[HN Gopher] AnimateArchive (old versions of Adobe Flash)
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       AnimateArchive (old versions of Adobe Flash)
        
       Author : unleaded
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2023-11-17 06:18 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (animatearchive.neocities.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (animatearchive.neocities.org)
        
       | stepupmakeup wrote:
       | It's the actual flash creation software, not flash players or
       | flash games for anyone curious. They seem to just work on Windows
       | 10 without needing to look up workarounds, but they crash often
       | in my experience.
        
       | Brajeshwar wrote:
       | Wow! I have a lot of memories and nostalgia with Flash. I started
       | when a colleague kinda forced me to do Flash (I think version 4),
       | where I stumbled on ASFunction, which changed the whole game. I
       | ended my relations with Flash after I got my name in the About -
       | Credit Screen. Let me try to install the latest version to see
       | where things are. :-)
        
       | Dwedit wrote:
       | "No Copyright infringement intended"
       | 
       | The ultimate get out of jail free card.
        
         | DaiPlusPlus wrote:
         | Unregistered Hypercam2
        
       | nazgulsenpai wrote:
       | So weird you posted this because I stumbled upon it organically 2
       | days ago when I thought I needed it to modify an SWF file.
       | Installed CS5 in WINE before realizing I couldn't import an SWF
       | directly.
       | 
       | Then I found JPEXS Decompiler[0] that allows for full
       | modification of SWF files!
       | 
       | [0]https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler
        
         | duskwuff wrote:
         | flasm and flare [1] may also be of interest to you.
         | 
         | [1]: http://www.nowrap.de/flasm.html /
         | http://www.nowrap.de/flare.html
        
           | Dwedit wrote:
           | I used to use SWFMILL as well, also SWFCOMBINE.
        
       | stevebmark wrote:
       | Has anyone tried to load old Flash files with these? Will give it
       | a try, I always regretted not converting some of my old Flash
       | projects into YouTube videos, etc.
        
         | ericswpark wrote:
         | You might have some luck with Ruffle.rs
        
           | tombert wrote:
           | I have been immensely impressed with the progress that Ruffle
           | has made. I think the entire Homestar Runner site is powered
           | by Ruffle now, and it seems to work totally fine.
        
       | AndrewSwift wrote:
       | If anyone is interested, I am trying to bring back the spirit of
       | Flash with a project to build animated websites with Adobe
       | Illustrator. See svija.com for details.
        
         | CharlesW wrote:
         | > _...I am trying to bring back the spirit of Flash with a
         | project to build animated websites with Adobe Illustrator._
         | 
         | Out of curiosity, why is Adobe Illustrator better for this than
         | Adobe Animate (nee Adobe Flash)?
        
           | AndrewSwift wrote:
           | You can build a whole website, not just the animations.
        
       | kgeist wrote:
       | I remember playing around in Flash 4 and the site skips versions
       | 2-4. I wonder why they're skipped.
        
         | aleph_minus_one wrote:
         | I guess because the creators of this website don't have files
         | of these Flash versions lying around.
        
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