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

[Rava]

Has anyone already created an older x86-64 browser module (preferable a Firefox) for playing flash games like in the olden days? That is able to run under Porteus 4.0 or 5.0.
And is such a module available for downloading?

I know Ed_P mentioned such a thing many moons ago, he creating such a module for one or more of his grand-kids (when I recall that detail right), but I never saw any such upload.

[Ed_P]

This what I use for old flash games.

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[Desktop Entry]
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=74262#p74262
Name=Games
Comment=Play Adobe Flash .swf game files
Exec=/mnt/sda6/Users/Ed/"My Webpages"/Games/flashplayer
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/flash-player-properties.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name[en_US]=Adobe Flash Games
StartupNotify=false
Categories=GTK;Game;

I also use this.

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#!/bin/sh
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=74262#p74262 - donald
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=81892#p81892 - burdi01
# https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?p=81895#p81895 - ncmprhnsbl
# ignisdownloader - evergreen

OPTIONAL="/mnt/$DRV/porteus5.0/Optional"
GTK="gtk+2-2.24.32-*.xzm"

function Title() {
  echo -en "\033]0;$1\a";
}
Title "Flash Games"

# Colors                          # ignisdownloader.sh
WHITE="\e[1;37m"                  # https://techstop.github.io/bash-script-colors/
CYAN="\e[1;96m"                   # Regular   - \e[0;**m
PURPLE="\e[1;35m"                 # Bold      - \e[1;**m
BLUE="\e[1;94m"                   # Underline - \e[4;**m
YELLOW="\e[1;93m"                 # High Intensity - \e[0;9*m
GREEN="\e[1;32m"
RED="\e[1;31m"
BLACK="\e[1;30m"
BOLD="\e[1m"
CLR="\e[0m"

# Color definitions               # ups.sh
txtbld=$(tput bold)               # Bold
rst=$(tput sgr0)                  # Reset
function Bold() {
  echo -e $txtbld"$1"$rst "$2"; 
}

if [ ! -e /mnt/live/memory/images/$GTK ]; then
   echo toor | sudo -S activate $OPTIONAL/$GTK > /dev/null 2>&1 &
   sleep 1
fi

cd /mnt/$DRV/Users/Ed/My?Webpages/Games/
g1=8_bubbleshooter
g2=bubble-shooter-3
g3=space_invaders

echo -e "$BOLD" "$YELLOW" " ***Flash Games ***""$CLR"
echo
echo -e "$BOLD" "1." "$CLR$CYAN" "$g1""$CLR"
echo
echo -e "$BOLD" "2." "$CLR$CYAN" "$g2""$CLR"
echo
echo -e "$BOLD" "3." "$CLR$CYAN" "$g3\n""$CLR"

read -p "Select 1, 2 or 3: " Nbr
if [ -z "$Nbr" ] || [ "$Nbr" == "0" ]; then exit; fi >2

eval Game='$'g$Nbr.swf 
nohup ./flashplayer $Game > /dev/null 2>&1 & 
disown 
echo " " 
echo -e "$BOLD" "Hope you have fun."
sleep 2 
exit

To ensure some favorite flash games didn't disappear I downloaded their .swf files. Not for distribution rather for personal use.

[Rava]

I presume you use the newest available "./flashplayer" from Adobe?

[Ed_P]

My files are dated 2019.

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guest@porteus:/mnt/nvme0n1p7/Users/Ed/My Webpages/Games$ ls -oh flash*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 guest 15M Sep 23  2019 flashplayer*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 guest 15M Oct 15  2019 flashplayer_32_sa.exe*
guest@porteus:/mnt/nvme0n1p7/Users/Ed/My Webpages/Games$ 

[Rava]

here do I get the Linux flashplayer?

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root@porteus:~# getmod -s flashplayer
root@porteus:~# 

[Ed_P]

From the link donald posted: Opera 64 (lite version) (Post by donald #74262) Which at this point I couldn't find the link to the standalone module.

archive.org may help.

And this: https://www.dolldivine.com/how-to-run-flash-player

[ncmprhnsbl]

this might be of interest to you flash addicts:
https://ruffle.rs/#
and
https://ruffle.rs/demo/

[Rava]

I tried it via the archive.org link and downloaded he newest version I could find:

https://archive.org/download/flashplaye ... _64.tar.gz

But unfortunately the extracted binary itself only gives a segfault:

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guest@porteus:/7/bin/linux/flashplayer/29_0_r0_171%2Fflashplayer29_0r0_171_linux.x86_64$ file libflashplayer.so 
libflashplayer.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=afa2e730e136df27d52bb8af2ede6e717884103e, stripped
guest@porteus:/7/bin/linux/flashplayer/29_0_r0_171%2Fflashplayer29_0r0_171_linux.x86_64$ chmod a+x libflashplayer.so 
guest@porteus:/7/bin/linux/flashplayer/29_0_r0_171%2Fflashplayer29_0r0_171_linux.x86_64$ ./libflashplayer.so 
Segmentation fault

The usr/bin/flash-player-properties works but is of no help whatsoever.

tried this

this might be of interest to you flash addicts:
https://ruffle.rs/#
and
https://ruffle.rs/demo/

next.
At least Palemoon seems not to be compatible with https://ruffle.rs/demo/ - I tried several of its demos and it all looks like so:

When clicking its (i) info button on top right it looks like so

[ncmprhnsbl]

At least Palemoon seems not to be compatible

yeah, it needs firefox or maybe chrome
try https://ruffle.rs/#downloads > desktop, linux version.. extract it, execute the 'ruffles' binary, opens a file selector seeking a .swf

[Rava]

yeah, it needs firefox or maybe chrome
try https://ruffle.rs/demo/ > desktop, linux version.. extract it, execute the 'ruffles' binary, opens a file selector seeking a .swf

I can not even open https://ruffle.rs/demo/ > desktop via PM.
*jumps behind a train* *jumps out of basement window* etcetera pp.

