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Cool beans, I've tested it and it's pretty good. Not much difference between Flash Player 8, plus it's only a bit different to Player 8.5 - main thing is that I can watch stuff made using ActionScript 3.0 compiled with Flex 2 beta 3.

Thanks for fixing the update message thing James.

I've been using Flash Player 9 for a few months, since Flex came out. I have the newest beta. So far I haven't really noticed anything that I can confidently blame on FP9, except maybe the menu at hgtv.com. Happens on both IE and Firefox, the tabbed buttons in that menu don't go anywhere. I havn't downgraded to confirm FP9 is the cause, so it could be that HGTV's designers don't know how to add links to buttons. Making a main menu in flash is a big no-no in the first place, with that site's targeted audience.

A Flash 9 beta (nicknamed Blaze) will be coming out during the summer, I don't know when exactly but it's an open beta so everyone can download it.

At 5/26/06 12:16 PM, tpm wrote: I've been using Flash Player 9 for a few months, since Flex came out.

Flash Player 9 has only been out a fortnight =\

so far ive been using flash player 9 beta and havent noticed any difference apart from the fact that its able to play the game alloy arena (flash 8 would crash after a few seconds of play)

At 5/26/06 03:38 AM, Cybex wrote: I'm making a game and uploaded it to denvish.net/ul and someone with the flash 9 beta said it crashed their firefox. So i'm not sure, but i think this is an example of a flash that causes bugs with flash player 9. Would someone else with the plug-in mind testing it to confirm if its due to the flash player or not.

I have Flash Player 8 since I don't see a real need to upgrade (yet). I opened your game with Internet Explorer (Flash Player 8) and it ran fine. No crashes, no bugs, no nothing.

-SomeNick

At 5/25/06 11:53 PM, -W35- wrote: I hate that they called it 9. It was originally going to be 8.5, but they decided to call it 9 even though there was no huge changes.

other than... oh maby AS3

= much faster, capable of fully polygonated 3D game in flash with textures...

At 5/26/06 02:41 PM, Glaiel_Gamer wrote: other than... oh maby AS3

= much faster, capable of fully polygonated 3D game in flash with textures...

Plus:

-They have never had an official midway (.5) release of Flash Player
-The Flash Player wasn't going to change between the release of Flex 2 (and the new Flash Player) and the release of the new Flash

I'm waiting for the full version, because I don't want to see stuff different than everyone else...

so, flash player 9 (8.5, whatever) is simply a graphics/code enhancement? doubt i'll get it.

At 5/26/06 03:38 PM, dashival wrote: so, flash player 9 (8.5, whatever) is simply a graphics/code enhancement? doubt i'll get it.

No. Flash 9 has implemented ActionScript 3 (which can only be compiled with the Beta version of Macromedia Flex 2 so far) so using Flash Player 9 you can view AS3 projects. All flash files made with previous Flash versions (0-8) will display exactly the same as with Flash Player 8.

At 5/25/06 09:12 PM, Glaiel_Gamer wrote: meh i'm going to wait. From what I've heard AS3 uses x and y instead of _x and _y and a lot of my games used x and y for relative coordinates to be mapped to 2D coordinates later.

I heard that 3D frogger glitched up with the beta (probably cause i used x,y,z to hold the 3D coords).

you do realise that flash player 8.5 and above use two seperate virtual machines

AVM1 is the current flash virtual machine running applications from 1 to 8, AVM2 is a new virtual machine built from the ground up for AS3

flash player 8.5 and above contain both so that applications from flash 8 and below will use AVM1 and 8.5 and above use AVM2, so that cannot be a reason for a bug becase it is AVM1 that will be running your byte code, and apart from this, you forget that these virtual machines runs the flash byte code, not AS, AS is compiled to the bytecode

At 5/25/06 09:10 PM, DeadPixels wrote: Already Flash 9?

That was soon..

Well they've gotta keep up, because:
Flash Version = My Grade Year in School
Flash 9 will come out when I'm in 9th grade. The version of flash (for actual developing, not the player) has always been equal to my grade in school :).

sweet news

At 5/26/06 05:42 PM, liljim wrote:

At 5/26/06 11:42 AM, liaaaam wrote: Thanks for fixing the update message thing James.

No problem, sorry for not replying to your mail - it's been a busy week.

Don't worry about it, at least you fixed it ^_^

At 5/25/06 09:07 PM, liljim wrote: For those of you who aren't aware of it, there's a public beta version of Flash Player 9 available. Please only post here, if you have already had experience with the beta plugin (not whether you will try it, don't intend to, or whatever).

If you want to test the beta version, you have to uninstall your current flash plugin and then install the beta version (the uninstaller and the installer for the new plugin can both be found from the link above).

Keep in mind that if you DO install the beta plugin, flash submissions which would otherwise have worked fine in previous plugin versions, might appear to be buggy. In these cases (if you're using the beta plugin), please report problems in this thread (link to the flash entries that have caused problems, please). That way, we can report back to Adobe with your findings.

Flash player 9? finally!!! i don't have a very good download of Flash Player 8 so i can play any gmaes for a long time. the game i play cuts off while i'm playing :( but i'll be sure i'll get a good enough download of Flash Player 9 :)

i found a problem with border lines being shown on some games...

*craps pants*

Its buggy.. I don't like it very much. I'm uninstalling it until full comes out.

No problems so far :)

I'll wait until the full version comes out

It's called Flash Player 9? I would have thought that 'Adobe Flash Player 0.x (Beta)', or something like that might have been a better (although more stupider) name, since Adobe aquired Macromedia and such. meh. I won't be downloading it anyways. I don't trust betas...

Flash 9? already? Flash 8 only came out about 7 months ago...

At 5/27/06 12:34 AM, Doomhammr wrote: why do people keep mentioning player 8.5?! it doesn't exist! the latest version of 8 is 8,0,24,0

No, that's the latest official version. Macromedia (before they stopped calling it Macromedia) released Flash Player 8.5 ages ago as a beta, Flash Player 9 is the same as 8.5 except for a few minor changes that were made for beta 3 of Flex 2. Adobe/Macromedia just didn't want to officially release a Flash Player that was a decimal number as they would be releasing #9 with Flash 9 (IDE) and it would be exactly the same anyway.

Its good they made a fp9... now i just want the flash 9 to make stuff in, AS3 will be gr8.. btw the beta of fp9 worked pretty good some bugs here on NG tho, a few games didnt turn out as they should. I realy hope everyone will start using AS3 and FP9 when thay are really complete with the dev program to.

i'm useing it for a long time (olmost a month), and i had no problams...

i have downloaded it... not bad at all i found some glitches but none the less alright

i already have this...

At 5/25/06 09:07 PM, liljim wrote: For those of you who aren't aware of it, there's a public beta version of Flash Player 9 available. Please only post here, if you have already had experience with the beta plugin (not whether you will try it, don't intend to, or whatever).

Cool