FlexibleFactory

Some of our readers might have noticed a slightly downbeat tone to our recent posts, especially concerning everyone’s favourite web player! Here’s a more positive post to put the record straight.

Things have been a little quiet here at FlexibleFactory over the last year or so because the team have been busy with the launch of our new website over at TunaMedia Ltd.

Although we’ve kept the Flash content fairly discreet, it really deserves pride of place on the site. Without the Flash Player, this project would not have been possible. Even though we’ve been through a bumpy ride together, now that everything on the site is (quite literally) singing in harmony it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to radiotuna.com. Search thousands of free online radio stations by artist or genre… we’re pretty sure you’ll like it!

…and, despite the bumps and bruises, we still love you, Flash!

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.

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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