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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