Technologies to Add/Added Technologies

For technologies which are still to be added, see Technologies to Add.

It may also be worth including the versions older plugins like Java were added in for completion's sake.

Unsorted

Technologies that were added but not given dedicated sections due to minimal research.

Note: This section is incomplete.

Added in Flashpoint 8.1

Pulse3D

https://www.sandyressler.com/about/library/weekly/aa122000a.htm

https://lostmediawiki.com/Pulse_3D_(lost_3D_web_plugin_content;_1999-2001)

Pulse3D was previously called "Platinum VRML."

Downloads

• https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pulse3d.com:80/players/english/PulsePlayerNsWin.exe

Available from MICD2001_11_NR2.iso here: http://archive.org/details/MICD200111/

https://bluepload.unstable.life/p3d.zip

Installer: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/516027726851735632/705092816220717086/PulseStuff.zip

Netscape version: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/516027726851735632/705175471926673468/PulseNetscape.zip

Examples

http://www.learningfriends.com/download.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20030705212152/http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/protozoa.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20040204091717/http://launch.pulse3d.com/harvard/index.htm

https://archive.org/details/Pulse3DPWSPWCPW3Files

https://archive.org/details/www_02_2002

pulse3d.com CDX search

pulsenetwork.com CDX search

dotcomix.com CDX search

muppetworld.com CDX search

barbie.com CDX search

Nutrisystem.com CDX search

Notes

Browser plugins (at least the NPAPI one, didn't check ActiveX) seem to look for Pulse by using ShGetFolderPathA to find CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE | CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES if that function exists (and if not, looking at a Registry entry).

Some files seem to need a command sent to the plugin (for example, Fozzie needs "play obj=Dummy01 pkg=assets/fozzie/Package2.pws transition=0.30 heading=yes behave=joke"). The NPAPI version of the plugin looks like it relies on LiveConnect, which might not be supported in Basilisk.

Added in Flashpoint 8.2

VRML

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

Downloads

A list of some VRML players: https://www.vrinternal.com/docs/links.html

Cosmo Player: https://cosmo-player.en.softonic.com/download

OpenVRML: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openvrml/files/

Examples

*; Also contains links to other places containing VRML content.

• Internet Archive Search: subject:"VRML": https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22VRML%22
• A list of chat worlds and games at VR Internal (on the left sidebar): https://www.vrinternal.com/docs/links.html
• A Little Bit About Me: http://members.bex.net/jtcullen515/AboutMe.htm
• All VRML worlds from Archive Team's Geocities scrape (1,985 .wrl files total) https://flashfreeze.submissions.unstable.life/geocities.7z
• Andrew's VRML Games and Puzzles: http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/vrml/
• Floops archive, contains episodes 7, 10, 20, 24, 28, 29, 31, 35, 36, 38, 41, 42, 46, 47, 52, 53 and a special: https://github.com/Sgeo/floopsArchive
• FreeWRL examples: http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/examples.html
• Google search for VRML, limited to*: .ac.uk addresses, altervista.org addresses, .edu addresses, gainos.org addresses, VRML archives
• Lots and Lots of VRML 1: https://bluepload.unstable.life/lotsandlotsofvrml1.7z
• The Haunted House (created by Nekochan member nongrato): http://web.archive.org/web/20190704003702/http://sgizone.co.nf/haunted/
• Web3D Amusements* (The English version of VRML GAME. It has VRML programs not in the other version, which is in Japanese): http://web.archive.org/web/20191017225236/http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~kekenken/main/index.html
• VRML GAME*: http://web.archive.org/web/20191016182344/http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~kekenken/main/3d/game/game.htm
• VRML resources for the 3E15 lecture - 14 October 1998*: http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/wwwvrml.dir/public-vrml/VRMLLECTURE/
• vrml.sgi.com: http://web.archive.org/web/19980113075629/http://vrml.sgi.com/intro.html

Problems Encountered

• Flux Player 2.1 is stuck loading under TheWorld 3.5.03
• Too many players with variations: Which ones should get included?
• Live3D: Crashes on page navigation resolvable by using in Netscape 4
• Cosmo Player: Struggles with large worlds. Direct3D renderer (the default) seems to cause dropped polygons (in Mod Gun and Beat Monk Bash at least) and drifting cameras (in Mod Dance Party) and wrongly rendering textures (in Dilbert animation I Think Therefore I Am). Have been unable to get software renderer to work. OpenGL renderer (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CosmoSoftware\CosmoPlayer\2.1.1\renderer = OPENGL) seems to work fine on one system, needs testing before any decision to hardcode.
• Blaxxun Contact 4.4: If a world has sounds but a sound has not played yet, low FPS. This seems to occur in a full install too.
• Blaxxun Contact 4.4: Some worlds rely on RealPlayer G2. Include in Blaxxun config? Example world: http://www.e-spaces.com/portfolio/ssg/vrml/main.wrl

