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Isn't there some way to preserve them, kind of like what people did with DOS boxes?
by asdfman123 7y ago
Isn't there some way to preserve them, kind of like what people did with DOS boxes?
- entropicdrifter 7y agoThere are frameworks that let you compile flash games/apps/videos into native executables with pretty good compatibility (so minimal porting effort). That's probably the best we've got besides using an out-of-date insecure browser.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoI'm sure there will be, there are a few implementations/emulators out there. Gnash, Shumway, Lightspark, and Ruffle. Ruffle seems to be pretty promising, it's being worked on by Newgrounds people and it's written in Rust to target the desktop and WASM. It looks like they can do animations and audio now, and they're working on the various versions of ActionScript.
- azakai 7y agoSadly Flash is incredibly hard to write a 100% implementation for. That's why there are so many attempts; they've all failed (but they can work well for specific Flash games/apps).
- skissane 7y agoIt would be great if Adobe could open source their existing Flash Player at some point. I struggle to see how doing so would harm them commercially. Even if an open source player is available, browser vendors have no interest in supporting it, so it won't be supported with browsers. It isn't going to take away interest in their newer pure HTML5 authoring tools.