Flashpoint Archive
Flashpoint Archive (formerly BlueMaxima's Flashpoint) is a web game and animation preservation project that allows for the usage of more than 160,000 rich web applications that are no longer possible to play online after all major browsers removed native support for NPAPI-enabled plugins, most notably Adobe Flash. History
The project was initiated by Australian Ben Latimore in 2018, initially as part of a separate project called Archive Team. The project has developed a launcher for playing the archived games and animations, which when including all games and media takes up about 1.48 terabytes. It works by simulating the Internet, "tricking" the files into thinking that they are being played on the original site, so they can be loaded and experienced. He stepped down as leader of the project in 2023 in order to move on to other projects. Non-Flash media
While named after and mostly focused on Flash content, media using other discontinued web plugins are also preserved, such as Shockwave, Silverlight, Java, and Unity Web Player, as well as deprecated software frameworks such as ActiveX. 91 distinct web technologies are currently listed as being preserved. Legality
The legality of the project has been described as "unclear" but creators who do not want their games included can ask for their removal. Versions
There are two versions of Flashpoint: Infinity and Ultimate. Infinity downloads files on-demand, while Ultimate contains all games and animations pre-downloaded. Until Flashpoint 12 there was also Core, created for preservation and thus only featuring a limited selection of content. References

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Digital preservation
Web archiving initiatives
Adobe Flash
Windows multimedia software
Free and open-source software