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Product:
Flash 5.0
Company: Macromedia
Website: http://www.macromedia.com
Estimated Street Price: $399.00
Review By:
Julien JAY
Final Results and Overall Mark
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Table Of Contents |
Well we have reached the end of the review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Macromedia Flash 5.0.
Final Comments
| How It Grades | ||||
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Installation:
95% Performance: 90% New GUI: 90% Ease of use: 85% Features: 95% Manual: 90% Price: 85% Overall: 90% |
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With this release Macromedia confirms its undeniable
leadership in the domain of web animation creation software. Flash 5 is a
very good upgrade that every Flash 4 user will surely want to pick due to
the many enhancements it brings. Macromedia listened to its customers by
including new features they requested and frankly it’s a success! During
our tests Flash 5 showed its incredible power, which definitely convinced
us. The only regret we may formulate is that the vector drawing tools
aren’t as good as the Adobe Illustrator ones and that the software can be
unstable in some special conditions. Macromedia Flash 5 has already been
massively adopted by leading Flash developers so why wait? Order it now!
| Specs & Package | |
| Overall Score | 90% |
| Version Reviewed | Macromedia Flash 5.0 |
| Release Date | Available now! |
| In The Box? |
1 CD 1 Registration Card 1 user's guide |
| The Good Points |
Tons of new features Nice new interface New development oriented features Movie Explorer is a real 'plus'! |
| The Bad Points | No bad point, really |
| Reviewers PC Setup | Pentium
III 1 Ghz B Intel VC820 Motherboard Windows Millennium Edition 256 MB PC800 RDRAM w/ECC DirectX 8 17" Sony Trinitron Monitor Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb AGP 4x Graphics Card Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 Adaptec 19160 Ultra SCSI card Pinnacle Miro DC30+ Pinnacle Studio DV Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB Microsoft TrackBall Explorer Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro DVD Pioneer 105s (16/40x) |
| PC Required |
Minimum System |
| <-- Advanced Features |
