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Show HN: Reverse-engineering Shockwave to save early 2000s web games (Rust/WASM)

https://github.com/igorlira/dirplayer-rs/

Hi HN,When browsers killed NPAPI plugin support, thousands of early 2000s web games were effectively lost to time. Macromedia Shockwave, in particular, was a closed-source, highly complex, and largely undocumented beast.So a few friends and I spent the last two years doing something arguably unhinged: rebuilding the entire Director engine from scratch. Today, we're finally sharing...

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