Internet Archive is saving Flash animations, games and toys for posterity

guest · Nov 20, 2020

Internet Archive is saving Flash animations, games and toys for posterity
Flash is dead. Long live Flash
November 20, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/internet-archive-is-saving-flash-animations-games-and-toys-for-posterity

Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, has come to the rescue of Flash animations, games, and toys just a few weeks before Adobe ends support for Flash. The organization has announced that it is now preserving these types of Flash content.

The group has added support for Flash to its Emularity system so some Flash content plays in the browser like it used to. This initiative uses Ruffle, a Flash emulator that Internet Archive is currently developing.
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More than 1,000 games and animations like Badger, Mario Combat, and Loituma Girl are now available on the organization's collection dedicated to Flash, which allows you to access these old Flash items through its emulator. The experience is almost as if you have a Flash plugin installed in your browser, Internet Archive says.

However, you can view the collection only if your browser supports WebAssembly. These browsers include Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge.
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Internet Archive: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive

Great news for everyone concerned about the Flash end of life planned for end of 2020: The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in our software collection.

Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items play in the browser as if you had a Flash plugin installed. While Ruffle’s compatibility with Flash is less than 100%, it will play a very large portion of historical Flash animation in the browser, at both a smooth and accurate rate.
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