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Credits
©1997-2012, Active Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Please click
here
for full terms of use and restrictions or read our Light Tower
Privacy
Statement.
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Product:
Macromedia Flash 4
Company: Macromedia
Website: http://www.macromedia.com
Estimated Street Price: Full Version $299.00 (Reviewed) - Upgrade
$129.00
Review By: William Sossamon
Final Results and
Overall Mark
Well we have reached the end of the
review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Macromedia Flash
4.
Final Comments
| How
It Grades |
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Installation: 90%
Manual: 94%
Features: 96%
Image Quality: 91%
Ease Of Use: 86%
Cost: 91%
Overall: 91%
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Overall I'd say Flash 4 is an amazing product. You
get lots from it. Super small files with amazing graphical
capabilities. But is it worth the $299 price tag? Well I can
definitely tell you that from experimenting with Flash ever since version
1 that the things you can create with Flash will blow anyone away if you
use it effectively. Web sites that I've made with Flash make others
that were made without Flash so boring.
Now if you're a newbie at all this I'd say give it some
time before investing $299 in something you're not familiar with and make
sure that web authoring is something that you wont forget about in a week
and move on. But if you're serious about making high quality web
sites with great content, then Flash is a must!
| Specs
& Package |
| Overall
Score |
91% |
| Version
Reviewed |
Macromedia
Flash 4 |
| Release
Date |
Out
Now |
| In
The Box? |
- Flash 4 CD (PC)
- Flash 4 CD (MAC)
- Manual
- Registration Card
|
| The
Good Points |
Small
Files
Superb Animation
|
| The
Bad Points |
Price
May Be Confusing to First Timers |
| Reviewers
PC Setup |
Pentium
II 450
Windows 98 Second Edition
128 Meg SD-Ram
Voodoo 2 - 8mb
DirectX 7 Gold
SoundBlaster Live! Value
17" LG Electronics Monitor
Matrox G400 32MB AGP Graphics Card |
| PC
Required |
Pentium®
or faster Intel® processor
Windows® 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT® 4.0 or later, PowerMac
32MB of RAM
256-color (8-bit) display adapter (24-bit recommended)
CD-ROM Drive
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