(Wine does not work on PowerPC and may not work as expected on 64-bit PCs.) You can then use mozplugger, a program that lets you 'embed' other programs in your web browser.įirst, install the wine and mozplugger packages (for information on how to do this, see InstallingSoftware). On a PC, it may be possible to run Shockwave under Ubuntu using Wine and running the Windows versions of Firefox and the Shockwave player. Unfortunately, the Shockwave player is only available for Windows. Today, Shockwave is most commonly used for Internet games. Designed by Macromedia in the mid 1990s, it was followed by Shockwave Flash (or just Flash), a simpler format which became far more popular.