Question Any way to still play dowloaded games which require flash?

[icm95]

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I have three older games on my Windows 10 PC which no longer work since Flash has shut down. They are offline games which were bought and downloaded from Shockwave last year. When trying to open them I get an error message saying I need version 8 or higher of Flash to play. Is there any way at all I can still get them to work?

 

[Brian Boru]

Are you aware Flash is officially dead since the start of the year, and Adobe is trying to ensure it gets a deep-down burial? Be careful if you do use it, it's a big security hole—consider using a virtual machine or maybe Windows Sandbox.

There's a lot of activity going on to save Flash content, both online and local. Have a look at:

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

Flash Game Archive – Preserve Flash Gaming

www.flashgamearchive.com

Flashpoint Archive

A community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

bluemaxima.org

To use webpages which still use Flash:

Ruffle - Flash Emulator

Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle targets both desktop and the web using WebAssembly.

ruffle.rs

https://get.webgl.org/webgl2/enable.html

Lightspark

The Lightspark project

lightspark.github.io

 

[Brian Boru]

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