In a bid to preserve a generation’s worth of Flash games, a new open-source project hopes to create, and share, a Flash emulator.
The project – which comes just a few weeks after Adobe announced plans to “end-of-life Flash” – hopes to secure a way to play Flash games in your browser via emulation. Mike Welsh, who has previously worked on the Flash-to-HD video converter Swivel for Newgrounds, is currently leading the project.
“Over the past few months Mike has been working on a way to play Flash in the browser via emulation,” said an announcement on Newgrounds (thanks, PC Gamer). “We were gonna surprise everyone this fall by suddenly supporting classic content here on NG but it leaked early and the cat is out of the bag. You can see the progress at Ruffle.rs!”
Written in the Rust programming language, the emulator, called Ruffle, is an open-source project that also hopes to create a browser extension that “detects old Flash embed code and swaps it with Ruffle, meaning you could visit any old website and the Flash will (eventually) just work”.