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How to Use Adobe Flash Player in 2023

Local SWFs

The easiest way to play Flash files that you have locally on your computer is to use Adobe's official projector program, which is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. You can also open direct links to SWF files on the Internet by clicking File => Open in the projector's menu.

For Windows PCs:

The easiest option is to use this browser that comes with Flash Player. Just download and extract the ZIP file, then run Basilisk-Portable.exe. A web browser will open - navigate to the Flash content you want to view, and it should play just fine!
To install Flash Player for another compatible browser such as Internet Explorer, Waterfox Classic, or Pale Moon, you can use the Clean Flash Installer. This also works for programs like gam

In this brief guide, I will share what I've learned about archiving live webpages and recovering deleted webpages using various archive services.

Before you start

I highly recommend installing the Web Archives extension in your web browser (Chrome, Firefox). It provides quick access to archive services and search engine caches.

Overview of archive services & caches

Wayback Machine: Best and largest webpage archive. You probably already use it. Wayback Machine is the only archival service that also performs automated crawling, so its coverage is much better than other archives. See usage tips on Wikipedia.
Archive.today (also known as Archive.is): A mid-sized service that takes

	# SWF scanner by nosamu
	# Dumps a CSV file with the filename, width and height (in pixels),
	# and AS3 flag of each SWF in the current folder.
	# Requires Flasm: http://www.nowrap.de/flasm.html

	import os
	import shutil
	import subprocess
	import re
	import csv

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	from urllib.request import urlopen
	from urllib.parse import quote
	import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
	import sys

	def read_xml(f):
	it = ET.iterparse(f)
	for _, el in it:
	el.tag = el.tag.split('}', 1)[1] # strip all namespaces

	function saveFile(fileUrl, mimeType) {
	var fileName = fileUrl.split('/').pop();
	fetch(fileUrl)
	.then(response => response.blob())
	.then(blob => {
	var link = window.document.createElement("a");
	link.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob, { type: mimeType });
	link.download = fileName;
	document.body.appendChild(link);
	link.click();

	@ECHO off
	SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
	SET RUST_LOG=warn,ruffle_core=debug,avm_trace=trace,symphonia_bundle_mp3=error
	SET ARGS=%*
	SET "ARG1=%~1"

	IF "%ARG1:~0,3%"=="202" (
	SET "BUILD_PATH=Old Desktop Builds\Nightly %ARG1%"
	SET ARGS=!ARGS:%ARG1% =!
	) ELSE (

	import sys
	import requests
	import re
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

	ISSUES_BASE = 'ruffle-rs/ruffle/issues/'

	def get_issue_progress(issue_url):
	htmlResponse = requests.get(issue_url)
	soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlResponse.text, "html.parser")