash Player, thanks in part to its inclusion with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. Flash 4 saw the introduction of streaming MP3s and the Motion Tween. Initially, the Flash Player plug-in was not bundled with popular web browsers and users had to visit Macromedia website to download it; As of 2000, however, the Flash Player was already being distributed with all AOL, Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers. Two years later it shipped with all releases of Windows XP. The install-base of the Flash Player reached 92 percent of all Internet users.
- Macromedia Flash 5(2001) Features: Flash 5 was a major leap forward in capability, with the evolution of Flash’s scripting capabilities as released as ActionScript. Flash 5 also saw the ability to customize the authoring environment’s interface

(Source - Wikipedia)

After this came Flash MX which introduced suppport for Video and shared libraries.

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