An old friend of mine from Argentina contacted me recently and showed off his work. I was impressed. 6kbytes.com integrates all your messenger accounts (MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, IRC) into one slick Flash 8 interface. And it’s all free. As far as i understood, communication is done via XMLSockets to a Jabber server that is used [...]
I just learned about Adobes “Mars” project via John Dowdell: Mars is the code name for a project developing an XML-based representation of PDF documents. Interesting. Reading the Mars FAQ on Adobe Labs, i found this little gem: Can an end-user create a Mars document? Anyone over the age of 18, or minors with parental [...]
In celebration of todays release of the Flash Player 9 for Linux beta, i finally updated the demo of FC64, our C64 emulator for Flash Player 9. Some time ago i implemented support for sprites and the lo-res bitmap mode, so quite some more games work on FC64 now, including Elite (see screenshot below – [...]
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The fine folks at gotoandplay.it recently interviewed Darron and me about FC64 – what it’s about, how we did it, and what our plans are. Go check it out!
Darron already blogged it: FC64 won Flashforward Film Festival in the Technical Merit category. Ohhh yeah!
I promised i show you the FC64 trailer that was shown at the ceremony, so here it is:
Did you ever write an image gallery or a game in Flash? Did it bother you to write rather complicated load queues to load lots of small files such as image thumbnails or game assets like tiles? Are you working with big text files and need a reliable way to compress/uncompress them to save valuable bandwidth?
I’m proud to announce FZip, a cute little Actionscript 3 class i’ve been working on together with Max Herkender that enables you to load standard ZIP archives and extract contained files while the archive is still loading.
Probably the most useful mashup application ever made:
Aggregates Flash video from the various video sites out there (YouTube, Google, etc) and plays it back seamlessly and fullscreen. Throw your TV out the window, sit back, watch and relax.
Adobe Flex 2 Language Reference, class Class:
“For example, if you are using an MXML compiler to generate SWF files, you would create an embedded class as follows:”
[Embed(source="bratwurst.jpg")]
public var imgClass:Class;
So our Flash Commodore 64 emulator project, FC64, got nominated for the Flashforward Film Festival recently (read my previous post). The 60 finalists are given the opportunity to submit a 45 second trailer showcasing the work, that will be shown live in front of 1000 people at the ceremony.
I won’t spoil it so i won’t show the trailer here (you gotta wait until after the Flash Film Festival ceremony or better yet attend it to see it). What i can do though is – in the spirit of open source – show you the source code
