Technologies to Add

This is a list of web game technologies that we hope to support in the future. If you'd like to help us add one of these technologies to Flashpoint, please join the #plugin-chat channel in our Discord.

For plugins which have been successfully added to Flashpoint, see Technologies to Add/Added Technologies.

Please add new technologies in alphanumeric order.

Here are some places to find more technologies to add to Flashpoint:

• mozdev.org - Windows PluginDoc
• GitHub Gist - a list of almost 4000 plugins
• K-Meleon Extensions Central
• Windows95.com - Web Browser Plugins (backup here)
• Plug-in Plaza
• Inline Plug-ins* (archived version)
• Another list
• Plug-in Gallery & Demo Links (oyamada)
• Plug-in Gallery

*Because this website does not support TLS 1.2, it cannot be opened in modern browsers. It can still be opened in browsers such as Pale Moon, or using Microsoft Edge's Internet Explorer Mode.

This page lists two kinds of plugins: platforms, as well as other technologies such as alternate VRML viewers and compatibility assistants such as Pipelight.

Unsorted

Technologies to be researched and then given dedicated sections.

Platforms

Adobe SVG Viewer

• Adobe Wiki article (stub)
• Archival website

Downloads

• SVG Viewer Installer (taken from Wayback Machine)
• Add-on support for ICC colors (taken from Wayback Machine)

Examples

• SVG Test (archived)
• Chart (archived)
• Hollywood (archived)

Problems Encountered

• The plugin does not load when it is not installed to the Program Files folder.
• The plugin in Basilisk loads, but some functions do not work.

Notes

• Works with Windows 98 to XP, but may require compatibility mode in newer Windows.
• Some of the .svg files that are in the Adobe examples can be easily opened in Inkscape without any distortion, but not in the browser.

Atomic 3D / Neutron Viewer

Downloads

• Download page (archived)
• Different versions

Examples

• Lost 3D model of a nuclear power plant

Problems Encountered

• This plugin crashes in the Basilisk browser.
• When attempting to play animations at the Neutron Viewer, it asks to download files from the Atomic3D website, which no longer works.

Castle Game Engine Web Plugin

• GitHub page

Downloads

• Prebuilt binary and example

Examples

The download in Downloads contains an example.

Problems Encountered

• Can't find C:\Program on PATH.

• Exception "Exception":

windres failed, cannot create Windows resource

Further notes

No precompiled builds are available yet. As such, you may have to download any of the following files to compile the plugin:

• Lazarus (it may be best to download the version with the highest version number)
• Free Pascal (included with Lazarus, but linked to separately just in case)
• Castle Game Engine

Chime

• Wikipedia article

Downloads

• Installer and demos (Archived)

Examples

The installer page links to demos.

Problems Encountered

• Crashes a majority of the time. The Basilisk and Flashpoint cache must be cleared.
• .pdb files do not show in Netscape

Google Native Client

• Chrome Developers page
• Wikipedia page

Downloads

• Slimjet 10, Used by oshaboy for testing
• GCC and Clang toolchains for Google Native Client (should be useful because some NaCl have been lost in binary form but still exist in source code form)

Examples

• Bomberclone
• Bastion Demo (some assets are lost)
• SuperTux
• Doom

Problems Encountered

• "[6708:11872:0517/190417:ERROR:nacl_process_host.cc(215)] DuplicateHandle() failed" on Chromium 40
• .nexe and .pexe files get downloaded by the browser, but don't start.
• Slimjet 10 can't see the PNaCl compiler plugin when running through a proxy. (See chrome://components) (That was because the compiler was not in the user folder)

Grail

Wikipedia page

Downloads

• SourceForge

Examples

• Official demos

Problems Encountered

• "TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:" error when trying to run Grail Solved.
• "An exception occurred during applet loading : exceptions.TypeError: compile, argument 1: expected string without null bytes, string found" error on all official Grail demo applets, except for Clocks, Play A Sound File, Demos Similar to Common Java Demos, Show Grail's Applet Exception Handling, Calendar and A Little Joke. Grail can't decrypt gzipped HTTP packets.
• "An error occurred in a callback function : audiodev.error : no audio device" error if trying to play a sound in Play A Sound File. It's possible the audio files don't exist where they originally existed.

