Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by nonethewiser on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:44PM
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How do these work? Obviously not with flash. How did they get “ported” or whatever?
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Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by capableweb on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:47PM
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It is Flash files at least (https://flashmuseum.s3.amazonaws.com/htf_ep_45_out_on_a_limb... as an example)
Seems to be using the Flash Player emulator Ruffle - https://ruffle.rs/
Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by ChrisArchitect on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:47PM
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> On our website, Flash content will run on your browser using the Flash Player emulator ruffle. Ruffle is an open source emulator built using the Rust programming language. It uses WebAssembly to run Flash content on modern browsers
Amazing. Is this related to efforts by archive.org to get all of their archived stuff working? (Believe they also are using Ruffle)
Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by filcuk on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:49PM
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They've reverse-engineered flash and written a player compatible with modern browsers. Crazy amount of effort, but worth it.
Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by nonethewiser on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:55PM
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That’s really impressive. And good to see. I assumed all this flash content was just lost. Surely there are lots of bugs or unsupported features but hopefully it continues to be developed.
I suppose another option is to just use a browser tgat does support flash? Seems like some exist.
Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by Bakingpotato on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:42PM
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Ruffle isn't a reverse engineered project, from what I can tell. it seems like they're following some spec, and comparing with the flash player, not decomping it
Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by praptak on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:37AM
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I contributed to Ruffle. They don't reverse engineer (this is explicitly a no), the knowledge comes from the (poor) documentation and from the open sourced flash virtual machine.
Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani...
by Bakingpotato on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:52PM
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it looks all the files are unmodified, no nothing seems ported
they're probably using a ruffle implementation