Posts Tagged ‘ ActionScript ’

First Realtime Synthesizer in Flash

  • July 9th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

The creator over at e-phonic.com seemingly has created the first realtime synth in Flash with AS3.0. Realtime in the meaning that it creates the produced sound completely by itself and not relying on predefined samples. He used the ByteArray and the Loader class (Loader.loadBytes) based on an idea and first experiment from David at Robots [ READ MORE ]

So when do you think native graphics acceleration is due for Flash?

  • July 5th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Player 9.0 brought a big leap of speed and all kinds of changes and optimizations with it. But these mainly happen under the hood only. While Flash 8 came up with the bitmap level manipulation stuff, Flash 9 doesn’t come with any groundbreaking new features that are visible to the surface [ READ MORE ]

mdm Rebus – Turning AS3/Flex2 applications into .NET2 executables

  • July 1st, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

mdm is working on a new tool named Rebus that can turn AS3 (and Flex2) files into .NET2 executables. It’s still in beta but registered users can download and test it. I’ve did a quick test and compiled my SWNameGen with Rebus and it went surprisingly smooth and flawless. It will offer some new and [ READ MORE ]

FC64 – C64 Emulator in Flash

  • May 12th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

Everybody has probably by now blogged about this but Claus Wahlers and Darron Schall are writing a Commodore C64 emulator in ActionScript 3.0! It is still to early to tell how this will take shape but things are looking good so far and by the current state the basic ROM works already. Try it and [ READ MORE ]

Sound Object for future Flash Player

  • March 19th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

If you’re one of the users who would like to see something done about Flash’s neglected sound situation in future then I recommend you to visit the Adobe Labs forum for Flash Player 8.5! there is a thread going on about a sound object request in Flash 8.5+. Wouldn’t it be cool to really program audio [ READ MORE ]

Flash Game Programming Wiki opened

  • January 9th, 2006
  • Posted in Dev

I am happy to announce the opening of the Flash Game Programming Wiki, a Wiki that is dedicated to the development and programming of games with Flash! The idea for it raised a while after I discovered the Game Programming Wiki, a site that is dedicated to general game programming but doesn’t mention Flash or [ READ MORE ]

Flash Racer Blog

  • August 23rd, 2005
  • Posted in Dev

A development blog about a racing game done in Flash! Some interesting posts there, one about AI for computer controlled racing cars. It seems they will update their blog as development progresses so I will put it on my watch list. I still keep the idea in the back of my mind about writing a [ READ MORE ]

Alcon – ActionScript Logging Console

  • July 25th, 2005
  • Posted in Dev

Alcon is a lightweight external output console for Flash ActionScript that allows developers to view debugging information without relying on the Flash IDE. SWF files can be debugged and monitored no matter if they are in the web browser, Flash Player or a standalone executable. While that Alcon tries to keep inclusion into projects as [ READ MORE ]