[NetBehaviour] Ruffle – the Flash Player emulator

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi Helen,

Surely not us! :-)

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 12:00 PM Helen Varley Jamieson <
helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:

> that is good news. i wonder how they define "famous" ... ;)
> On 30.01.21 16:17, Graziano Milano via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Last week I found out by reading the Independent's article by Andrew
> Griffin, that the Internet Archive announced two months ago that *“it
> would be cataloguing famous Flash content so that they could be preserved
> even after the technology is discontinued. Users will be able to use a
> Flash emulator to play animations and games.”*
>
> The Internet Archive, which has already saved over thousands playable DOS
> games, books and a copy of the entire internet, said that it would be using
> a Flash emulator called Ruffle to let animations play in the browser.
>
> Viewers do not need to have a Flash plugin themselves installed, and the
> system works on Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Safari. Here are more info about
> that published at the Internet Archive’s blog:
>
> – Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive:
>
> http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/
>
> – Flash Back! Further Thoughts on Flash at the Internet Archive:
>
> http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/22/flash-back-further-thoughts-on-flash-at-the-internet-archive/
>
> And here is *Ruffle* – https://ruffle.rs – the Flash Player emulator
> built in the Rust programming language that can be installed on a website
> we own, as a browser extension and using it as a desktop application.
>
> Graziano
>
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