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New comment by Randomno in "Saying Goodbye to Asm.js"

Randomno — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:18 +0000

The P in PNaCl is Portable.

Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

New comment by Randomno in "Saying Goodbye to Asm.js"

Randomno — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:42:28 +0000

> (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through)

Crossbridge was its third and most recent name.

Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out.

https://github.com/google/pepper.js/

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:51:43 +0000

This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball

Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:32:47 +0000

Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:38:15 +0000

Yes this isn't clean-room. Though none of these decompilation projects have been resolved in court yet. re3 (GTA3/Vice City decompilation) developers were sued by Take Two but they settled out of court.

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:34:31 +0000

Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball

New comment by Randomno in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

Randomno — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:14:19 +0000

All the SWFs are archived (which is often not the case on Wayback). Just when the program is requesting to load one, archive.org is returning an HTML-wrapped file instead which fails to load. It would be quite easy to add to Flashpoint.

New comment by Randomno in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

Randomno — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:37:31 +0000

Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.

New comment by Randomno in "Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code"

Randomno — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:27:45 +0000

> It's not legal

Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.

New comment by Randomno in "Show HN: Awesome J2ME"

Randomno — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:10:50 +0000

One of the difficulties I had searching for J2ME resources is that the mobile equivalent of the JVM is called KVM (K virtual machine), so most of the search results are about Linux's Kernel-based virtual machine instead.