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Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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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...

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Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by hobby-coder-guy »

catmanjan wrote: post #30
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #27

Programming a shitty AS2 "catch the falling object" game with the cheesiest story and uploading it to Newgrounds got me into programming. Might never have if not for Flash.

Same here - AS2 and the flash movieclip editor had the perfect learning curve for me - I wonder what the current equivalent is, if any

Roblox or Minecraft maybe

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Post by roca »

textfiles wrote: post #39
roca wrote: post #36

What reason is there to believe that Ruffle will succeed where other Flash emulators (Shumway, Swiffy, Lightspark, ...) have (apparently) failed?

I wouldn't say Lightspark has failed at all, they're progressing nicely. Others are too. I heard a rumor Shumway was abandoned as a project by Mozilla because ex-Adobe engineers were steering the project and Adobe issued concerns; they probably could have been worked out, but you know, Mozilla. Since then, Flash has been end of life'd more aggressively, so I think Shumway could return. Flash files should be like musi…

A Flash player is a lot more like a Java virtual machine + libraries or a Web browser than it is like a video codec.

I have not heard that rumor about Shumway. As a former Mozilla distinguished engineer, I think I would have.

Thanks for pointing out Lightspark is progressing. I thought it had stalled, but I was wrong. Still, if Lightspark is doing well it's not ideal to split efforts into multiple projects.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by vr46 »

OmarShehata wrote: post #25
vr46 wrote: post #16

OMG Internet Archive take my money now, well done, and thank you. ( https://archive.org/donate/ in case anyone else is feeling generous)

You should donate to the project making this possible too! https://github.com/sponsors/Herschel

Fair. I just cloned Ruffle, too.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by textfiles »

mortenjorck wrote: post #26

The museum-docent write-ups for the featured SWFs are the perfect icing on this archival cake. I never knew there was a debate over the species of onion in Leekspin! A side note, and perhaps this is down to Safari's imperfect WASM support, but I'm not getting any sound in Safari.

Known issue and yes, because of that reason.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by grishka »

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #27

Programming a shitty AS2 "catch the falling object" game with the cheesiest story and uploading it to Newgrounds got me into programming. Might never have if not for Flash.

AS3 and VKontakte apps and games for me. Not really got me into programming, I did some J2ME before, but Flash certainly did end up shaping my life quite a lot. It's honestly a shame there's no technology currently in existence that would allow this kind of creativity, with a barrier to entry as low as Flash had.
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