Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It

Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by ocdtrekkie on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:06PM (#17630201)

https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/ is allegedly still a thing that exists and that you can install if you have Windows. It says it works on Windows 7 and 8, IE, and Firefox. My guess is that they haven't updated that, and it'll no longer work on Firefox since Quantum, but it's likely some flavor of IE will work with you there. And my guess is it'll work on Windows 10 with IE, since most things that work on 8 work fine on 10.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by tomysshadow on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:01PM (#17630540)

Actually, it's still being updated, but only on Windows. Director (the authoring tool used to create Shockwave Movies) was discontinued, but Shockwave was not.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by ravenstine on Friday July 27, 2018 @09:20PM (#17630892)

I wonder how it feels to work updates for software that nobody is using and has no future. That's got to suck.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by jl6 on Saturday July 28, 2018 @10:18AM (#17633264)

Come and join the multitudes working in big corporate legacy application support, where the applications all have <100 users and are scheduled to be replaced imminently (and have been for the last 10 years).

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by snowpanda on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:27AM (#17631525)

Interesting, I don't play games, but I'm all for preserving stuff.

It seems that if you change your user agent you can get the links.

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Shockwave 12.3.4.204 Windows Full Other Browsers

https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/download/?installer=Shockwav...

Shockwave 12.2.5.195 Full (OS X 10.6 and above)

https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/download/?installer=Shockwav...

Shockwave Player 10 for Mac PPC

https://get.adobe.com/shockwave/download/?installer=Shockwav...

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by tomysshadow on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:43AM (#17631587)

You don't need to change your user agent. Just click the "Need Shockwave for a different computer?" button on that page.

You definitely want the Full version not Slim. The Slim version throws out some backwards compatibility stuff to decrease the filesize.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by jplayer01 on Saturday July 28, 2018 @08:53AM (#17632936)

It probably still works with the Firefox fork Pale Moon.

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Re:Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It by DarkStar851 on Sunday July 29, 2018 @01:07PM (#17639108)

Can confirm it does!

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