Developers create tool to archive and play 38,000 old Flash games – Gaming – .Geeks

Forget the PlayStation 5 and the latest video cards to play the latest games. You used to play the nicest games in Flash. Soon Flash will no longer exist, but BlueMaxima has archived 38,000 games to be able to play them.

A group of hackers is trying to keep the old Flash games alive with a new project. That project is called Flashpoint, and is meant to preserve old web games that could be played in Adobe Flash Player by being able to play them in a separate client. The makers have indexed 38,526 Flash games. They can be played in a client that BlueMaxima has designed itself. Players can download the client including all games. The Ultimate version is 288GB in size. There is also a smaller client where the games can be downloaded separately. The client also has support for Linux. The client runs Flash in a separate container. According to the makers, the games are not transferred to html5 because that is not possible automatically.

The tool is made because Adobe Flash will stop definitively at the end of this year. The software, which has been suffering from security problems for years, is then no longer supported by Adobe and most major software manufacturers. The makers say that they find it important to preserve internet history, and that the old Flash games are “a significant part of the culture that is doomed to disappear into obscurity.” The makers use as much open source software as possible. All code is put on GitHub so that others can build on it. The designers say in a faq by the way, they are not sure how legal it is. “The answer is that nobody knows and that nobody should care.” The makers say that game developers who do not want their games in the tool can contact them.

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