How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
Flash Museum
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#12How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
It is Flash files at least (https://flashmuseum.s3.amazonaws.com/htf_ep_45_out_on_a_limb... as an example)
Seems to be using the Flash Player emulator Ruffle - https://ruffle.rs/
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#13How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
> On our website, Flash content will run on your browser using the Flash Player emulator ruffle. Ruffle is an open source emulator built using the Rust programming language. It uses WebAssembly to run Flash content on modern browsers
Amazing. Is this related to efforts by archive.org to get all of their archived stuff working? (Believe they also are using Ruffle)
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#14How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
They've reverse-engineered flash and written a player compatible with modern browsers. Crazy amount of effort, but worth it.
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#15Related, the person who made classics like “Mud and Blood” has kept up development of a new version of it on steam. I’ve been a bit addicted to it recently!
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#16Is it possible to develop new flash games and experiences that can run in browsers with this kind of emulation layer?
Lots of people purport to miss developing in ActionScript, so why isn't this path more popular?
(I was just thinking about this yesterday and was considering submitting an Ask HN :)
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#17Where are they getting all the Flash files from? Just downloading them all out of the Internet Archive? Kinda weird. Why not just support IA's archiving and hosting efforts
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#18How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
They've reverse-engineered flash and written a player compatible with modern browsers. Crazy amount of effort, but worth it.
That’s really impressive. And good to see. I assumed all this flash content was just lost. Surely there are lots of bugs or unsupported features but hopefully it continues to be developed.
I suppose another option is to just use a browser tgat does support flash? Seems like some exist.
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#19Is it possible to develop new flash games and experiences that can run in browsers with this kind of emulation layer? Lots of people purport to miss developing in ActionScript, so why isn't this path more popular? (I was just thinking about this yesterday and was considering submitting an Ask HN :)
I don't see why not :-)
I think Actionscript was incredible and comparing it to how JavaScript (and Typescript) evolved is fascinating.
The developer experience of working with RTMP is something we are only now just replicating with solutions like tRPC (or my own Conduit library)
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#20Is it possible to develop new flash games and experiences that can run in browsers with this kind of emulation layer? Lots of people purport to miss developing in ActionScript, so why isn't this path more popular? (I was just thinking about this yesterday and was considering submitting an Ask HN :)
>Lots of people purport to miss developing in ActionScript, so why isn't this path more popular?
Every popular game engine will export to HTML5/Webassembly now, there's really no need to keep Flash alive just for the sake of nostalgia.