C'mon, Adobe. Open source it.
Hah! They have let Flash die rather than open source it.
Also, it might compete with Adobe Animate.
"Service as a Software Substitute"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
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#12So he created his own flash player. Couldnt someone use WASM to run a flash player in the browser? Without the original flash security risks.
Like the sibling comment says, while there are alternative flash players, they are either unmaintained (Shumway since 2016) or not feature complete yet (Ruffle). Since performance was stated as the main goal, a bespoke solution that only supports what the games actually use is probably the best performing.
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#13[flagged]
Creatives: look at this beautiful chalice made of Roman dichroic glass.
Security people: %drops it on the ground and it shatters% yes but glass is terribly insecure, why not redo it with PVC and LEF strip Christmas lights.
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#14Hey HN, I haven't done a lot of technical postmortem blogpost-style writing so I'd welcome any feedback or tips on how to improve. Is it too long, too short, too technical, not technical enough? Boring? Interesting? Is it enlightening or does it just come off like content marketing? I literally have no idea how good I am at this.
Keep on writing!
I enjoyed reading what you tried and why you ended up with what you did.
It is fine to mention your game, I do not consider that content marketing at all.
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#15Hey HN, I haven't done a lot of technical postmortem blogpost-style writing so I'd welcome any feedback or tips on how to improve. Is it too long, too short, too technical, not technical enough? Boring? Interesting? Is it enlightening or does it just come off like content marketing? I literally have no idea how good I am at this.
I don't think anyone here is going to complain about a post where you make a game work by reverse engineering Bezier splines encoded in XML by Adobe Flash.
If that's not "Hacker" News, what is?
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#16I was expecting the graphics to be converted first to SVG.
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#17I really enjoyed this, thanks for writing the article. Just the idea of bits of Actionscript on Frames and figuring that out would have made me quit never mind everything else. I miss Flash. I used to love the Flex Builder/SWC setup as I used to be really productive with it.
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#18I still haven't seen anything beat Flash with its sweet 1-2 combo of vector drawing, animation and programming tool Or maybe it's just me reminiscing
The Flash Builder was really good for complex vector manipulation. I don't know if there is anything as good for SVG/HTML.
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#19I wish Flash would just be fully open-sourced for niche users to maintain and use it AS IS. I know it supposedly has a lot of vulnerabilities but there are use cases where the pros matter more and this con doesn't matter too much.
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#20It was pretty interesting to read how they chose .asm text files for encoding of animations.