Tcl Plugin

• https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webtech/1997/12/junk/index.html
• academic paper
• Japanese presentation

Downloads

• http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/download.html
• https://fossil.e-lehmann.de/tclplugin/tree?ci=tip
• https://fossil.e-lehmann.de/tclplugin/raw/installers/msi/Tclplugin-4.0.msi?name=5daace0ca3aa9cf7b3a52fde29d5b18923c46e3d

Examples

See https://bluepload.unstable.life/tcl-info.txt for many examples.

Problems Encountered

The Tcl plugin may not load unless these conditions are met:

1. The page with the Tcl embed has to be the first page loaded by the browser (not counting about:home).
2. The page must be allowed to complete loading without scrolling the page or moving the mouse over the embed area.

Tested in latest K-Meleon (non-Goanna) version on 2019-08-17.

Burster

Downloads

• https://web.archive.org/web/20150209071910/http://geta3d.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38&Itemid=18
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160421163457/http://geta3d.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=18

Examples

• Pong Remake
• Dead Cyborg
• geta3d.com

Added in Flashpoint 10.0

There were multiple other plugins added to 10.0 that are not listed here, as they never were added to this page.

Adobe Atmosphere

Wikipedia page Logo Discussion

Downloads

• Latest version
• Standalone player

Examples

• http://www.1ec5.org/3d/worlds.html
• http://www.1ec5.org/3d/mingerworld/
• http://www.wedding2004.net/photography/
• http://amasci.com/atmos.html
• http://www.trucker2000.net/directory.html
• http://www.it-quadrat.de/atmosphere/
• https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.canoma.com/*

Problems Encountered

• The Javascript used by Galleries doesn't seem to work in newer IE. Curation guide might need to specify replacing the gallery's Javascript with code to create the <object> tag. This appears to because of a use of VBScript. VBScript can be reenabled via registry, or it might be cleaner to replace the JS. VBScript and galleries work fine as-is in Flashpoint Secure Player.
• Some older Atmosphere worlds don't work in the plugin. Newer worlds (including galleries) won't work fully in the standalone player.
• Low FPS. Can seemingly be fixed by changing "Throttle when not active". Hardware acceleration can be added by editing a text file, but it results in oddities in the tic tac toe world (http://www.it-quadrat.de/ttt/ttt3d/ttt.aer)
• Cannot point plugin directly at an .aer file, an <object> tag must be used. (This is an original Adobe Atmosphere limitation)
• Some worlds automatically close chat. Some other worlds put useful information in the chat. The chat open/closed preference is saved, so worlds with chat should probably have some code to open chat embedded.
• Excessive caching may be a possibility.
• Stairs are tricky to climb. Could be related to missing avatars? Might want to include default avatar in htdocs.

Alambik Player

Player

Alambik website

Examples

The-Demo

Problems Encountered

• It doesn't work with the proxy, loading from the live web. This was fixed by adding FlashpointProxy.dll (twice).
• It requests data —‌ specifically, a version number — from the registry. It gives a popup, but clicking "No" allows the application to play. Fixed by using FSP in Basilisk.
• Using FSP with the standalone player gives "The process failed to start" as a popup, and "An error occured while activating the Mode." in the logs. Fixed with a config file tweak.
• It requests some tracking files. We will use dummy files.
  • It doesn't recognize the dummy files www.alambik.com/cgi-bin/checking and check.ipcheck.com/cgi-bin/checking. Not really that important.

Support Pack

Details on how to add the Support Pack are in this Discord message.

Curation Tutorial

The tutorial is located at Alambik Curation.

AXEL Player

Downloads

• Browser plugin
• Standalone player
• Download links for all known versions
• Plugin files and modified Basilisk-Portable.ini package

Examples

• Arrow
• Anatomy
• Axel Player Acceptance Test
• Gallery

LiveMath

Plugin page

Examples

• Concurrent Force Systems examples
• distancemath.com example

Rebol

Wikipedia article

A plugin for Rebol, a cross-platform programming language. The plugin exists for both Internet Explorer and Netscape-based browsers, but may be better tested in the former. It seems like most embeds have been written expecting one or the other.

