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* <i>Flashpoint Core</i> - A lightweight copy of Flashpoint with one game per platform designed for curation (preserving games).
Update with new flashpoint name and links
{{Infobox emulator
|title = BlueMaxima’s FlashpointArchive
|logo = Fp_logo.jpg
|logowidth = 150
|developer = BlueMaxima<br/>The Flashpoint TeamProject
|version = {{Version|Flashpoint}}
|active = Yes
|platform = [[Emulators on Windows|Windows]]<br/>[[Emulators on Linux|Linux]]<small>(experimental)</small><br/>[[Emulators on macOS|macOS]] <small>(experimental)</small>
|architecture =
|target = Web game servers
|compatibility =
|accuracy =
|website = [httphttps://bluemaximaflashpointarchive.org/flashpoint/ bluemaximaflashpointarchive.org/flashpoint]
|prog-lang =
|support =
}}
'''BlueMaxima’s FlashpointArchive''' (formerly BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint) is an ongoing [[Preservation projects|preservation effort]] for games and animations designed in commercial web frameworks. Named after [[Flash]] (which was discontinued in 2020), the maintainers have preserved over 78190,000 games and animations since its inception. The full list of games is available via the [httphttps://bluemaximaflashpointproject.orggithub.io/flashpoint-database/datahub/Game_Master_List "Game Master Listarchive database"] on their wiki. Flashpoint covers games, animations and tools 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, Pulse, Burster, TCL and VRML, with support for all web technologies to add in [https://bluemaximaflashpointarchive.org/flashpoint/datahub/Technologies_to_Add this list] and (natively) Scratch possibly coming in the future.
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.
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|[https://bluemaximaflashpointarchive.org/flashpoint/downloads/ '''Official release''']<br><small>Includes both Ultimate, and Infinity and Core versions. Read our overview for details.</small>
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|[https://bluemaximaflashpointarchive.org/flashpoint/datahub/Linux_Support Linux support]<br><small>Datahub page about Linux support.</small>
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|[https://bluemaximaflashpointarchive.org/flashpoint/datahub/Mac_Support Mac support]<br><small>Datahub page about Mac support.</small>
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Flashpoint 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 onward as possible before the cutoff point. The focus has since shifted to all web browser technologies as they face the same risk of obsoletion.
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://bluemaximaflashpointarchive.org/flashpoint/datahub/Troubleshooting_Antivirus_Interference as they've detailed on the Datahub].
Flashpoint is available in several two different versions:* <i>Flashpoint Ultimate</i> - The full package, ready for use offline. 1.48TB 40TB download, 1.76TB 486TB extracted. You'll want to use a download manager and the latest version of 7-Zip.
* <i>Flashpoint Infinity</i> - 1.9MB download, ~1-3GB installed; filesize increases with use.
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