Notes

Old versions of Python and Tcl/Tk are required. These may work:

• Python 1.5.2
• Old version of Tcl/Tk
• All-in-one packages: Grail.7z, Grail but More Portable

HTML+TIME / XHTML+SMIL

Wikipedia page

About

HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was a proposal by Microsoft for including animation and interactivity in HTML.

Downloads

No independent download, added to Internet Explorer in IE 5.5 and removed in IE 9. X-UA-Compatible does not appear to work

• DLLs from Windows XP + Internet Explorer 6 are installable: mstime.dll for time2, datime.dll for time
• IE11 on Windows 10 with DLLs installed and registry entry seems to have issues with transparency.
• IE6 via Utilu on Windows 10 bolds some stuff weirdly.
• Ad demos are apparently older HTML+TIME syntax and only seem to run on IE5.5. Can datime.dll be unblocked on Win10 and syntax added to ensure its inclusion into the page? How large would a rewrite into XHTML+SMIL be?

Examples

• Ludicrum demos
• Animation demo
• Audio and video demos

Registry entry

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Default Behaviors]

# C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll
"VML"="CLSID:10072CEC-8CC1-11D1-986E-00A0C955B42E"

# C:\Windows\system32\datime.dll
"TIME"="CLSID:476c391c-3e0d-11d2-b948-00c04fa32195"

# C:\Windows\system32\mstime.dll
"TIME2"="CLSID:17237A20-3ADB-48ec-B182-35291F115790"

# ???
"ANIM"="CLSID:B1549E58-3894-11D2-BB7F-00A0C999C4C1"
"DA"="CLSID:B1549E58-3894-11D2-BB7F-00A0C999C4C1"

igLoader

• Website (archived)
• myGamer article

Downloads

• Installer (archived)

Examples

• Platypus (archived)
• Tennis Elbow 2006
• Webbed (archived)
• Bubble Blitz (archived)
• Official showcase (archived)

MrSID

Wikipedia article

About

An image compression plugin mainly used for orthophotos.

Downloads

• Window on the UK, Window on the Universe (Volumes 1 & 2) and the plugin installer

O3D

Wikipedia article

About

A proposal by Google for a standard 3D API for the Web. WebGL supplanted it. Google eventually wrote a WebGL version of O3D, but conversion is not automatic and the Beach demo was not converted

Downloads

There are no known found trustworthy downloads, although source code exists. https://www.zhaodll.co/n/20130417/158957.html has been tested and works, but the website is sketchy.

Examples

• Sample packs

Opal Player Plugin

Product info page (archived)

About

Appears to be for interactives. Potentially doesn't support Vista.

Downloads

• cal.com (archived, doesn't work, FTP)
• opal.pascocountyfl.net (archived)

Examples

• Bowie example (archived)
• opal.pascocountyfl.net (archived)

Panda3D Plugin

About

Wikipedia article

Downloads

• Installer and demos
• Latest runtime

Examples

• Open directory
• Pac-Bat (tested and working on 2019-07-21)
• Dice in a Stone Box
• A3P - Acquire, Attack, Asplode, Pwn! (tries to install Python and crashes)

Problems

• There is a huge number of runtime components that are downloaded and installed on demand. They are listed here, and are available from this open directory. (backed up at Flashfreeze (request login))

QuickTime VR

About

Wikipedia page

Downloads

• Apple - Support
• OldVersion.com

Examples

• Panorama of Lake Louise Boathouse nr1
• Cabinets & Pods
• Rewind example
• Babylon 5 example (archived)
• Another Babylon 5 example (archived)
• Yet another Babylon 5 example (archived)

Problems Encountered

• Uses the Windows system directory and is not portable.

Notes

• The latest version available on apple.com requires Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Service Pack 1 MFC.
• Both Apple Application Support and QuickTime are required. Registry entries point to their locations.
• Registry files: apple.reg, quicktime.reg
• Not all data in quicktime.reg is likely needed.
• In Flashpoint, Basilisk is currently configured to disable QuickTime by default to avoid conflicts.
• Some of the npqtplugin.dll files may interfere with other video/audio plugins or built-in behavior. It may make sense to have the QuickTime plugin available only when viewing a QuickTime curation. Basilisk's built-in MIME type configuration dialog can also be used to choose what plugins are used for different types of content.

