Back in a Flash: Lightspark

themadprogramer — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Even before Adobe’s decision to discontinue Flash Player, the idea of there being another Flash Player had easily been around for over a decade. One of the most promising projects to come out of this endeavor is Lightspark; a free, open-source Flash player for Linux and Windows.

Lightspark is a spiritual successor to Gnash, the GNU Flash movie player. In fact Lightspark was actually built on top of it. But one major addition, is Lightspark’s ActionScript 3 support, currently unavailable in most modern Flash Player emulators, including Ruffle.

Information on how to install Lightspark and what it’s capable of doing can be found on their nifty Wiki page.

Back in a Flash: Ruffle.rs

glmdgrielson — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 13:30:38 +0000

So, we’ve been discussing the (frankly, kind of regrettable) death of Flash for a good while. But with every dying technology comes some weirdo trying to make it go again. Just ask us.

So let’s talk about Ruffle. This is one of the latest attempts to rebuild Flash. And by that I mean, this is a Rust-based emulator of Flash. Mozilla tried their hand at it before with Shumway but well, that died. This is another go at it.

It’s still not quite at “drop-in replacement” stage yet and its ActionScript support isn’t all there yet, but hey, there’s a demo page where you can play an old take on Metal Slug if you want!

emulator – Data Horde

Back in a Flash: Lightspark

Back in a Flash: Ruffle.rs