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|developer = BlueMaxima<br/>Flashpoint Team|version = 6.1"Preservationware"

|platform = Windows, <br/>Linux <small>(experimental)</small><br/>macOS <small>(experimental)</small>

|target = Web gamesgame servers

|license = MIT(Launcher)|source = [https://github.com/FlashpointProject/launcher GitHub](Launcher)

'''BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint''' is a an ongoing preservation collection of effort for games which were usually only playable via a designed in commercial web browserframeworks. It has Named after Flash (which Adobe says it will discontinue in 2020), the maintainers have preserved over 14,000 games saved since its inception and covers . The full list of games is available via the following[http: //bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List "Game Master List"] on their wiki. Flashpoint covers games (and tools) developed in Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave, HTML5, Unity Web Player, Java Applets, Microsoft's Silverlight, Microsoft's ActiveX, 3DVIA Player, 3D Groove GX and , PopCap Plugin games. The full list of games is available via the [http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List Game Master List], and HTML5.

There are two versions available:* Flashpoint Ultimate - Download (and every game in it) was originally released as one big file (140GB+) and thus no internet connection required afterwards* Flashpoint Infinity - Download the basic application (450MB+) and get the gigantic download until a system was developed to download these games on-the-go fly. The full download (which, upon completion, requires no further internet connection to fetchuse)has since been retroactively titled "Flashpoint Ultimate", and the "lite" version was given the name "Flashpoint Infinity". When the limitations of Launchbox started to show, a discrete launcher was developed.

:* [https://archive.org/details/Flashpoint6 Flashpoint 6.1 Ultimate] ([magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9dfc1b1c1f913533136be9462dca81d6b3159359&dn=Flashpoint%206.1%20Ultimate.7z&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80 Torrent Magnet]) - The full package, ready for use offline. 114GB download, 130GB extracted. You'll want to use a download manager and the latest version of 7-Zip.:* [http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/Flashpoint%206.1%20Infinity.zip Flashpoint 6.1 Infinity] - Games download as you choose to play them. A minimalist build - not all games are availalble, only Flash games will work to start, and low quality icons with no screenshots. Use the Upgrades on the home tab to add the other tech and better images. 450MB download to start.:* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qoQc32vQ7nnTmYMle1uCpluYenY61Biy Flashpoint Core 3] - A lightweight copy of Flashpoint with one game per platform. If you want to learn the platform / tinker with it. 575MB download.

* [httphttps://bluemaximaunstable.orglife/owncloud/flashpoints/Flashpoint%206.1%20Infinity.zip Flashpoint 6.1 InfinityHYpZ4O4JMAebfjR Experimental Linux version] - Games download as you choose to play them. A minimalist build - not all games The maintainers are availalblelooking for Linux testers, only Flash games will work to start, and low quality icons with no screenshotssee [https://bluemaxima. Use org/flashpoint/datahub/Help_Wanted_List the Upgrades second item on the home tab to add the other tech and better images. 450MB download to startthis wiki page] for more info.

* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qoQc32vQ7nnTmYMle1uCpluYenY61Biy Flashpoint Core 3] - A lightweight copy drive/folders/1aimlroob9KdZWOKEWVLg1y0zFVxn6jnD Test builds of Flashpoint with one game per platform. If you want to learn the platform / tinker with it. 575MB download. * [https://unstable.life/owncloud/s/HYpZ4O4JMAebfjR Experimental Linux versionLauncher] , for non- They're looking for help with testing this versionWindows Launcher binaries (including Darwin, see [https://bluemaximai.e. macOS).org/flashpoint/datahub/Help_Wanted_List this wiki page]Requires users to manually point to the Infinity repository in the config files.

Flashpoint started began on December 26th , 2017, a little while after [https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/ Adobe announced] it was ending support for Flash at the end of 2020, as an attempt to preserve as many Flash games and applications from the early 2000s and on wards from being forgottenonward as possible before the cutoff point. While it's not technically an "emulator" The focus has since shifted to all proprietary plugins as some Flash games can be played directly by simply downloading they face the files and running them, there are also a majority same risk of Flash games designed with <abbr title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</abbr> protections that require it to "talk" with the server it's on to verify it can be played or some games need to be online in order to be used, what Flashpoint does is provide an environment where these games can be played by either mimicking the host server it was on, or by providing external files that where originally sent to the game by the host serverobsoletion.

Originally aimed at preserving FlashFlashpoint is not a conventional emulator; none of the frameworks it targets is being emulated which is why it requires users to have the original platforms these frameworks were on. (It's also why Linux doesn't have a lot of the frameworks that Windows does.) Many games also use some form of copy protection by connecting to a server to test if a game can be played, thus requiring an internet connection for it has now shifted to preserve playable work. Flashpoint is a server emulator that repeats and relays the responses and files that were originally captured at the time the game was preserved. This causes problems for all webgamesAvast and AVG [https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Troubleshooting_Antivirus_Interference as they've detailed on the Datahub].

==External LinksResources==*BlueMaxima's Articlesarticles:

* [https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Main_Page WikiThe Datahub], their wiki