In this page, we will go over about Adobe AIR.

Adobe AIR (codenamed Apollo) runtime enables developers to use HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash software, and ActionScript to build web applications that run as standalone client applications without the constraints of a browser. This supports .AIR files for installation. Adobe AIR's logo history falls under Adobe's Flash Player logo history, having similar logos. Adobe AIR was discontinued the same time that Flash Player was discontinued, January 1st, 2021.

You can download the most recent version of Adobe AIR here, or install older versions.

If you need to uninstall it, open Command Prompt or Run in Windows, use "path to AdobeAIRInstaller.exe -uninstall" and enter. Otherwise, use this Microsoft blog post.

In this page, we will go over about Adobe Director.

Adobe Director is very similar to Adobe Flash Player, but they are both completely different things. Instead of SWF files, it uses DCR files. It can also use Apple Inc's Quicktime, used to support media, and the The 3DO Company's 3DO Console Engine. Adobe Director's last version was 12, being released on February 11th, 2013. The product would be later discontinued in a range from February 1st to March 14th of 2017.

One of the few differences between Director and Flash is that Director supports plug-ins, or Xtras. This is possible by a tool named Adobe Director's XDK (Xtra Development Kit), which is a C++ SDK. With each new version, calls new changes important for these plug-ins.

Adobe Director has standalone apps that has DCR files pre-loaded (example).

You can download the most recent version of Projector Skeleton for Adobe Director here for using DCR files onto a Windows app. It will ask you once you open the application, to put in a DCR file. Make sure, if possible, that the plugin is in the same folder (directory) as the DCR file. You can download a example DCR game here.

In this page, we will go over about Adobe Shockwave.

Adobe Shockwave is mostly Adobe Director, however it's a browser plug-in like Adobe Flash. It also supports DIR, DCR, DXR files. It can also help companies build multimedia apps. The lastest version is 12.3.5.205 released on April 9th, 2019. Adobe discontinued Shockwave on the same day since.

There's a full version and a slim version you can install (recommended to have Windows Vista or 7). These versions are both 12.3.5.205. If you need older versions, click here.

If you wanna use flash in a browser or in a app, follow these instructions.

If there is Flash Player already installed, use the Uninstaller for Windows, otherwise use the Uninstaller for Mac OS X - 10.6 or higher, or the Uninstaller for Mac OS X - 10.4 & 10.5.

After that, run a installer from the table of installers depending on your device with the version you want. The versions suffixed with “pep” are PPAPI (WebKit and Blink), the ones with “ax” are ActiveX (Trident and EdgeHTML) and the ones without suffix are NPAPI (Gecko and Goanna). Follow the instructions on the installer that you chose. Reminder that most major browsers such as Google Chrome, FireFox and many more, will no longer accept any flash version.

Next, find a browser that allows Flash plug-ins, you can visit this page to find some.

In the "SWF Installation", an already installed app is waiting for you. However, you'll need a SWF file (Shockwave Flash) to run. I left a SWF game here for you to try out.

If you are having errors that say cannot create, or find flash.ocx, follow these steps.

1. If you haven't installed Flash Player yet, please click here.

2. Find in Windows Explorer: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash, and find the file Flash.ocx (may look different depending on which version flash is). If you can't find it, look in instead: C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash, System32, or SysWOW64.
a. If you still can't find Flash.ocx anywhere, you may have to download it, then put it in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash.

3. Copy the file, then rename said copied file to flash.ocx, DO NOT RENAME OR MOVE THE ORIGINAL FILE, and paste it in both: System32 and/or SysWOW64. [The flash.ocx file should look like flashversion.ocx (for example flash9.ocx) ]

Try the program, or screensaver, out now to see if it works.

Thanks to Djracem on Reddit for contributing to this page.

AMD adrenalin drivers 22.5.2, and later, are causing Flash to only display a colored background associated with the background of Flash Player. To not roll back pre-22.5.2, disable "Hardware Accel" on Macromed\Flash and on mms.cfg. Run, and make sure Command Prompt is ran as administrator, and then copy the Batchfile code below.
mkdir "%WINDIR% \SysWoW64\Macromed\Flash"
NUL & echo DisableHardwareAcceleration "WINDIR% \SysWoW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg"

To use a working version of Flash Player, you would have to find browsers that support the Flash Player plug-in. But since the Flash shutdown of 2021, major browsers like Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and more does not support the flash player plug-in. You can see some of the browsers that support the plug-in here.

Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player for Android are no longer supported. You can download them using these APK files and make it work in 2022.

These tools can be used for Flash Player.

Browser games are not that popular due to the 2020s having modern and widely used browsers not supporting the original Flash Engine. Either websites went to HTML5 games or replaced their engines with Ruffle or others.

Newgrounds. This is a special one as they allow any users to post content. They replaced their engine with their downloadable one.

There's tons of generic flash games, like the following:
CrazyGames
Armor Games
Kongregate
Poki
Addicting Games
NuMuKi

If you wanna support high quality games, you can so on Steam.

Not much Flash games are on apps, mostly after 2020.

Flashpoint, it contains a ton, mostly flash games.
Archive.org, it contains tons of SWF files for the App installation .

Ruffle

These ones are for computers, if you use Android, click here for the browsers or click here for the actual flash engine.

Ruffle
FlashPoint