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[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 46 points 10 months ago

Game and media preservation, for one. But I'm sure part of it is the technical challenge. There's still websites where you can download those old flash games to run them locally, but one day Adobe Flash player will cease to work on modern operating systems.

[-] luca@lemmy.today 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Exactly. Flash was hugely popular, there's a wealth of content, media, projects and entire websites made with Flash (not just games) that would otherwise be lost and this unbelievable effort brings all that content back to life.

[-] jaykay@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I miss the old flash games honestly

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago
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