AMD64 Flash Port

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nukem996 · Post by **nukem996** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:41 am

I just setup my new AMD64 machine and after researching for awhile I found out that flash does not work all that well on an AMD64 machine. In order to get it to work you have to have a 32bit version of your browser and use the emu libs. I think that we should all put a feature request into maromedia for an AMD64 version. This way we can show them there is a strong interest.

To do this go here.

If you get any word back from macromedia on the status of the AMD64 port please post it here.

nuke

Corona688 · Post by **Corona688** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 6:42 am

I'm not holding my breath, but I'm putting in the feature request.

himpierre · Post by **himpierre** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:17 am

Done.

cheers
t.

vwj · Post by **vwj** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:34 am

put in a request

grts

Chryse · Post by **Chryse** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:55 am

Good idea!

Done

Ciao
Pit

schlehmil · Post by **schlehmil** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:59 am

done!

tmavr · Post by **tmavr** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:06 pm

every little bit hepls....

Kiff · Post by **Kiff** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:27 pm

also done... hope they respond to it! (not like ATI)

LaNcom · Post by **LaNcom** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:32 pm

I did, too - but I wouldn't hold my breath. If I'm not mistaken, the Flash 7 port for Linux was done by SUN for JDS originally, and if there's noone throwing money at Macromedia to do a port right now, I think we'll have to wait 'till 64bit x86 systems have at least 20-30% market share...

Anyway, if you want to use Flash 7 now (with a 64bit browser) and use Konqueror (or look for another reason to switch to KDE), check:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=216959

Jimeh · Post by **Jimeh** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:49 pm

I've been lurking around these fourms for a while in preperation for my first installation

but I thought I should just let you know I also put in a feature request for a 64bit Flash Player on Linux...

Expect to see more of me very soon, I'm sure you can't wait

nukem996 · Post by **nukem996** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:07 pm

I know its a big company and I shouldnt hold my breath and all but I am a programmer. Flash doesnt seem to use any asm or anything if I were to guess a recompile would be all they need to do. Thats why I think theres still some hope. Maybe if enough people request they will pass it onto the developers who will realize its easy and do it one after noon.

ketjow · Post by **ketjow** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:22 pm

request sent. maybe it'll help

Bad_Byte · Post by **Bad_Byte** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:55 pm

request sent

Bad_Byte · Post by **Bad_Byte** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:58 pm

Kiff wrote:also done... hope they respond to it! (not like ATI)

Heh.. I suspect that some one with a background in politics wrote that response

ReeferMac · Post by **ReeferMac** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:15 pm

Done.

- Mac

ShadowHawkBV · Post by **ShadowHawkBV** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:07 am

I'm not sure why I did since I can't stand Flash crap, but I put in the request.

Alexj76 · Post by **Alexj76** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:57 am

Hi.

Its funny but who you are requesting???
Gentoo or Macromedia?

I will send a requst too, any requst will help i think...

But its also a need for: Shockwave, a good 64 Bit Java Runtime ,and 64 Bit mozilla pluggin suport...

Corona688 · Post by **Corona688** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:36 am

Alexj76 wrote:Its funny but who you are requesting???
Gentoo or Macromedia?

Macromedia, of course. Shockwave/Flash player is closed-source, hence only available in binary form. This means we only have a 32-bit version available for amd64, and it has to be run through all the emulation libraries...

64-bit mozilla plugin support is EXACTLY what we're asking for here.

nukem996 · Post by **nukem996** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:10 am

We are sending to macromedia.

Mozilla can be compiled for 64bit, then it supports 64bit plugins. Use blackdown for 64bit java.

Alexj76 · Post by **Alexj76** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:41 am

Request sent!

But a asked for a link...

It looks like i`m blind....

And Mozilla Pluginns like Multizilla (from mozdev.org ..)
Multizilla dosen`t works on my gentoo under 64...

crash9877 · Post by **crash9877** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:46 am

i just send a request 2. hopefully they will do it. they must do it cause of the upcoming xp64.

supernovae · Post by **supernovae** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:30 am

crash9877 wrote:i just send a request 2. hopefully they will do it. they must do it cause of the upcoming xp64.

Its sad when we have to wait for M$ to make a move before closed-source dev's will work on things

bluz · Post by **bluz** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:02 pm

gian · Post by **gian** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 7:07 pm

sent "plead"...

sent it to the "feature request/bug report" report form... is it the right place ?

nukem996 · Post by **nukem996** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:22 am

Yes it is. Its be kina over board to call this a bug even though it does not work on 64bit.

AMD64 Flash Port

AMD64 Flash Port

wishlist: flash 64

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