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A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

59 mentions on Hacker News by 48 people: 8 stories, 51 comments · first 2019-08-17 · latest 2026-09-07

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  1. …call it a massive pain. [1] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/can-we-have-either-a-new-t... [2] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/18397 [3] See lines 55 and 117-127 in https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/blob/6890c618daab3153343...
    comment by adrian17 · 2026-09-07 · in It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
  2. …is stubbed for specifically non-null, non-http commands (generally this is RMTP/RTMFP). See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/blob/df11c2206bc6be0a329...
    comment by danielhjacobs · 2026-02-15 · in Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
  3. …be the issue for your games (the websites I maintain use https://metacpan.org/pod/AMF::Perl ). See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues?q=is:issue+state:... .
    comment by danielhjacobs · 2026-02-15 · in Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
  4. …instructions for setting up the websockify proxy (by the webmaster of the site) can be found here: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Qu... .
    comment by danielhjacobs · 2026-02-15 · in Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
  5. And, of course, Ruffle[1][2] to play them. [1] https://ruffle.rs/ [2] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/
    comment by xvilka · 2026-02-05 · in Adobe Animate will be discontinued
  6. …involves a lot of unnecessarily verbose code to drop and regain context between awaits, i.e. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/blob/b5732b9783dce5d2311...
    comment by kmeisthax · 2025-12-26 · in The Algebra of Loans in Rust
  7. …Proximity is 20 years old this year. Huh. Probably needs a 20 year anniversary edition. [1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024
    comment by cableshaft · 2024-01-19 · in New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
  8. …sponsors section for the open source project they are using is a trip down flash game memory lane: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/?tab=readme-ov-file#spon...
    comment by thecosas · 2024-01-19 · in New York Times Flash-based visualizations work again
  9. i believe it's using Ruffle[0] and that's already happened[1] [0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle [1] https://homestarrunner.com/post-flash-update
    comment by arrakeen · 2024-01-09 · in New York Times has added a web-based Flash player to their archive website
  10. Uses Ruffle (Flash emulator). Pretty difficult UI to wrestle with. Also takes a while to load. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle https://github.com/jtwaleson/NovaLight-Challenge
    comment by adamredwoods · 2023-09-20 · in Novalight
  11. …was actually implemented-- it would require the dev integrating ruffle to specify a URL to emulate. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/325
    comment by rezonant · 2023-07-28 · in Flash Museum
  12. A relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/325 Seems like being able to override was the plan, but not clear it was actually done?
    comment by rezonant · 2023-07-28 · in Flash Museum
  13. …tessellator. Oh and yes, the opening bars of "Doctor" are permanently burned into my head now. [0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/7858
    comment by kmeisthax · 2023-07-15 · in Internet Archive expands Flash support
  14. I've opened some new Ruffle issues so we can hopefully fix the problems you mentioned: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/12071 https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/12073 As I noted on those issues, this game uses multiple…
    comment by nosamu · 2023-07-15 · in Internet Archive expands Flash support
  15. …and think it was good? If so, then the Ruffle project is probably worth keeping an eye on: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle Unlike the several previous Open Source "Flash player" projects that didn't really go anywhere, this one works…
    comment by justinclift · 2023-05-11 · in Ask HN: Resources for older developers?
  16. It did happen eventually: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by conradev · 2023-03-31 · in When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
  17. …player written in Rust), seems like it has legs and plays a substantial amount of Flash content: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle They released their first "progress report" a few weeks ago: https://ruffle.rs/blog/2023/03/12/progress-rep…
    comment by justinclift · 2023-03-31 · in When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
  18. …question, here is the GitHub issue that clearly shows Ruffle doesn’t support ActionScript 3: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368 I recently picked up a copy of Flash MX to use on an old PowerBook, highly recommend others do the…
    comment by numair · 2022-12-21 · in I still use Flash
  19. …audio and video functionality of these old games restored and being able to play them again. - [0]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Test-SWFs [1]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox#bb-pro-vs-regular- ... [2]:…
    comment by graderjs · 2022-12-21 · in I still use Flash
  20. …and is quite fast. It's cool seeing the audio and video work and playing those old games. - [0]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Test-SWFs [1]: https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox#bb-pro-vs-regular-... [2]:…
    comment by graderjs · 2022-12-01 · in Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can’t do with today’s web?
  21. Erm, this exists and it's called Ruffle: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle It works quite decently, but they can always use help.
    comment by bsder · 2022-09-19 · in Ask HN: Why Adobe still can’t figure out Flash on WASM?
