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Really great writeup. So people stop asking the obvious question, here is the GitHub issue that clearly shows Ruffle doesn’t support ActionScript 3:

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368

I recently picked up a copy of Flash MX to use on an old PowerBook, highly recommend others do the same. As many have commented, today’s authoring tools are poor substitutes (someone should do a list of the superior abandonware versions of SaaS products).

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It looks like its 99% there though in terms of support

This linked issue is - quote - "a non-exhuastive, basic checklist of where we are aiming". As in, a checklist for MVP level support. And indeed, we have pretty much reached the MVP level, with several simple games (and some nontrivial libraries like box2d or mochicrypt) working.

From this point on, it's hard to make a simple TODO checklist. We could analyze the entire Flash API surface and make a tracking issue for each available class, but that's a lot of bookkeeping and it doesn't really say that much about real support (as, assuming pareto principle, 80% of fancier features are used by only 20% of games).

Thank you for this very thorough and honest explanation. Really appreciate what you’re doing with Ruffle!

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