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* {| cellpadding="4"|-|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big}}|[https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/ '''Official Releaserelease'''] (Windows) :* [https://download.unstable.life/static/Flashpoint%208.1%20Ultimate.7z Flashpoint 8.1 <br><small>Includes both Ultimate] ([https://download, Infinity and Core versions.unstableRead our overview for details.life</staticsmall>|-|colspan="3"|<hr/Flashpoint%208.1%20Ultimate.7z.torrent Torrent]) >|- The full package, ready for use offline. ~345GiB download, ~468GiB(?) extracted. You'll want to use a download manager and the latest version of 7-Zip.:* |align=center|{{Icon|Win|Lin|Mac}}|[https://downloadgithub.unstable.lifecom/staticFlashpointProject/Flashpoint%208.1%20Infinity.exe Flashpoint 8.1 Infinitylauncher/releases Launcher] - 1.7 GiB extracted. Games download as you choose to play them. A minimalist build - not all games are available, only Flash games will work out-<br><small>Standalone builds of-the-box, and logos and screenshots must be downloaded separately (they will be downloaded automatically when a game is selected). Use the Upgrades launcher on the home tab to add the other tech and better images.GitHub</small>:* [https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/Flashpoint%20Core%205.7z Flashpoint Core 5.0] |- A lightweight copy of Flashpoint with one game per platform. If you want to learn the platform / tinker with it.|align=center|{{Icon|Lin}}* |[https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Linux_Support Linux Supportsupport] - <br><small>Datahub page about Linux support.</small>|-|align=center|{{Icon|Mac}}* |[https://githubbluemaxima.comorg/FlashpointProjectflashpoint/launcherdatahub/releases Flashpoint LauncherMac_Support Mac support] - Standalone builds of the launcher on GitHub<br><small>Datahub page about Mac support.</small>|}
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'''BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint''' is an ongoing [[Preservation projects|preservation effort]] for games designed in commercial web frameworks. Named after [[Flash]] (which Adobe says it will discontinue in 2020), the maintainers have preserved over 5659,000 games and animations since its inception. The full list of games is available via the [http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List "Game Master List"] on their wiki. Flashpoint covers games (and tools) and animations developed in Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave, Unity Web Player, Java Applets, Microsoft Silverlight, ActiveX, 3DVIA Player, 3D Groove GX, PopCap Plugin, HTML5, Superscape Viscape, Vitalize!, Authorware, GoBit Games Plugin, ShiVa3D, Hypercosm, and Pulse, with upcoming Burster, TCL and VRML support.
Flashpoint (and every game in it) was originally released as one gigantic download until a system was developed to download these games on-the-fly. The full download (which, upon completion, requires no further internet connection to use) 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.
==Download==
==Overview==
Flashpoint 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 to 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 Avast and AVG [https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Troubleshooting_Antivirus_Interference as they've detailed on the Datahub].
Flashpoint is available in several different versions:* <i>Flashpoint Ultimate<!/i> -The full package, ready for use offline. ~413 GiB download, ~480 GiB extracted. You'll want to use a download manager and the latest version of 7-Zip.==References==* <i>Flashpoint Infinity<references /i>-1.8 GiB extracted. Games download as you choose to play them. A minimalist build - not all games are available, only Flash games will work out-of-the-box, and logos and screenshots must be downloaded separately (they will be downloaded automatically when a game is selected). Use the Upgrades on the home tab to add the other tech and better images.* <i>Flashpoint Core</i>- A lightweight copy of Flashpoint with one game per platform. If you want to learn the platform / tinker with it.
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