  22. We now have Ruffle which does more or less what Adobe should have done 10 years ago. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle If Adobe had seen their ban from the iPhone as a challenge to make Flash player capable of running without a plug-in…
    comment by samwillis · 2022-04-17 · in Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games
  23. …guess that's not too surprising, we're only halfway* done with AS2/3 implementations as it is!) * https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Roadmap#milestones
    comment by andai · 2022-03-08 · in I can no longer compile my first Flash game
  24. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle A flash VM running in safe WebAssembly sounds like an awesome idea for preserving a lot of older web content.
    comment by hajile · 2022-03-07 · in I can no longer compile my first Flash game
  25. …of thousands of flash games with an easy interface to play them through flash player. [0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle [1] https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/
    comment by assemblylang · 2022-03-07 · in I can no longer compile my first Flash game
  26. …third party tools that will allow embedded flash to work again. I'm curious if you've tried ruffle: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle It will not work for exactly your problem (powerpoint plugin vs html5 webpage), but I've found most…
    comment by TheDong · 2022-03-07 · in I can no longer compile my first Flash game
  27. …the same browser session. [0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#vf-pr... [1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle [2]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#appli...
    comment by graderjs · 2022-01-18 · in Show HN: Web proxy in iframe with Flash and incognito tabs
  28. …they use it to keep some (but not all) of their archive of Flash movies and games running. [1] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by benrbray · 2021-11-21 · in The history of Flash games in China
  29. …and then have someone convert that into code. As for Actionscript 3, here is the tracking issue: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368
    comment by bsder · 2021-10-13 · in Adobe uses DMCA to nuke project that keeps Flash alive, secure and adware free
  30. …to memories these days Don't let them fade away! As mentioned in the article... check out ruffle: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle I was able to drop that on the page of a flash movie that I have hosted for nearly 20 years and it's…
    comment by bonestamp2 · 2021-03-19 · in Tracing the Sprawling Roots of Flash Preservation
  31. There's a lot of unsafe usage in this codebase ( https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/search?q=unsafe returns 5 screenfuls) - though I don't know enough about Rust to tell how risky these are.
    comment by fulafel · 2021-02-05 · in A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
  32. See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle and how the Internet Archive is using it: https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...
    comment by acdha · 2021-01-26 · in Firefox 85
  33. Ruffle - A Flash Player emulator over WebAssembly: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by maxgraey · 2020-12-31 · in WebAssembly Studio
  34. …is converted over, but they're actively supporting the Ruffle.js project and using it on site: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by larsiusprime · 2020-12-31 · in HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
  35. Yes: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by m3at · 2020-12-31 · in Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
  36. …3.0 [0], so if you've got a pile of newish .swf's you'd like to try, they may not work yet. [0] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/1368
    comment by sq_ · 2020-12-10 · in Adobe has released the last Flash update ever
  37. It doesn't solve them. See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/26 Here's a flash style solution to the problem: https://github.com/jrmuizel/full-scene-rasterizer
    comment by muizelaar · 2020-11-29 · in Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
  38. …and already can play a reasonably sized subset of flash correctly at their intended speed. [0]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by TheDong · 2020-09-21 · in V8 Release v8.6
  39. …https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ In development: https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle And then the most recent one, CheerpX, which as I understand it runs the Adobe flash runtime itself via wasm:…
    comment by efreak · 2020-07-25 · in Flash Game History
  40. Ruffle works great in modern browsers and is open source: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by CryoLogic · 2020-07-09 · in The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
  41. …(via WebAssembly, I think, though it technically supports ASM.js via emscripten) in HTML5 browsers: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by wizzwizz4 · 2020-07-01 · in Kongregate closed to new games, shutting down forums and chat
  42. …the Ruffle browser extension. I think it's designed as a drop in replacement for the flash player. https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Using-Ruffle#browse...
    comment by nbrempel · 2020-06-26 · in “Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”
  43. This might be worth someone taking some time to figure out how to make it work with Ruffle: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by bsder · 2020-06-21 · in Logic, Before ICs
  44. …few examples available. https://www.newgrounds.com/flash/player https://github.com/Herschel/Swivel https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle Roadmap: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Roadmap Demo: http://ruffle-rs.s3-website-us-west-1.ama…
    comment by frigid · 2020-06-15 · in Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
  45. I believe that's exactly what Newgrounds is doing. See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by LEARAX · 2020-05-27 · in Nitrome to convert its Flash game library to HTML5
  46. We should embrace flash again - https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by searchableguy · 2020-05-11 · in Second-Guessing the Modern Web
  47. You mean like https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle ?
    comment by Klonoar · 2020-05-01 · in Ask HN: Would it be possible to reimplement flash in rust/web assembly?
  48. …would be incredible. If anyone's interested in Ruffle's roadmap, it's available here [3]. [1] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle [2] https://github.com/Herschel/Swivel [3] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/wiki/Roadmap
    comment by j-james · 2020-01-31 · in Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project
  49. …of Ruffle) are already using Ruffle on some of their flash content. [0] https://ruffle.rs [1] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by wesleyhill · 2020-01-31 · in Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project
  50. …in Rust. (So you'd still be using ActionScript for authoring) [1] https://www.openfl.org/ [2] https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
    comment by larsiusprime · 2019-10-13 · in Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era