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I looked into the source code of https://ruffle.rs/demo/ and there is nohit for "desktop" nor for "linux".

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But https://ruffle.rs/#downloads works, giving me this
https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/rel ... _64.tar.gz
.... not all is lost on the western front. Maybe.

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guest@porteus:/7/bin/linux/flashplayer/ruffle-nightly-2022_12_06-linux-x86_64$ ./ruffle 
./ruffle: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
guest@porteus:/7/bin/linux/flashplayer/ruffle-nightly-2022_12_06-linux-x86_64$ ldd ruffle  |grep found
	libssl.so.3 => not found
	libcrypto.so.3 => not found

For now only 2 libs missing.

[ncmprhnsbl]

I can not even open

sorry.. wrong link.. should be: https://ruffle.rs/#downloads or more directly : https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/rel ... _64.tar.gz

which you have found...
seems to be requiring newest openssl (3.0) which isn't in slackware yet.. bummer

[Rava]

seems to be requiring newest openssl (3.0) which isn't in slackware yet.. bummer

Indeed:

using my lsxzmgrep it gives me only older versions of libssl.so, e.g. this one:

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guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/porteus/5.0/x86-64$ lsxzmgrep . libssl.so
lsxzmgrep V2020-12-19
[…]
>./updates_core/20220924/001-core.xzm
/usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.1

No libssl.so.3 though:

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guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/porteus/5.0/x86-64$ lsxzmgrep . libssl.so.3
lsxzmgrep V2020-12-19
guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/porteus/5.0/x86-64$ echo $?
0

Seems I should make lsxzmgrep use the return value of grep. The above search with no results should not return with a "0".

Same fail for libcrypto.so.3

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guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/porteus/5.0/x86-64$ lsxzmgrep . libcrypto.so.3
lsxzmgrep V2020-12-19
guest@porteus:/mybin/linux/porteus/5.0/x86-64$ 

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I try getting openssl (3.0) via https://pkgs.org/ and hopefully the GLIPC of that works for Port 5 when using a different Linux than slackware.
*Arnie voice* "I'll be back"

Added in 3 minutes 59 seconds:
https://opensuse.pkgs.org/15.4 - openssl-3-3.0.1-150400.2.4.x86_64.rpm should work, it requires

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libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.15)(64bit)

while Port 5 uses libc-2.35.so

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It seems to work.

My module is 7.61 MB (7979008 bytes):

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root@porteus:/mybin/linux/ruffle# ls -o ruffle_nightlyV2022_12_06_+_libopenssl3-3.0.1-150400.2.4.x86_64-stripped.xzm  |cut -c 19-
7979008 2022-12-06 04:44 ruffle_nightlyV2022_12_06_+_libopenssl3-3.0.1-150400.2.4.x86_64-stripped.xzm
root@porteus:/mybin/linux/ruffle# lsxzm ruffle_nightlyV2022_12_06_+_libopenssl3-3.0.1-150400.2.4.x86_64-stripped.xzm 
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/ruffle
/usr/lib64
/usr/lib64/engines-3
/usr/lib64/engines-3/afalg.so
/usr/lib64/engines-3/capi.so
/usr/lib64/engines-3/loader_attic.so
/usr/lib64/engines-3/padlock.so
/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.3
/usr/lib64/libssl.so.3
/usr/lib64/ossl-modules
/usr/lib64/ossl-modules/legacy.so
/var
/var/lib
/var/lib/pkgtools
/var/lib/pkgtools/douninst.sh
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/libopenssl3-3.0.1-150400.2.4.x86_64
/var/lib/pkgtools/scripts
/var/lib/pkgtools/setup
/var/lib/pkgtools/setup/tmp
/var/log
/var/log/packages
/var/log/pkgtools
/var/log/pkgtools/removed_packages
/var/log/pkgtools/removed_scripts
/var/log/scripts
/var/log/setup

Thanks ncmprhnsbl for the heads up on ruffle.ruffle
Now to pull of the spiderwebs off old saved swf files and pull them out of years untouched folder of some backup - or search for new ones on the web to test.

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BTW, the only thing I stripped out is the licence file of libopenssl3-3.0.1-150400.2.4.x86_64

[Rava]

downloaded 24Puzzle.swf from https://archive.org/download/flash-game ... lashGames/ : (after activating my module)

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$ ruffle 24Puzzle.swf 
WARNING: lavapipe is not a conformant vulkan implementation, testing use only.

[donald]

The stand-alone flashplayer 32,0,0,270 running in 5.0-x86_64-xfce-4.16

add /usr/lib64/
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.33

[add /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libpixmap.so = less gtk warnings when run from terminal.
...you wont see gtk warnings by right-clicking > execute the binary, so add it or not.]

All files can be extracted from gtk+2-2.24.33-x86_64-2.xzm

..sound is working.

btw - no browser necessary..

[Ed_P]

Do you have a module users can download donald? Or links to the files you use?