User:Stux/Flash2021

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GOAL:

  • To Test Flash Alternatives that work past its End of Life.

Current Plans and Results

  • Mirroring (allows to run toons and games from standalone command line tools):
  • Candidate platforms:
    • Test Lightspark -- Status:
      • Was able to successfully compile and install version 0.8.3 (including setting up the browser plugin for Pale Moon).
        • Compiled on Debian 10 following these instructions
        • Some dependencies were missing: gettext but I already had build-essential installed (see this issue)
        • The requirement for glibmm-2.4 was removed after the 0.8.3 release here.
      • However, H*R seems to use an older version of Flash Lightspark doesn't support well.
      • Next: try to compile and run latest trunk, see if AVM1 support has improved. (Done)
        • Sadly, although there were improvements, they did not work as expected. At least the number of AVM1 errors were reduced.
        • However, when playing video the sound was glitched, started over and became out of sync with the video
        • Most video has artifacts and did not display properly
        • Main Menu, toons menu, games menu did not work. Stinkoman did not work either (black screen after briefly showing "loading..." message)
        • The characters menu was the only thing that worked correctly (even the eject button worked!). The SBE menu loaded partially.
      • Next Steps:
        • Report issues in github.
        • Lern Actionscript and try to contribute (if I have time ^_^;)
    • Gnash (software)?
      • Apparently no longer compiles on "modern" systems: see this issue
      • Try to compile in VM or using method reported above
    • Flash Standalone (will it work indefinitely?):
    • Ruffle at the internet archive (src):
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