FlexibleFactory

Over at tunamedia.co.uk, we’ve released a demo of Flash movie playing Shoutcast streams using the new Sound API features available in Flash Player 10. Take a look.

Using the new features of Flash Player 10, it is now possible to load files directly from the users drive.
Click anywhere to load your image into the Flash Player, and experience the faster, smoother rendering of Flash Player 10 with this psychedelic mandala we knocked together.

Flash Player 10 release candidate required.

The new FileReference class in Flash Player 10 opens up a whole new side to web applications, where the barrier between the local file system and the network has (to some degree) been torn down.

Here’s an example of how to load MP3 files from the local file system. I’m sure you’ll appreciate why this is pretty cool…

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One weekend in November last year, I decided to port the wonderful Sinclair ZX Spectrum of olde to Flash using the Flex SDK, Flash Develop + an eclipse plugin from OSFlash which does the donkey work of porting Java to Actionscript.

I never blogged about it at the time because let’s face it, blogging is hard work and takes up valuable time. But now someone else has released one I am being urged to bring mine into the light of day.

The ZX Spectrum was my first computer and was given to me by my father at the age of around 11. It therefore has a very special place in my heart.

I started with an open source implementation of the ZX Spectrum written in 1997, Jasper 1.1 by Adam Davidson & Andrew Pollard.

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Enhanced with better depth management, Bevel and DropShadow filters on the cable rather than pseudo plastic and reparenting of non moving cables to a cacheAsBitmap parent.

source to follow…
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Here’s something I’ve been working on using the component helper script: