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Its buggy as hell right now in browser and I need to figure out how to do it better but it can be done! The standalone player loads saved swfs perfectly.

Dont let anyone say its impossible. Flash can live and it can be better than ever. In the future we can have it on mobile devices and with better security. The only reason it died instead of improved is because big teck declared it so.

Tell flash sites about waflash, cheerpx, and ruffle.rs. With it they can live on and once the kinks are smoothed out be better than ever.

For those wanting to play their saved swf files find a standalone swf player aka flash player. There are even ones for mobile devices but getting a good one that plays games can be hard. Different players act differently. If one doesnt work try another.

There is also a browser called Puffin that mobile users might want to look into.

Its buggy as hell right now in browser and I need to figure out how to do it better but it can be done! The standalone player loads saved swfs perfectly. Dont let anyone say its impossible. Flash can live and it can be better than ever. In the future we can have it on mobile devices and with better security. The only reason it died instead of improved is because big teck declared it so. Tell flash sites about waflash, cheerpx, and ruffle.rs. With it they can live on and once the kinks are smoothed out be better than ever. For those wanting to play their saved swf files find a standalone swf player aka flash player. There are even ones for mobile devices but getting a good one that plays games can be hard. Different players act differently. If one doesnt work try another. There is also a browser called Puffin that mobile users might want to look into.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt (edited )

There is little use for it outside of really shitty web design paradigms and maybe a few shitty games.

If you make a shitty game, you might as well use a non-proprietary language, like C or Python.

If you want to use it for web design, well, it's the wrong direction, the same wrong direction JavaScript points to.

The way web design SHOULD work is that the backend (controller / model) provides a datastructure and nothing else. And the frontend (view) determines how that datastructure is displayed without regard to any other input from the host.

In this way the user is respected because the user is in control of the user experience. Flash is antithetical to this philosophy. It couples backend and frontend together.

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My concern isnt the preservation of Adobes Flash Player. Its concern for preserving the past creations. I could care less about the nuance provided the media is properly preserved and avaliable to the public. So far ive not seen a proper preservation method beyond keeping the flash files and giving them a more secure and modern way to be played.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

If you want to preserve Flash Media. Just seal them in Carbonite and be done with it. I mean, I probably have some 8-tracks in my attic somewhere. They are fine where they are.

Anything that is worth preserving has already been converted. I'm pretty sure Homestar Runner has been converted to a video format.

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Thats a matter of opinion.

As for converting games if you know something that does the job great you let me know.

As for being converted to new video format ive only seen flash videos have their video quality be downgraded. In clarity and often color. Often incomparable to the original that could be looped seamlessly or zoomed in effortlessly to clearly read some writing. The conversion also lacks anything interactive that the video might have had.

I get it you dont care if it all degrades or dies. I and others do.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

If you really want to preserve Flash apps the correct way though, you should probably brush up on Linux Containers. This is the Carbonite you need.

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I will look into it. Thanks.