If only there was some way of bringing this technology to the browser, like a plugin or something..
I guess the one to step in is Ruffle
Flash Museum
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#72How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
it looks all the files are unmodified, no nothing seems ported
they're probably using a ruffle implementation
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#73About 15 years ago there was a cute flash game where you had a little cube world that was a puzzle to grow into a bigger fancier environment by clicking on trigger points in the correct order. I have no idea what it was called, and can’t describe it well enough to search for it if it still exists. Every couple of years I try. Resources like this give me hope that little gems and works of art from the past will live o…
From that same guy, try Tontie.
Super cool game!
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#74Armor Mayhem says "This game can not be played from this domain. Contact louissi@armorgames.com for distribution info." That's a shame. DRM much?
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#75These brought back a lot of memories...
> Epic Battle Fantasy
> Luftrauser
> Bubble Tanks
> Desktop Tower Defense
> Deep Sleep
> Starwish
> Xiao Xiao
> Straw Hat Samurai
> Rebuild
> Clarence's Big Chance
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#76There was this toy in which you play with a baby and keep him entertained but it would become bored of toy and start crying.
Just a fun toy, I am unable to find it again.
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#77In the early aughts it was fashionable for web sites to have elaborate "intro" pages, usually animated using flash. They were so ubiquitous and annoying that someone created a parody at skipintro.com. Does anyone know if the skipintro animation can viewed anywhere today? It looks like the Wayback Machine has snapshots archived, but trying to load it returns an error.
The most known parody is zombo.com.
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#78How 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.
I contributed to Ruffle. They don't reverse engineer (this is explicitly a no), the knowledge comes from the (poor) documentation and from the open sourced flash virtual machine.
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#79This site ripped its entire database from Flashpoint Archive (https://flashpointarchive.org/), including all of the metadata, screenshots and "Hall of Fame" list. As a contributor to Flashpoint, I'm not opposed to sites like this (as long as they remain nonprofit endeavors), but I think they should make these facts clear.
In addition to its desktop client, Flashpoint Archive also offers its own experimental web frontend called 9o3o (https://ooooooooo.ooo/static/browse/), also using Ruffle for playback. It's not as fleshed out as Flash Museum yet, but games are embedded at their intended resolution and other efforts have been made to improve game compatibility, so I think it is already a worthy alternative. Check it out!
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#80When I saw the title I thought it was this Flash archive, which was recently featured on Kottke.org: https://ooooooooo.ooo/static/browse/ Maybe we're in the midst of a Flash game renaissance.
Both are web frontends for the Flashpoint Archive's database: https://flashpointarchive.org/
The difference is that 9o3o is Flashpoint's official (experimental) site, whereas Flash Museum is a third-party site that imported Flashpoint's database into WordPress and reuploaded the Flash files into an S3 bucket (without preserving directory structures or accounting for multi-asset items).