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my findings!

old games, Flash weirdness, reverse engineering, software quirks and other things I spent far too long investigating.

here you’ll find notes and deep dives about old software, game clients, Flash, emulation, networking, and some other stuff. i dont write much often, but maybe you’ll find something useful?

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Getting Animal Jam Classic running on Linux was way weirder than I thought

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Animal Jam Flash Linux Reverse Engineering SmartFox

Animal Jam Classic is still alive in 2026, which is already kind of unusual by itself. The game is fundamentally Flash, still uses SmartFox, and WildWorks still updates it years after Flash disappeared from normal browsers. Why it’s unexpected is because they’ve since moved to Animal Jam: Play Wild (now called Animal Jam only), an Unity based recreation of the game STILL missing Adventures all of these years.