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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by kmeisthax on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:15AM (#24869717)
We're talking about CS4 here: Flash was basically THE way to build UI back then. I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of the motivating factors for Adobe buying out Macromedia (aside from just quashing potential competition from Macromedia Studio).

Hell, a lot of high-budget video games around the same time used a little thing called Autodesk Scaleform. That's basically Autodesk's reimplementation of Flash Player (Adobe was too short-sighted to pursue this market) which game developers could quite easily license and embed into their games.

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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by mcdevilkiller on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:55AM (#24870118)
The wonderful pseudo-3D HUD on tye Crysis franchise is made with Scaleform. It's deprecated, and AFAIK, CryEngine doesn't use it anymore, but it made the best GUIs back then.
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Re:You can no longer reinstall CS 2 or 3 even if you have th... by frankzen on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:35PM (#24871247)
THE way to build a UI that worked and looked consistently across platforms at the time as well. It was a great time! Even now it still takes some work to achieve the same!
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