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Really excited about this, and so happy we were able to roll it out before Flash's official deprecation at the end of the year. If you have old SWFs you'd like to share, these are the directions for uploading them so that they'll be emulated in-browser: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Uploading_SWFs_for...

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GemCraft, Desktop Tower Defense, RoboKill, Line Rider, Crush the Castle, Kingdom Rush, Realm of the Mad God ... all classics, all significant, all worth preserving.

Trying valiantly like many to replace my current affairs media diet with something more substantive, and Internet Archive has proven invaluable. Currently enjoying a first edition pdf scan of an E M Forester novel from 1920s. And it's transporting to dive into the yellowed pages, modernist fonts, and random errata. Thanks for all your important work ;)

Realm of the Mad God requires a server to run, doesn't it? It might be difficult to preserve…

Are you talking about preserving an earlier version of the game? It continues to be developed and is available on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/200210/Realm_of_the_Mad_G...

Yeah, the original version which was written in Flash.

Archive.org is one of the modern wonders of the world. Let's hope it lasts.

Congrats! Flash games and videos were a huge part of my childhood. It's heartwarming to see people dedicated to preserve such a treasure trove of the older internet.

So this is real emulation, not just transcription into a video format? The vectorized and infinitely-scalable aspect of Flash is preserved? That's awesome.

Yes! See krapp's comment below -- we're using the Ruffle flash emulator targeted to WASM

The ultimate source would be if you could figure out how to archive the sites that TheFWA used to link to. That was the pinnacle of cutting edge Flash work.

I wish there was a way to get 2Advanced SWFs from somewhere.. Those sites were IMO the ultimate displays of what Flash could do visually.

"The website went back up last night: http://2advanced.com for a final 6 weeks until Flash vanishes!"

Source: https://twitter.com/fwa/status/1327665766213316608

I managed to grab a local copy. Let me know if you want it.

That would be awesome! Thanks for the heads up. My username at gmail if you get a chance to send it. Thanks again!

Emailed you a copy. Cheers!

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