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Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit

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Post by gzalo » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

After realizing a few months ago that the current flashkit owners didn't really back up any of the user submitted movies, and getting some Flash nostalgia, I created this working Flash Kit archive using data from the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive. It uses Raffle so you can watch the submitted movies in a modern browser without needing plugins.

It's not curated so you'll find a variety of things, some things are really creative and can be used for inspiration.

Show HN: Flash Kitty – Archive of Adobe/Macromedia Flash Movies from Flash Kit
flashkitty.gzalo.com

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 6:55 PM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 6:57 PM UTC

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Post by mclau156 » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 7:07 PM UTC

any flash games?

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Post by gzalo » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 7:28 PM UTC

mclau156 wrote: post #4

any flash games?

Yes, in the games category you can find some. But for playing the classic fully fledged games I suggest something like https://flashpointarchive.org/ , which is more organized

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Post by guidedlight » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 7:35 PM UTC

Great work. We definitely lost a prominent part of the Internet when Flash died.

Thanks Steve /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

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Post by j45 » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

guidedlight wrote: post #6

Great work. We definitely lost a prominent part of the Internet when Flash died. Thanks Steve /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

The loss was one thing

Any conceivable replacement wasn’t ready to go either

Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control.

Flash was far from perfect. It’s still interesting to see new devs discovering what it could do 15-25 years ago and what is comparably mainstream when it exited.. up until now.

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Post by numewhodis » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 8:43 PM UTC

why is this beginning to feel like the catholic church is about to get some competition? or the second coming, I'm not sure.

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Post by wslh » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 11:23 PM UTC

Back during the dot-com era, I created and wrote the story concept for a sci-fi Flash animation called Zeek [1]. It eventually aired on the Locomotion TV channel [2], which was later acquired by Sony. Several members of the team had experience working as illustrators with DC Comics.

It's important to highlight, especially in 2024, that Flash was the way to create this type of animation back then, as streaming was prohibitive for most internet connections around the world.

[1] http://swain.webframe.org/zeek.html (as SWF) and in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zeek+locomotion

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion_(TV_channel)

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Post by apolymath » Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 11:52 PM UTC

j45 wrote: post #7

guidedlight wrote: post #6

Great work. We definitely lost a prominent part of the Internet when Flash died. Thanks Steve /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

The loss was one thing Any conceivable replacement wasn’t ready to go either Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control. Flash was far from perfect. It’s still interesting to see new devs discovering what it could do 15-25 years ago and what is comparably mainstream when it exited.. up until now.

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