What is Macromedia Flash 2?

Flash 2 (available for purchase as a sep> arate application or as part of the Design in Motion bundle) is not just another Web graphics-creation tool. With Flash 2 you can create vector-based animations, images, and Interactive buttons to spice up Web sites; vector-based images are quick to load on a Web page and retain their crisp vector quality, even when you zoom in on them. The Flash 2 installation CD ships with sample files, fonts, and ready-to-go animations, images, sounds, and buttons.

Flash’s drawing tools and features allow you to import and edit graphics or roll your own from scratch. You can import and redraw bitmapped graphics as vector art, edit them, or use them as fills. The Tweening feature takes two animation set frames, automatically calculates the changes, and creates additional frames between the original two, adjusting attributes such as color, rotation, size, and motion. Also, version 2 now supports sound, so you can synchronize sounds to specific frames and button actions.

As with many other Web special effects, viewing Flash movies requires site visitors to download and install yet another browser plug-in. A lot of people don’t mind doing that, but take into account your site’s target audience. If many have older, slower machines and modem connections, you may want to offer an alternate page free of special effects, matching the content of each regular Shockwave Flash page.

Chapman, Elyse. (June 1998). Flash 2. MacAddict. (pg. 41).

Download Macromedia Flash 2 for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5

Compatibility notes

• MC68040 or PowerPC processor
• 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended)
• System 7.5 or later

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver