Re:New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
by ninjamuffin99 on Friday January 19, 2024 @07:10PM
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That “someone” who made the fix for Proximity is Mike Welsh, who created Ruffle! He has done a lot of work for flash preservation and truly cares about Newgrounds and it’s community. Back in 2013 (when he was actually an employee of Newgrounds) he was the sole programmer on Swivel, probably the best swf-to-mp4 converting tools ever. Every animator I know that uses flash STILL use Swivel to get an MP4 export.
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Re:New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
by cableshaft on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:29PM
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That's really awesome. I don't follow these things often enough anymore, so the name didn't look familiar to me. But I'm glad he's put so much effort into Flash preservation.
Re:New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
by charred_patina on Friday January 19, 2024 @08:21PM
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Oh man I loved the podcast you did with Mike for Newgrounds. I had never stopped to think about the fact that Mike had to actually write an entire flash emulator to get Castle Crashers to run on the xbox. It's so clever and genius, shipping users an emulator like that.
To anyone who isn't familiar, here's a link to the podcast:
Re:New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
by ninjamuffin99 on Friday January 19, 2024 @11:33PM
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haha thanks! Yeah Mike is a real programming wiz and he’s super inspiring! I’ve gone to him for programming help many times but he always tries to get me to learn it on my own than handholding me… lol. He’s one of the nicest people I know :)