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Lightspark
Open-source Flash Player implementation in C++ with ActionScript 3 support.
Clean-room Human-led wipFacts
- Original
- Adobe Flash Player (1996)
- Platform
- Web
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Community project since 2009 what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- LGPL-3.0
- Team
- lightspark
- Started
- 2009
- Runs on
- Linux, Windows
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Download it from the official repository or website. No original files are needed.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by lightspark. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
Sources
Flashpoint Archive
Web games and animations (Flash, Shockwave, Unity Web and more)
Large preservation archive and launcher that keeps web games and animations from defunct browser plugins playable offline.
oldweb.today
Historic web browsers
Runs emulated vintage browsers in your own browser, connected to web archives so old sites appear as they once did.
Ruffle
Adobe Flash Player
Flash Player emulator in Rust that runs SWF content natively and in browsers through WebAssembly, so old Flash games and animations keep working.
The Emularity
In-browser emulators
JavaScript loader that embeds browser emulators such as MAME and DOSBox ports in a web page; it powers the Internet Archive's in-browser software.