But yes, hopefully Adobe will release the source and specs. Then a converter could be made, theoretically.
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depending on what you need specs for, they're already released, the ABC for example is mostly specced and documented in the open
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should be wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Ad
plus a bunch of undocumented opcodes you have to guess but the shumway ppl already did this research
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Yeah but as whitequark said Shumway is dead and not complete enough to work for games.
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did they not have competent decompiler writers? admittedly this is what I failed on myself but my powerlevel was lower then
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> many SWF features are not yet implemented. Tracking all the missing features is not a goal at this time
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swf != abc, swf is a file format from hell while abc is a bytecode embedded in a huge complicated struct embedded in swf
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but yeah either way it looks like getting it to work reliably is a major piece of work so I agree on this
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actually it does, AS has the the same numerical semantics as JS so that's one source of overhead removed
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I didn't think HTML5 canvas supported the basic graphics operations that Flash did...?
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JS doesn't seem like the hard part, there are plenty of transpilers and interpreters and so on.
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