Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
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HN comment orderI spent today hacking on it! Trying to get all the Homestuck movies to work. The codebase seems pretty accessible so far. Fixed one bug where it couldn't render shapes with >65535 vertices. It's really rewarding watching movies light up as you fix things.
I check in on this project every year or so, and I'm happy to see that their support for AS3 is creeping towards completion. I, like many, wasted so many hours in flash games while in school that it was sad to see an element of gaming history fall by the wayside. At least Ruffle can pick up some of the pieces. It does remind me that that there is still no way to play Wolfenstein RPG on iOS. I…
Note that this is what the Internet Archive is using to emulate Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection [1] [1]: https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-20 | Emulating Flash Player with Rust and WebAssembly | ibraheemdev | 2 | 1 |
| 2020-11-29 | Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in RustFirst breakout · Best thread | rane | 381 | 89 |
| 2021-03-21 | Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator built in the Rust programming language | roccoisking | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-06-01 | Show HN: Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator written in Rust | gaws | 10 | 0 |
| 2023-10-21 | Ruffle: Flash Player EmulatorHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | rapnie | 351 | 173 |