ruffle

A Flash Player emulator written in Rust (by ruffle-rs)

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  • Bill Atkinson has passed away
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2025
    https://ruffle.rs/ recently came to my attention when I needed to resuscitate a back into tool that had been completely built in Macromedia products
  • Ruffle – open-source flash player
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2025
  • Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2025
    FWIW, the thing I've found as the slowest single factor on my machine, might not be the slowest on yours; I might have not noticed the real cause of slowdowns on your machine at all, and you may be the only one able to diagnose it.

    (and for the record, I'm on W10 too.)

    Also, my personal experience from optimizing https://ruffle.rs/ is that in many cases Firefox's wasm runtime can behave slightly faster than on Chrome for some reason; and performance issues are often instead caused by other APIs like the canvas.

  • How Flash Games shaped the video game industry
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2025
    The proprietary tools were only an issue for people who needed the timeline. Games-wise, Both Actionscript 2 and 3 were perfectly usable without Flash. The MTASC compiler was a massive game-changer, and then Adobe released the AS3 compiler themselves, and certainly when I was at a consultancy working on a massive, expensive game, none of us were authoring anything in Flash. Even the designers and artists simply provided image assets.

    A few years later, I did use Flash to teach students interactivity (in 2016, I was wondering why myself, but hey, university courses are hardly up-to-date) but there was little other reason to use it.

    Today, I still rate AS3 and if there was an LLVM project to output, I don't know, WASM, or similar, I'd try it. Oh, there are?

    - https://github.com/bvibber/wasm2swf

    - https://ruffle.rs/

    Of course, MTASC wunderkind Nicolas Cannasse went off to create https://haxe.org/, which was used quite well on Smart TVs and the like for a while, still used in games. Maybe we already have the answer, but the web is too boring for this stuff.

  • ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2025
  • 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/

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