A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

I'm excited for this; flash is still wholly unmatched as an artistic expression tool. HTML5 and WebAssembly can, obviously, provide the technical chops; but we've never recovered the experience of a novice Flash user who, with no prior domain experience, could realize an inspired prototype game or entertaining animation in less than an hour.

The tool was just that accessible, and the community that good.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#5

Post by pjmlp » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 6:30 AM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #3

but if it's written in Rust are they going to be able to emulate the security holes so you get the full experience?

If they target WebAssembly most likely,

"USENIX Security '20 - Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glL__xjviro

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#6

Post by nynx » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 6:32 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #5

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #3

but if it's written in Rust are they going to be able to emulate the security holes so you get the full experience?

If they target WebAssembly most likely, "USENIX Security '20 - Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glL__xjviro

lmao, only if you write something other than rust

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#7

Post by daypay » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 6:33 AM UTC

Can't wait to play Runescape in the browser again.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#8

Post by McDev » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 6:34 AM UTC

daypay wrote: post #7

Can't wait to play Runescape in the browser again.

That runs on Java unfortunately

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#9

Post by fulafel » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 6:36 AM UTC

nynx wrote: post #6

pjmlp wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they target WebAssembly most likely, "USENIX Security '20 - Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glL__xjviro

lmao, only if you write something other than rust

There's a lot of unsafe usage in this codebase (https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/search?q=unsafe returns 5 screenfuls) - though I don't know enough about Rust to tell how risky these are.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#10

Post by systemvoltage » Fri, Feb 05, 2021, 6:37 AM UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orisinal

Can we revive Orisinal? I used to spend hours on their games: https://wsa-global.org/winner/orisinal/