Re:Flash Player EOL, Adobe Announces 12-Day Grace Period
by derefr on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:01PM
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Indeed, even if a time-based killswitch was embedded into current versions of Flash, it would make no sense for versions of Flash from before the whole "Flash is going out of style; Flash is deprecated; Flash is dead" arc to contain such a killswitch. Flash used to be one of Adobe's tent-poles!
Conveniently, given that any Flash content published as SWF was probably authored at least 10 years ago, you could very likely get away with using such an older version of Flash to view such sites.
Rather than tracking one down yourself, I'd suggest, for best compatibility, just using a VM of an OS that ships with an older version of Flash. For example, later releases of Windows XP.
Conveniently, given that any Flash content published as SWF was probably authored at least 10 years ago, you could very likely get away with using such an older version of Flash to view such sites.
Rather than tracking one down yourself, I'd suggest, for best compatibility, just using a VM of an OS that ships with an older version of Flash. For example, later releases of Windows XP.
That's what the blog One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age (https://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/) uses to generate its screenshots, and they almost always work.