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Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by jonah-archive »

Really excited about this, and so happy we were able to roll it out before Flash's official deprecation at the end of the year. If you have old SWFs you'd like to share, these are the directions for uploading them so that they'll be emulated in-browser: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Uploading_SWFs_for...

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by jchw »

krapp wrote: post #3

Using an open source Flash emulator written in Rust and exported to Webassembly[0]. [0] https://ruffle.rs/

As a sidenote, I’ve taken some brief dives into Ruffle and it looks very good. There’s great attention to detail everywhere. I hope it has a long future.

I’ve previously also taken brief dives into Lightspark and even submitted a minor PR or two. Lightspark is cool, but I feel Ruffle is already surpassing it in regards.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by sixstringtheory »

Would love to see the Larry Carlson flash animations make it onto here. I was able to track down the page where they used to live on the wayback machine [0] (some other pages under that domain would also have had some flash animations, too), but don't know how to grab the actual SWFs, if it's even possible any more.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20190803102822/http://trippywonde...

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by Causality1 »

jonah-archive wrote: post #2

Really excited about this, and so happy we were able to roll it out before Flash's official deprecation at the end of the year. If you have old SWFs you'd like to share, these are the directions for uploading them so that they'll be emulated in-browser: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Uploading_SWFs_for...

So this is real emulation, not just transcription into a video format? The vectorized and infinitely-scalable aspect of Flash is preserved? That's awesome.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by jonah-archive »

Causality1 wrote: post #7
jonah-archive wrote: post #2

Really excited about this, and so happy we were able to roll it out before Flash's official deprecation at the end of the year. If you have old SWFs you'd like to share, these are the directions for uploading them so that they'll be emulated in-browser: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Uploading_SWFs_for...

So this is real emulation, not just transcription into a video format? The vectorized and infinitely-scalable aspect of Flash is preserved? That's awesome.

Yes! See krapp's comment below -- we're using the Ruffle flash emulator targeted to WASM

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by superkuh »

What I don't understand is why google is intentionally excluding .swf results from search results. Okay, fine, you don't want it in Chrome that's your choice. But not indexing .swf in your search engine product because you don't support it in your browser product is crazy. It's going out of their way, doing more work, to hurt people.

I guess this is just another example of being unable to count on profit motivated corporations. It's a good thing the IA is trying to help.

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