launcher VS Lila

In you want to play old Flash/Shockwave/etc games, download Flashpoint. The Linux build is currently experimental, but you can also run the Windows build via Wine/Proton.

Flashpoint: This is less of a website and more of a downloadable archive of Flash games of the past.

The Flashpoint project has preserved a lot of that.

You're looking for Flashpoint then.

I was expecting "Attempt 3" to involve Bluemaxima's Flashpoint, and was surprised not to see it mentioned. Does anyone know why that wouldn't have been an option, or is this essentially what Attempt 1 would have involved?

For anyone not familiar with Flashpoint, it's a project to preserve old flash games and animations and keep them playable on modern platforms. It's open source and includes a huge library (including it looks like Hapland 1-3).

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

Used to play this all the time, back then. It can still be played offline with BlueMaxima's Flashpoint: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

You can through Flashpoint

Maybe check Flashpoint?

For those completely unaware (like I was), lichess [1] seems to be a chess server.

Not sure whether they need AWS scale and couldn't cut costs down from 420k a year to something cheaper. Naively, this seems like something MS could sponsor by providing long-term discount.

That said, I have no idea how much cheaper this would be on other cloud providers, or whether they even have the need to cut down costs. For all I know, they might be making 10x of that in donations.

[1] http://lichess.org

I also do monthly donations to lichess.org since I have been on the platform for a long time, like playing chess and want to support the platform in question.

As others suggested, https://www.openingtree.com is so powerful. Just put your chescom or lichess.org nickname and it will do everything for you.

Contrary to what some of this sub's more ardent "fans" might think I am not just an animate ball of anti-Catholic hatred who spends all of my free time desecrating the Eucharist, paying for abortions, and drinking the tears of Baby Jesus. When I'm not on here I can be found getting my ass kicked as La_Petveturanto on Lichess and the Online Go Server, rotting my brain with horror media of all sorts, discussing the finer points of left wing political theory and practice, new religious movements, and constructed languages, furthering the cause of my people with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, doing my part to bring about La Fina Venko, and parenting the world's most vocal cat and a blonde dustbunny which is allegedly a dog. I'm less of an attack dog and more like something you'd find on /r/pitbullsinjammies, and might easily be the most extroverted person on the autism spectrum.

I second this. And you don't even need a physical board, lichess.org is free.

I just accessed https://lichess.org on T-Mobile, both on a mobile device and on a laptop via mobile hotspot. It works fine here. Happy to test any other URLs for you. (I don't know of a .xyz URL to test - have one handy?)

Any comparisons are more or less scientifically meaningless since the sample sizes are too small. Even if lichess.org is stronger it's the exact opposite issue the OP is talking about. A better comparison for one's own sanity is percentile to percentile.

lichess (version 7014010): free online Chess

This sort of reminds me of the captchas on lichess.org, where you have to solve short chess puzzles.