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Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Ok, funny story about ruffle: Years ago in 2012 some co-workers stumbled on the greatest website ever: http://www.novalight.net/NOVALIGHT.html (takes a while to load now) To prove that HTML5/CSS3 was finally ready, I started a side project to recreate it in JS: https://github.com/jtwaleson/NovaLight-Challenge . I never got far and I don't know if that means I never finish side projects or if Flash is officially super…

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Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#42

Ok, funny story about ruffle: Years ago in 2012 some co-workers stumbled on the greatest website ever: http://www.novalight.net/NOVALIGHT.html (takes a while to load now) To prove that HTML5/CSS3 was finally ready, I started a side project to recreate it in JS: https://github.com/jtwaleson/NovaLight-Challenge . I never got far and I don't know if that means I never finish side projects or if Flash is officially super…

I couldn't stop laughing at this page, so dramatic.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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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.

Having to account for responsiveness kills a lot of creativity regardless of the tools used. Amateurs also used to hand craft unique and interesting Geocities websites but responsiveness has really hampered how easy and accessible that is.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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post #4

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.

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Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#46

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

With the Ruffle browser extension, it appears that most of the games already work (at least the random sample I checked).

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#47

Ok, funny story about ruffle: Years ago in 2012 some co-workers stumbled on the greatest website ever: http://www.novalight.net/NOVALIGHT.html (takes a while to load now) To prove that HTML5/CSS3 was finally ready, I started a side project to recreate it in JS: https://github.com/jtwaleson/NovaLight-Challenge . I never got far and I don't know if that means I never finish side projects or if Flash is officially super…

I googled Peter K Joneleit after your description of him in the README and I was curious if you were just having a bit of fun or if he was involved in defining these web standards. Hooooo boy I was not prepared for his Twitter, it is wild

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

#48
I hope this fare better than GNU Gnash.

Back in university, my friends and I had a team hacking on Gnash to try implementing an OpenGLES renderer for a class project. We never got it finished, due to the lack of documentation and our poor reading of C code.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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post #47

Ok, funny story about ruffle: Years ago in 2012 some co-workers stumbled on the greatest website ever: http://www.novalight.net/NOVALIGHT.html (takes a while to load now) To prove that HTML5/CSS3 was finally ready, I started a side project to recreate it in JS: https://github.com/jtwaleson/NovaLight-Challenge . I never got far and I don't know if that means I never finish side projects or if Flash is officially super…

I googled Peter K Joneleit after your description of him in the README and I was curious if you were just having a bit of fun or if he was involved in defining these web standards. Hooooo boy I was not prepared for his Twitter, it is wild

Wow you're not wrong about his Twitter, that was an adventure. It's so over the top I actually can't tell if it's meant to be satire.
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