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System requirements for Flash authoring

The following hardware and software are required to author Flash movies:

| For Microsoft® Windows: An Intel Pentium 200 MHz or equivalent processor running Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP; 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended); 85 MB of available disk space; a 16-bit color monitor capable of 1024 x 768 resolution; and a CD-ROM drive.
| For the Macintosh: A Power Macintosh running Mac OS 9.1 (or later) or Mac OS X version 10.1 (or later); 64 MB RAM free application memory (128 MB recommended), plus 85 MB of available disk space; a color monitor capable of displaying 16-bit (thousands of colors) at 1024 x 768 resolution; and a CD-ROM drive.