lightspark VS ruffle

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lightspark ruffle
24 484
1,809 15,818
0.6% 0.8%
9.6 9.9
6 days ago about 16 hours ago
C++ Rust
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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lightspark

Posts with mentions or reviews of lightspark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-30.

ruffle

Posts with mentions or reviews of ruffle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-11.
  • Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2024
    How about the same old flash emulated in wasm, so no plugin.

    https://ruffle.rs/

    Use those same great adobe tools in a vm.

  • Voice Is a Garden: Margaret Watts Hughes's Victorian Sound Visualizations
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2024
    If it used Flash, Ruffle would've picked them up (great addon if you haven't heard of it already: https://ruffle.rs/)

    Looks like this site uses Windows Media Player embeds to play WMV files. I don't know of any big addon that makes those types of embeds work, if the server for the embedded protocol is still even alive.

    Thankfully, the videos have been mirrored to Youtube.

  • Introduction to Linear Algebra
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2024
    Looks like this uses Flash (SWF) for interactive diagrams. Luckily ruffle.rs [1] works.

    [1] https://ruffle.rs/

  • Revive old flash games using ruffle and trystero
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jun 2024
    Some of you may know ruffle (https://ruffle.rs).
  • Orisinal: Morning Sunshine (recovered old flash games)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024
    The memories…

    I often wondered what would happen to those wonderful Orisinal mini games after Flash's death, without actually checking out the site. Would Ferry Halim find the time to port them to "HTML5"? Would they just… disappear forever?

    It turns out that they know run in Ruffle[1], a Rust/WASM based Flash Player emulator I've never heard of (or forgotten about). The handful of them that I have tested work flawlessly.

    [1] https://ruffle.rs/

  • WebAssembly Playground
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024
    shrug It finds its uses. It's just not that overstated.

    sandspiel is quite popular and is built using WASM: https://sandspiel.club/

    Google Earth - https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/webassembly-brings-google-...

    Ruffle (the "make Flash run safely" tool) - https://ruffle.rs/

    Ableton's Learning Synths - https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

    etc etc. It's just hard to tell when something is using WASM when it "just works" and is indistinguishable from optimized JavaScript

  • Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2024
    I was amazed that the site still runs, apparently still using the same engine.

    But it seems that it was a flash site (of course), and archive.org seems to replace Flash Player with "Ruffle" [1]. Either that, or someone of Tobin's team replaced Flash with Ruffle >= 2019.

    [1] https://ruffle.rs/

  • New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2024
    Out of curiosity a couple months ago I wondered if I could play my old Proximity flash game on Newgrounds from the browser within the Quest 3 VR headset, and it worked great!

    That led me to do a little searching, and I discovered that originally the game didn't work in Ruffle, as I apparently did something with the play game button that wasn't normal. But someone put a fix in it back in 2020[1] in order to get my game working again. That was pretty neat. Felt kind of nice that people still cared enough about my old game to make sure it still works in an emulator.

    Still working on a more in-depth sequel (using Monogame), and I'm way overdue to make a new web version of the original. Might knock that out once I get closer to getting the sequel out there.

    [1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024

  • New York Times has added a web-based Flash player to their archive website
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
    i believe it's using Ruffle[0] and that's already happened[1]

    [0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

  • It's the offseason, so it's time to face the most lethal bullpen ever assembled. Let's play Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby!
    2 projects | /r/baseball | 9 Dec 2023
    This is all using a really cool Flash emulator called https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

What are some alternatives?

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MSPaintIDE - Programming in MS Paint

jpexs-decompiler - JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler

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