DOS ain't dead - GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released

GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 28.09.2007, 12:56

> GNASH-related info follows (for Japheth's eyes only)
> :cool:
>
> Okay, so I'm on Vista right now, and trying to run
> GNASH-Win32 0.8.1
> ("fourth alpha release") in DOSBox 0.72 via the latest HXRTD.ZIP needed
> MSVCRT.DLL (grrr), and even that didn't work (doh). So, I'm at a loss to
> how useful it could be (unless someone wants to recompile statically ...
> be my guest).
>
> Of course, the real problem (besides too many useless posts, oops)
> is that Flash is proprietary (like many things :lookaround: ), so GNU has
> quite a ways to go to match it. I honestly don't see the appeal, why would
> anyone even want to use it?
>
> I tried finding examples to test, but it seems some people don't want you
> to download 'em directly (ahem, Adobe? No save option??). You can get
> around that, but I chose to focus on publicly available examples. Anyways,
> I ended up having to View Source in the web browser, copy / paste
> the .SWF file's URL, then
> wget it and then manually
> run fltk-gnash.exe on it (usually unsuccessfully, the compatibility
> ain't too great right now, even most of the Win32 menu options don't really
> work).
>
> http://www.kirupa.com/developer/isometric/3dmovement.htm
> http://www.webwasp.co.uk/flash-sample-movies/18-snake-game/snake.php
> http://www.imaginaweb.ch/index.php?pageN=archives&lngg=english
> http://www.macloo.com/examples/flash/animation/martini.htm
>
> These four examples seem to work fine in GNASH. To be more convenient,
> I've .ZIP'd 'em up for
> download
> here (46k) so you don't have to waste time doing the above-mentioned
> workaround just to get a decent example or two. So, if you get GNASH
> running (after recompile?) in pure DOS, try these, they should work. But
> don't expect all the latest / greatest Flash 9 crud to work too because it
> won't.
>
> P.S. GNASH-0.8.1-WIN32-AGG-FLTK-FFMPEG.ZIP is 7,676,886 bytes! (Dialup
> users beware!)

Thanks a lot for this info! However, it's DOS386 who is/was interested in GNASH. Since you three have driven him away with your bad responses, I just wanted to make you feel bad because of that.

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GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - DOS386, 11.09.2007, 07:51 (Announce)
- GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - rr, 11.09.2007, 15:12
  - GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Rugxulo, 27.09.2007, 01:20
    - GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Japheth, 27.09.2007, 10:57
      - GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Rugxulo, 27.09.2007, 23:45
        GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Japheth, 28.09.2007, 08:23
        GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - rr, 28.09.2007, 09:47
        GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Rugxulo, 28.09.2007, 12:36
        GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Japheth, 28.09.2007, 12:56
        GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Steve, 28.09.2007, 13:17
        GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Japheth, 29.09.2007, 08:23
        GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Steve, 29.09.2007, 12:04
        GNASH 0.8.2 for Win32 released - DOS386, 01.05.2008, 05:38
- GNASH 0.8.1 for Win32 released - Steve, 12.09.2007, 10:31
- GNASH 0.8.2 for Win32 (+ HX ?) released - DOS386, 02.05.2008, 21:30