Scratch

• Website
• Wikipedia article

About

An online block-based virtual language, currently based upon Blockly, then previously Flash, and before that, Java (Squeak 2.8 for the offline editor). While it is possible to curate Scratch games in Flashpoint using converters and packagers, they are not in their original form.

Downloads

• 1.4 Offline Editor: Windows, Mac, Linux
• 2.0 Offline Editor: Windows, Mac
• 3 Offline Editor: Windows, Mac

Examples

• Wodunne's World
• Snail Platformer v1.4

Problems Encountered

• Scratch 2 and 3 do not have Linux versions. However, it may be possible to run their respective Windows versions in Wine or use a web version.

Sense8 WorldUp

Downloads

• Terasoft website
• Sense 8 website (archived)
• https://discord.com/channels/432708847304704010/516027726851735632/785218816711983104 Files from the Wayback Machine]

Examples

• Some WorldUp examples
• Glasbead
• Glasbead desktop version

Tulip 3D

• Exstream website (archived)
• Tulip Software website (archived)

Problems

It's unclear whether these two links reference the same plugin or two different plugins with Tulip in the name.

• Exstream: 3D does not play unless the proper codec is available for the (usually? always?) .asf file. The codec in use appears to be 0x75 VoxWare Metasound. The downloads available for this codec do not appear to work directly. ffmpeg can process it but it sounds terrible. MPlayer, when given its binary codecs and the -ac voxware option, sounds excellent. However, the binary requires a file to be present in SysWOW64. We may need to reencode the .asf files via MPlayer (and then ffmpeg if MPlayer cannot output an .asf file).

TWF Viewer/TWF OpenGL Viewer

Downloads

• TWF Viewer download page

Examples

• Official Samples

Problems Encountered

• Netscape crashes after loading the plugin.
• Basilisk plays the file but shows nothing.
• There might be an issue with the OpenGL dlls, which are supposed to be located in c:\windows\system.

Visviva Animation Player

An interactive animation player, available as a web plugin and a standalone player.

Downloads

• http://web.archive.org/web/20070214114303/http://www.visviva.com:80/download/webplug/VaeCtrl.CAB Internet Explorer plugin]
• Netscape plugin
• Standalone player

Examples

• Official gallery

Problems Encountered

• vaengine.dll seems to use both WSOCK32 and WININIT, but the primary download is via WSOCK32. Flashpoint currently does not support proxying WinSock.
• DirectPlay is required.

WildPockets

• Official Website (archived)
• WildPockets Wiki

Downloads

• Source code

Examples

• SAS: Zombie Assault 3D (Trailer)

WildTangent Web Driver File:WildTangent Web Driver Logo.png

• The SDK is usable from Java, JavaScript or VBScript.
• Pages typically launch wthost.exe, which itself uses an ActiveX plugin
• When producing a combined webdriver+Java config, be sure to only have one classpath entry.

Downloads

• WildTangent Web Driver installer (2002 version)
• WildTangent Web Driver installer (2004 version)

Problems Encountered

• FlashpointProxy.dll needs to be attached to wthost.exe. (it's currently attached to webdriver.dll)
• A newer version, recommended by WildTangent Discord, doesn't seem to support WinInet.
• Most games will need MS Java.
• Antiviruses hate anything WildTangent related.

Examples

• SDK samples
• StreetSafety Lesson

X3D

Wikipedia article

Downloads

• List of players

Examples

• Examples: Scene Archives for X3D
• FreeWRL examples
• instantreality examples

Problems Encountered

Flux Player 2.1 loads indefinitely under TheWorld 3.5.03.

XVR

Downloads

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160513043225/http://client.vrmedia.it/XVRPlayer.cab

Examples

• Introduction to the XVR technology: the basic framework
• The Tower
• Franco Tecchia's personal projects page
• Franco Tecchia's public projects page
• Demos

Notes

This sample, linked from personal projects, reportedly has Flash <-> XVR interaction. This might not be supportable in Flashpoint unless Flash can be added to Flashpoint Secure Player or an NPAPI version of XVR is found.

Other technologies

Pipelight

About

A browser plugin that allows Windows-only NPAPI plugins to run on Linux.

See here for more information.