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Adobe Flash Player 11
What is Flash Player?
Adobe® Flash® Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems.
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Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering*
Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level Stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps and gives framework developers classes of interactive experiences.
*Initial support for personal computers.
Native 64-bit support
Flash Player can now take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux®, Mac OS, and Windows®.
Multi-threaded video decoding
Deliver live streaming and real-time interactive video with improved playback performance and increased frame rates of high bit rate content running on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Enhanced mouse controls and relative coordinates
Create immersive, panoramic games for new classes of content, including first-person games that take advantage of infinite scrolling, mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, and right- and middle-click events.
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Flash Player and Adobe AIR blog |
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| 03/27/2012 | Game on: The new Adobe AIR 3.2 + Flash Player 11.2 |
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| 02/22/2012 | Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux |
| 02/06/2012 | Flash – Chrome for Android Beta |
| 01/19/2012 | Introducing Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 beta4 |
Flash Platform runtime releases blog |
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| 10/04/2011 | Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 Now Available |
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| 08/26/2011 | Flash Player Update Now Available |
| 08/09/2011 | Flash Player 11 Beta 2 & AIR 3 Beta 2 Now Available on Labs |
| 08/09/2011 | Updates to Flash Player & Adobe AIR Now Available |
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Frima Studio
Frima Studio brings its Zombie Tycoon game console to browsers using new capabilities in the Flash Platform to deliver astonishing 3D experiences to a vast new audience.
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