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I have for years had lying around a few really great .swf files, maybe a dozen of them. Now that I wanted to show one of them to a friend, it wouldn't play.
Yes, I do know that all Flash support ended long ago, and all sorts of Flash files have been discouraged, due to security risks. Web browsers have no support for them any more. But I have been using dedicated .swf/.flv players, that would work offline. Now they just display a large icon, or report "Error: input string was not in a correct format."
I was naively believing that I would be able to play my old .swf files 'forever', given an offline, standalone player and local .swf files. Apparently I was wrong.
I have no idea what has changed. In the program directory of my standard "MPC-HC" video player, not a single file has been changed for three years. The rather anonoymous "SWF File Player" has files unchanged since 2013. Maybe both depend on some .dll that has been removed, or registry settings that have been invalidated.
Is there no way whatsoever for me to play the old .swf files nowadays? If I boot up an old XP installation, with no network connection, would it work on that one? If not, how the elephant has Adobe managed to kill even that? I most certainly would like to have the files available on my Windows 10 machine, so if anyone can point me to some truly standalone player for .swf that hasn't been butchered (and won't be) by Adobe, please tell me where I can find it!
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Try Adobe has left a building[^]
More than likely this'll open most adobe legacy formats. Those formats are the one's that used to be supported but are no longer being maintained.
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Nope. It plays .flv, but not .swf.
(From the description, it looks as if they look upon Flash as a pure video file wrapper, ignoring the interaction function of .swf files.)
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Adobe Flash Player - Debug Downloads
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Thanks! That one seems to do it!
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You're welcome!
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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That tool is clearly a way of playing an explicit list of Flash based games. If you've got a Flash game not on the list, you may submit it for inclusion, and then you can download it into the player. That is something else than playing .swf files locally.
And then: "478GB download, 532GB when extracted"??? What the mammoth??? You can select a 'compact' version that 'only' fills 2 GB initially, but every game new game is downloaded into some sort of internal database or storage, so they recommend setting off at least 10 gigabytes for the player.
Jeez!
(The flashplayer suggested by Gerry Schmitz, which successfully does play .swf files, is less than 16 megabytes.)
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I must confess I never used it myself, but saw a positive comment on AlternativeTo.
Shows that you can't trust such "recommendations" 
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(good to know  )
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I've not tried it, but a coworkers shared this recently:
GitHub - ruffle-rs/ruffle: A Flash Player emulator written in Rust[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes, it seems to work - but it seems like the developers have no idea about how Windows user interfaces are made! A file explorer window opens; that is it. But it works, at least for the .swf files I've got (the documentation says that several features are not yet implemented, but apparently, my files do not make use of those features).
I wish they had a better UI, but as it seems to do the job, I will keep it as an alternative. Thanks.
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("Windows cannot find 'cargo'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."  )
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Brilliant album: Árstíðir - Hvel
It is not often I find an album that I just listen to again, and again, ...
Espen Harlinn
Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.Edsger W.Dijkstra
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Not bad!
Went to Iceland last year, what an enchanting place.
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Ate a lot of fish - right? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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No, I would have remembered that!
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I've had the option once, but the smell ... well let's suffice to say my gym socks smells one h*** of a lot more appetizing ...
Espen Harlinn
Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.Edsger W.Dijkstra
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Quote: Went to Iceland last year, what an enchanting place.
We would like to go there too 
Espen Harlinn
Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.Edsger W.Dijkstra
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I've bookmarked it after you posted it and listened to it yesterday.
Certainly something I'll listen to more often 
Going to recommend to some friends as well
You might like Sigur Rós, although that's a bit more dreamy I guess.
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Quote: You might like Sigur Rós, although that's a bit more dreamy I guess.
Dreamy, but so far I like what I'm hearing - thanks 
Espen Harlinn
Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.Edsger W.Dijkstra
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I implemented a special feature for one of our customers in the current generation of one of our products. A couple of weeks ago they asked to have it added to the older generation as well. No problem, right?
Wrong.
I've backfit about 80% of the code changes, and I just realized something. The older code base uses K&R braces. The new code base has been reformatted for Allman braces. I've been copy/pasting bits of code for the last several days, and just noticed.
I'm doomed.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Brace yourself!
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