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Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by Zelphyr »

I'm glad to see The Internet Archive doing this. There's a flash animation I used to enjoy back around 2000 and I have been looking for it for almost as long. It was basically a showcase animation sequence done by what I think was a Japanese designer. I don't remember the full sequence but it was an anime style animation and at the end was a girl standing on a cliff with her hair blowing in the wind.

I'm really hoping it will end up on The Internet Archive. I sure would like to see it again. It was very beautiful.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by IsopropylMalbec »

grishka wrote: post #48
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.

You are not the first person I have met with that exact same sentiment.

It feels like there is a desire for the same hacky frontend yet no one wants to invest.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by holler »

Aardwolf wrote: post #11

Newgrounds is also doing a good job of making many of even their interactive Flash animations compatible with modern browsers, which is great! I hope they'll be able to extend this to the games too

oh wow, Newgrounds, haven't heard that name in awhile but so many memories watching videos on there. "Tupac you ate my cheetohs!"

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by holler »

Back in the day http://eye4u.com had by far the most amazing flash animations of any site I'd seen. I don't know how they did it but their animations were next level for that time period.

Apparently some of them are on youtube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aT4wt0fmGU

https://web.archive.org/web/20041126020223/http://eye4u.com/

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by db48x »

roca wrote: post #44
textfiles wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As a counter example, VLC does support the Java-based menus of BluRay discs if you have Java and so on available.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by pixelrevision »

holler wrote: post #55

Back in the day http://eye4u.com had by far the most amazing flash animations of any site I'd seen. I don't know how they did it but their animations were next level for that time period. Apparently some of them are on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aT4wt0fmGU https://web.archive.org/web/20041126020223/http://eye4u.com/

Praystation a couple years later was also fantastic

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by pixelrevision »

grishka wrote: post #48
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.

Unity is pretty damn close

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by numbsafari »

Google234 wrote: post #54

What’s with the criticism of Steve Jobs letter? Apple was completely right.

Yeah, Adobe's failure to keep Flash relevant is the problem. Not Steve Jobs. It's not like they didn't try to work with Adobe.

Adobe just couldn't get it done.

This is what disruption is like. It's great that we have orgs like IA doing the work to keep this old content alive and accessible, and a platform like the Web that can grow and adapt over time.

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by grishka »

pixelrevision wrote: post #58
grishka wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Unity is pretty damn close

Point is... Are there any Unity memes? Haven't seen any :D
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