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A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by jtwaleson »

smcl wrote: post #47
jtwaleson wrote: post #20

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

I was just having fun when I wrote it. Just saw his twitter feed... wow...

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by nevi-me »

Our Revenue Services got caught out with the Flash EOL. Their solution was to provide an Electron-based web browser, to much embarassment from those who could peek under the hood to see.

It looks like they decided to bundle an older Chromium version that still supports Flash.

I wonder if ruffle could have saved the embarassment, and worked as a safer stop-gap measure.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by IshKebab »

ink_13 wrote: post #11

I first heard about this project when it saved homestarrunner.com from the dead. I'm glad it exists, there's a lot of 2000's-era web history wrapped up in Flash.

Homestarrunner was mostly not interactive so they could have just converted everything to video (I bet it is on YouTube already).

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by jtwaleson »

jtwaleson wrote: post #51
smcl wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I was just having fun when I wrote it. Just saw his twitter feed... wow...

To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by smcl »

jtwaleson wrote: post #54
jtwaleson wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just having fun when I wrote it. Just saw his twitter feed... wow...

To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.

I think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by [deleted] »

danShumway wrote: post #32
jayd16 wrote: post #23

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Whats missing from modern tools?

It's a combination of a lot of things. In theory, Adobe Animate still exists today, but it's wildly inaccessible both because of cost and its proprietary nature. There's also complications based on how PWA get deployed to mobile, etc... But ignoring all of that, here's a quick list of (some) categories of things I still miss from Flash: - nested animations/clips: The recursive nature of Flash made making animations v…

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Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by HeckFeck »

coldtea wrote: post #38
danbolt wrote: post #25

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I don’t think anything feature-wise is missing on the runtime side, but Flash’s keyframe/editor setup just let people make the most amazing things.

Isn't Adobe Animate the same thing, keyframes and everything, just with html output?

It's probably harder to pirate now.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by schwartzworld »

Vespasian wrote: post #55

Great project! To be honest I'm slightly annoyed whenever a github submission mentions the programming language for no specific reason. Rust is a great tool but it doesn't matter unless you want to participate in this project.

Of course it matters even if YOU don't want to participate. The techy types that frequent here may actually want to contribute, or be interested in how the code was implemented as a learning resource.

Additionally, there are biased for and against programming languages, and I guarantee that there is a whole set of people on HN that would be interested in this project because it is a language they like. Rust means you can run this software almost anywhere and it's going to be easy to install.

Re: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

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Post by skrebbel »

dleslie wrote: 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.

Agree! It's not just unmatched on the web, for many purposes it's unmatched across the board.

I remember reading that the English cartoon Duggee (which also happens to be my favourite children's show by far) is 100% animated in Flash. Get this, it's a professional, prime time, internationally syndicated TV show and they use Flash because it let's the animators be more productive than anything else.

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