Downloads

• Internet Explorer plugin

Examples

• Official demos

Support pack

• [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/516027726851735632/785357102863482940/rebol_pack.7z Internet Explorer version package, no logo)

Xara Plugin

Downloads

Plugin downloads (archived)

Examples

• Official gallery

Added in Flashpoint 10.1

BitPlayer (BitMagic)

bitmagic.com (archived)

About

BitPlayer is a standalone player able to play BitMagic content, which is based on Flash or Shockwave. It downloaded games (BitGames) or BitFlicks (animations) from the internet on a daily basis. Advertisements were downloaded as well. All of these were stored in BM files, which contain an SWF for Flash-based content, or a DCR for Shockwave-based content.

There were around 2000 BitMagic files in its short life, of which we have only been able to save a little less than 500.

History

bitmagic.com.au, bitmagic.org, content.ao.bitmagic.com, download.ao.bitmagic.com, download.us.bitmagic.com, www.bitmagic.com

You might have to search for BitMagic for most of these links.

Michiel Frackers Interview - Co-founder, Co-founder flash website, animators website, more info, linkedin profile, about book by cofounder, more info 2, website were player could be downloaded, blog talking about various inside happenings

Downloads

BitMagic should be good for the next release. However, items currently cannot be fully curated in the Curate Tab, since they can't be played directly, so no screen shots, etc. via the Curate Tab.

• Current support build
• Discord post

Examples are included in the download.

Tools

• bitmagic_converter - Extracts the Flash or Shockwave file embedded in a BitMagic file and shows metadata such as name, creator/note, and edition (usually a date, presumably the date it was published)
• minimagic_extractor - Extracts BitMagic BM files from Minimagic EXEs. Minimagic was a way of packaging up a BitMagic animation as a standalone executable.

Curation Tutorial

The curation tutorial is available at BitPlayer Curation.

Added in Flashpoint 11.0

o2c

Downloads

• Official download page
• o2c files and installer package
• Package with another player

Examples

• Projektowanie schodów
• StairCon promocja

Notes

OCX files are used, but trying to run these as an ActiveX Control gives a "Registry Failed".

HotSauce

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSauce

About

A 3D viewer for MCF files, which are similar to sitemaps.

Downloads

• Plugin and viewer (viewer MacOS 68k or PPC only)
• Alternate download

Examples

• www.hdcity.com (archived, requires a multitude of plugins)
• mcf.research.apple.com (archived
• xspace.net CDX search
• mcf.research.apple.com CDX search

FreeHand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FreeHand (please note the article makes no mention of the plugin, but it appears to arise from that)

Also called Shockwave Graphics Player, or, like the other Shockwave plugins, just Shockwave.

Downloads

• DLL

Examples

All the sites with the icon here. Please note you have to click on the categories. These examples have been saved:

• • https://web.archive.org/web/19970727140308/http://www.inlink.com/~terryl/fairgounds.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/19990209093802/http://www.woodmagazine.com/cusserv/shockwave/horsehok.html

Problems Encountered

Sometimes throws this error:

All three buttons make the plugin stop working.

ThingViewer

• Looks like they're intended to be single-asset
• Some Javascript mentions possible sitelocks
• The installer installs plugins (ActiveX and NPAPI) and a standalone viewer

Downloads

• Latest version
• ThingMaker may be on this CD

Examples

• ThingWorld Football Games
• [https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.thingworld.com/* Wayback Machine www.thingworld.com search (filter by .tms)

Flatland Rover

Downloads

• Website
• Original website
• DLL

Examples

• xuriel
• Open directory
• xml.com example
• Sean's 3DML world
• Can You 3DML?

Squeak

• Old Scratch FAQ

Downloads

• Squeak 2.8 browser plugin downloads

D'Fusion @Home Web Plug-In

Official Website

About

An augmented reality plugin developed by a now-defunct French company, Total Immersion. Utilized the webcam.

Downloads

• Windows installer (Archived; version 2.30)
• Mac installer (Archived)
• Latest version of Windows installer
• "Full" Windows installer (has a prerequisite included; Archived; version 3.10)

Examples

• Example from Iron Man 2's augmented reality website (Archived; will not work due to unarchived needed files)
• Olympus Minisite (Archived; will not work due to unarchived needed files)
• Experience Pandora Minisite (Archived; will not work due to unarchived needed files)
• Imatech D'Fusion plugin demo
• D'Fusion plugin demo (missing certain files, will need reverse-engineering to get it to work)
• WisteriaHill D'Fusion plugin demo

