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Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by rchaud »

Snitch-Thursday wrote: post #200

i wish i could buy a perpetual license of Adobe Animate, any version that can take actionscript and such and compile it to an HTML5 video. I don't know if those HTML5 things still count as Rich internet applications (interactive? idk), but there is definitely a void left behind in terms of ease of content creation that lives on the web, at least not without 5 billion npm packages and JS frameworks.

I was looking for the same thing, and definitely did not want to pay monthly. The best alternative I found was Tumult Hype. $50 flat I believe, plus a pro version for another $50 that includes SVG animation tools. It's a GUI based approach to CSS3 and JS animations. Exports to HTML or MP4.

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Post by textfiles »

demurgos wrote: post #173

Congratulations to the Ruffle team! I maintain Open-Flash [1], another project around maintaining Flash. It was started following the discontinuation of Mozilla's Shumway emulator. I wanted to write a Node.js program to parse and merge SWF files. I hoped to import Shumway's parser and reuse it for my own project but it turned out that Shumway wasn't modular enough. This prompted me to write my own parsers and emitter…

We need a library of flash support that can be integrated into players and browsers easily.

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Post by EamonnMR »

This is awesome news. Exactly the type of thing they're great at, for exactly the right technology, just as it's reaching EOL. I was worried the IA folks where too in love with with the early PC era to care about the end of the PC era, but apparently that worry was unfounded.

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Post by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA »

Mizza wrote: post #180
aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA wrote: post #152

In a certain sense, I created the very first Flash animation. I was working at Macromedia and happened to be in the office earlier than usual that morning. Our SVP came to my boss and said basically “We bought Futurewave, we’re announcing it today, and we’re renaming FutureSplash to Shockwave Flash. I need somebody to throw a quick animation together for the press gathering, and none of the creative services people a…

This is wonderful, thanks for sharing. Any chance you've got a copy of that on an old hard drive somewhere? I bet the IA folks would love to highlight that.

No, unfortunately. In retrospect I wish I’d kept all of the multimedia projects I made at that job.

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Post by EamonnMR »

daniel-s wrote: post #199
echelon wrote: post #83

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> Flash as a technology should never be used now unless for artistic purposes. Nothing filled the gap left by Flash. It was easy, accessible, and drew so many young people to create. Flash had security issues, but they could have been fixed. Macromedia and/or Adobe could (and should) have published an open source standard and realized their tooling would always be ahead of the game. They didn't see the incredible opp…

What replaced flash? Was it SVG + JavaScript?

Video replaced flash movies and nothing replaced flash games, there's just a hole.

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Post by saagarjha »

kencausey wrote: post #203
saagarjha wrote: post #194

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Realm of the Mad God requires a server to run, doesn't it? It might be difficult to preserve…

Are you talking about preserving an earlier version of the game? It continues to be developed and is available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/200210/Realm_of_the_Mad_G...

Yeah, the original version which was written in Flash.

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Post by pcf »

echelon wrote: post #154
adrianN wrote: post #150

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"Content creators" almost universally only make significant money when the content they create are ads or porn. It's also about as viable a career choice as "becoming a pop star" was a while ago.

I sponsor a couple of folks on Patreon and Github, and none of them create porn. I think there's a future where long tail art can be funded on an artisanal level by patrons, and the network will connect consumers to artists that satisfy their interests. Are you interested in an alternate history Oregon Trail where an alien invasion forces westward migration? Or perhaps a time travelling Jacques Cousteau serial where…

> I sponsor a couple of folks on Patreon and Github, and none of them create porn.

...that you know about. :)

Re: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

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Post by xedeon »

kossae wrote: post #208
xedeon wrote: post #121

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"The website went back up last night: http://2advanced.com for a final 6 weeks until Flash vanishes!" Source: https://twitter.com/fwa/status/1327665766213316608 I managed to grab a local copy. Let me know if you want it.

That would be awesome! Thanks for the heads up. My username at gmail if you get a chance to send it. Thanks again!

Emailed you a copy. Cheers!
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