If you have an old Flash-based screensaver or game on your Windows PC, it probably stopped working in January of 2021. This is because Flash-based Windows applications usually rely on the Flash ActiveX control, which is also used by Internet Explorer. That means Flash’s removal from browsers like Internet Explorer…

Mounting ISO images in Mac emulators like SheepShaver and Basilisk II is easy. But what if the CD-ROM image you downloaded came as a BIN/CUE, not an ISO? Before you can use a BIN/CUE image with your Mac emulator, you will need to convert it to an ISO image. Most…

If you dig deep enough into a web game site, you never know what you might find. And on March 31, 2019, Flashpoint volunteer eientei95 decided to try his luck on Agame.com. Now, if you’ve played a Flash game in the past few years, you’ve probably seen the Agame.com logo…

Anthony Kleine, known online as Tomysshadow, has amassed expert-level knowledge of the Adobe/Macromedia Director Movie file format. In our recent text conversation, he gave me a great rundown of this knowledge. Because the details were so fascinating to me, I decided to condense and edit his messages into a set…

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with the folks over at Flashpoint to preserve web games. One of the questions I hear most often is: What is the difference between a Flash game and a Shockwave game? I’ve adapted the following article from a series of chat messages…

Analyzing Eastern Mind: What’s the Deal with the Furoshiki? Some Eastern Mind players have noticed that the game’s Furoshiki displays weird and seemingly inconsistent behavior when clicked. Watch the clip below to see what I mean: Luckily, the Mac version of Eastern Mind was…