Problems Encountered

• Failed to start D'Fusion Web. Curation-specific problem
• General problems with the D'Fusion installation Turns out a higher plugin version was needed
• D'Fusion dropping files in App Data Not a problem

Formula One/NET

Downloads

• Installer (needs otvdm)

Examples

• Mirror of original site with examples

Problems Encountered

• Formula One will sometimes say Invalid File, will only work with http://localhost in the launch command

ASAP WebShow/ActivePresenter WebShow

Downloads

• 32-bit installer
• DLL

Examples

• http://web.archive.org/web/19971009155257/http://www.spco.com/DEMO/asapshow.htm
• http://web.archive.org/web/19971009141506/http://www.spco.com/presenter/center/index.htm
• http://web.archive.org/web/19961218101129/http://www.spco.com/demo/wpwsdemo.htm
• http://wenix.bol.ucla.edu/webshow.htm

Problems Encountered

• Plugin files (.asp, .ap) don't show anything, but are recognized by the plugin.
• "Could not load the plug-in 'ASAP WebShow' for the MIME type 'application/x-asap'."
• Netscape stops responding.

X3D

Wikipedia article

Downloads

• List of players

Examples

• Examples: Scene Archives for X3D
• FreeWRL examples
• instantreality examples (archived)
• Castle Game Engine examples
• SwirlX3D examples

Problems Encountered

Flux Player 2.1 loads indefinitely under TheWorld 3.5.03.

Added in Flashpoint 12.0

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

mBed

.mbd

Examples

• [1]

Problems Encountered

• Apparently didn't work in Basilisk nor Netscape; possibly missing DLLs?

Sizzler

.sprite

Downloads

• https://web.archive.org/web/19961213011819/http://totallyhip.com/sizzler/sizzlerDL.html

Examples

• https://web.archive.org/web/19961213011618/http://totallyhip.com/hipstuff/AnimSamples.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/19961213011625/http://totallyhip.com/hipstuff/sizzsites.html

Problems Encountered

• Puts files in System32

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.

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.

XVR

Downloads

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

Problems Encountered

It needing http://client.vrmedia.it/XVR0131.pak (and other .pak) which is lost. (expect XVR0114.pak, XVR0116.pak and XVR0145.pak)

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. One example of XVR is added to Flashpoint as ActiveX platform.

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.

Upcoming

EMBLAZE

The error spam that EMBLAZE causes when audio is attempted to be played

.blz

Downloads

• https://web.archive.org/web/19961105062646fw_/http://www.geo.inter.net/ebz/dmo/dmomf.htm

Examples

• https://web.archive.org/web/19961105062639/http://www.geo.inter.net/ebz/dmo/dmoplg.htm

Problems Encountered

• Apparently doesn't like existing in a directory containing spaces Still broken even without spaces
• Files using audio cause a spam of error messages (see right side) Fixed using an ini change
• Crashes Netscape Wrong plugin version used
• Looking internally, the OriginalFilename is npblz16.DLL; perhaps it needs 16 bit? Yes, it needed to be run in 16-bit Netscape due to the aforementioned ini change
• Needs a change in flashpointvm to work once imported

Astound Web Player

Downloads

• 1.0 installer
• installers

Examples

• https://www.heartlight.org/worshipslides/index.html
• http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/oldconfer/html/pbl/cr.html
• Large list at oyamada

Problems Encountered

• White screen when embedded in Basilisk and Netscape.
• Examples link to the file directly without an embed, and when clicked in Basilisk and Netscape show text instead of playing the file using the plugin.
• Probably relies on the installed files in C:\gdapps\awp
• Requires 16-bit Netscape and the latest build of Winevdm to work.
• application/astound asn needs to be added to Apache's mime.types file.

Cyberworld Browser

Downloads

• http://web.archive.org/web/20010712085035/http://p2kmovie.warnerbros.com:80/game/downloads/P2K4AD9.exe
• https://archive.org/details/CyberworldAssets

Problems Encountered

• Most worlds utilize Flash, a config that enables Flash similar to ActiveX is needed.
• The browser has issues opening .borg links and specific urls, which makes some worlds unplayable. Fixed by adding required registries

HTML+TIME / XHTML+SMIL

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"

# C:\Windows\system32\lmrt.dll
"ANIM"="CLSID:B1549E58-3894-11D2-BB7F-00A0C999C4C1"
"DA"="CLSID:B1549E58-3894-11D2-BB7F-00A0C999C4C1"

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

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.

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, FPNavigator 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. FPNavigator's built-in MIME type configuration dialog can also be used to choose what plugins are used for different types of content.