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Re:Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, s... by grishka on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:51PM (#28847702)
ActionScript 3? Bitmap filters and blending modes? I tried throwing all the swf's I have laying around at it, and the older one is the more likely it will work. Some AS2 games are fully playable even.

It'll get there eventually of course as it's very much WIP. I wonder when will it stop calling itself a "flash player emulator" tho. It plays flash files. It's literally a flash player.

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Re:Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, s... by bsder on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:44PM (#28848007)
> Bitmap filters and blending modes?

This, in particular, is limited by manpower and reverse engineering. Simply documenting what Flash actually does would be a huge help. Volunteers welcome.

Rendering flash requires that you be pixel compatible to something that is not documented anywhere. That requires someone to do a lot of experiments on something that barely runs anywhere anymore, document what they find, and then have someone convert that into code.

As for Actionscript 3, here is the tracking issue: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368

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