Are you not excited to launch "a web server, a redirector, and a launcher" embeded with each of those state of the art pieces of engineering parked somewhere on your system, through wine? How exciting!... That's like playing casual hide-and-seek-surprise-butt-sex-in-the-dark with fleece johnson back in the 90's!
>Flashpoint launcher doesn’t support anything but Windows just yet. You can either download the Games as you play them or download the full package of size 288GB with 36,000 games.
Jesus christ... Only god knows what's in there...
Good point.
If you have the skills to use linux you have the skill to just download the swf and run your own sandboxed webserver and sandboxed browser. Wine is not required and their launcher is for normies only, it's totally not required.
The only problem is access to flash player + older browser, they do provide a kind of flash player plugin that is mostly flash compatible, which again, as a linux user you will know how to sandbox.
It's totally a windows only issue.
Why would I want to bother to do any of that in the first place is the real question here
288GB of mostly pointless and total crap if you ask me
I would rather waste my time coding a donkey kong with haxe. And I probably won't.
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How can you post something so fucking stupid? If you don't want to, don't. What is the point of posting that?
The archive, on the one hand, is partly nostalgia for nerds partly and important historical archive. On the other, if there is a game that you liked, you download just one game and run that.
I downloaded one game I liked because I want to recode it in a more useful game engine and could not remember the exact game mechanics. It was really interesting documenting the game mechanics and without the original as reference I couldn't have guessed at the deviously great mechanics built into the game.
Why do all forum conversations end up in a cul de sac of stupidity?
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