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Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani... by filcuk on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:49PM (#36909674)
They've reverse-engineered flash and written a player compatible with modern browsers. Crazy amount of effort, but worth it.
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Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani... by nonethewiser on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:55PM (#36909772)
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.

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Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani... by Bakingpotato on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:42PM (#36915495)
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
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Re:Flash Museum – explore more than 130k flash games and ani... by praptak on Saturday July 29, 2023 @02:37AM (#36917542)
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.
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