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Cool Flash/AIR update!

Posted by matt-likes-swords - March 10th, 2022


Hey Flash devs!


The latest version of AIR/Flash for Desktop has enabled the option to turn off anti-aliasing!

This was a critical feature in the browser version of Flashplayer for improving performance, but for whatever lazy reason, Adobe never cared to include it in the Desktop version. Game devs have been asking Adobe for this feature for 10 years!


HARMAN, the new company which is managing AIR/Flash, added the feature immediately when asked about it.

Flash's customer service has improved dramatically after its death!


Anyway, I'm making this blog post to point out that porting Flash games to Desktop is trivially easy now.

The lack of the "LOW" and "MEDIUM" anti-aliasing options meant that Flash games on Desktop required twice the CPU resources compared to browsers, but now that's no longer an issue. For my games, I had to use very awkward work-arounds to add these anti-aliasing options - it cost me a couple of weeks of work and frustration, and the games still have some bugs because of it.


Any developers following my footsteps will have a much easier job porting their games today.

(feel free to ask me for advice if you want)


Hopefully this doesn't come too late to be useful!


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This gives me hope that Flash can rise again after Adobe abandoned it

OH MY FUCKING GOD

Yeah, apparently it was a trivial change to unlock the option.
Adobe couldn't bother to spend 15 minutes on this!

2022 we bringin back flash games lets goooooo

I don't need any advice, but i wanna say that your games are one of the best things that have happened to me in my childhood. Thank you for doing what you do. Keep up the good work Man!

I'm dead curious - Never heard about Air/Flash. I was sure there's only Marcomedia Flash and Adobe Animate and that stuff..!
What's Air/Flash? The internet suggests it's pretty much Marcomedia Flash, but for games specifically. (Made a tiny, quick research)

AIR is a Flashplayer with standalone application features, like file access and other extra permissions.

Rejoice! Re god damn joice!

Hey, I was wondering if there was a way to export as2 files as an air file. This AIR stuff is pretty new to me and I want to seek more info about it :)

You'll need to load an AS2 swf into an AS3 swf using Loader or HTMLLoader, and then communicate with it using LocalConnection or some other method (if you want features that only AIR can do). It's pretty simple once you get used to the quirks.

So Harman want to remake the glory of the flash, which i wnat to see this . That means flash is in resurection stage. But in any cases, how do you manage to acces that xml to disable anti-alising in your demo?
Another question about performace and twice hunger of CPU in desktop AIR app:
Electron JS could not resolve that issue, seems its a framework based on chromium?
(I tested electronJS 4.2.0 so thats why i ask this and know in these days we can run flash file in that framework)