Older browser module for playing flash games - where to find?

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Older browser module for playing flash games - where to find?

Post#16 by Rava » 06 Dec 2022, 17:38

Ed_P wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 16:55
Do you have a module users can download donald? Or links to the files you use?
I share that notion of sharing the module. :)
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Older browser module for playing flash games - where to find?

Post#17 by donald » 06 Dec 2022, 19:01

A module? -- I'm not sure if it's legal to redistribute the Adobe software in a module.

regarding the files -- The old link does not work anymore but I found it on archive.org:
https://archive.org/download/adobe-flas ... _64.tar.gz

could be a slightly different version,I don't know, at the moment I run a 32bit porteus and
the archive is 64 bit.

The gtk2 xzm is in <mirror>/x86_64/Porteus-v5.0/bundles/

I'm sure you guys are capable of building a module yourselves, right?

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tested with porteus_5-x86_64-xfce = it works. B)

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Post#18 by Rava » 07 Dec 2022, 00:26

donald wrote:
06 Dec 2022, 19:01
I'm sure you guys are capable of building a module yourselves, right?
I am sure we are.
For the flashplayer itself:

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guest@porteus:/$ cd /mybin/linux/
guest@porteus:/mybin/linux$ mkdir flashplayer
guest@porteus:/mybin/linux$ cd flashplayer/
guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/flashplayer$ wget https://archive.org/download/adobe-flash-player-projector/flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
--2022-12-07 01:19:32--  https://archive.org/download/adobe-flash-player-projector/flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving archive.org (archive.org)... 207.241.224.2
Connecting to archive.org (archive.org)|207.241.224.2|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://ia601802.us.archive.org/23/items/adobe-flash-player-projector/flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz [following]
--2022-12-07 01:19:33--  https://ia601802.us.archive.org/23/items/adobe-flash-player-projector/flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving ia601802.us.archive.org (ia601802.us.archive.org)... 207.241.227.72
Connecting to ia601802.us.archive.org (ia601802.us.archive.org)|207.241.227.72|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8514041 (8.1M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz’

flash_player_sa_lin 100%[===================>]   8.12M  94.7KB/s    in 31s     

2022-12-07 01:20:05 (267 KB/s) - ‘flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz’ saved [8514041/8514041]

guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/flashplayer$ tar -xzvf flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz 
flashplayer

LGPL/
LGPL/notice.txt
LGPL/LGPL.txt
license.pdf
guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/flashplayer$ ls -o flashplayer 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 guest 15187288 2020-11-24 23:50 flashplayer
guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/flashplayer$ md5sum flashplayer
146024c98752c9646275f1d67436107a  flashplayer
that should be no issue to anyone to download.

Anyhow, when flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.tar.gz can be hosted on us.archive.org - I presume a "flash_player_sa_linux.x86_64.xzm" could be hosted there as well?

Anyhow² … now to add all the other stuff as you recommended. Later. :D

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if you do not care about any terminal warnings that flashplayer works out of the box.
Warnings when starting:

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guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/flashplayer$ ./flashplayer 
WARNING: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING set and it is not UTF-8

(flashplayer:2344): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:31:48.711: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(flashplayer:2344): Gtk-WARNING **: 01:31:48.723: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
(running Port 5 XFCE 4.16)
and when exiting it adds these:

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(flashplayer:1810): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 01:31:18.369: instance with invalid (NULL) class pointer

(flashplayer:1810): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 01:31:18.370: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
but I presume these could be about the swf I tested it with.

It looks like so
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When you click it's Control/Play menu entry (or you press ^ + l [=Control l]) some flash games switch to a pause screen, while others still loop the current scene but mute the sound.

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And here also playing https://archive.org/details/the-great-giana-sisters
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Thanks donald, you are the best as usual. :hi:
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Post#19 by Rava » 10 Dec 2022, 04:42

Of course one first needs 021-libgtk+libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33.xzm to be activated.
Then I created a symlink to the flashplayer binary in $PATH:

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guest@porteus:/usr/local/bin$ ls -o flashplayer 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 43 2022-12-10 05:24 flashplayer -> /mnt/sda5/bin/linux/flashplayer/flashplayer*
and used that for opening swf files by creating that MIME type connection:
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and thus you can directly start any flash game from your file manager (here: using thunar XFCE 4.16) and also not see any warning issues . :)
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