{"id":16061,"date":"2022-01-20T21:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=16061"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:29:40","slug":"robot-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/robot-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I read Alan’s post Right? or Choice? To Repair (or Joy Thereof) #DLINQDigDetox \u2013 CogDogBlog<\/a>. One thing in particular caught my eye:<\/p>\n

And yes extend broken devices to broken technology. Can\u2019t play old flash content? Try Ruffle<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d not heard of Ruffle, but I though it was worth a quick try. I searched my hard drive and was delighted to find \u00a0rommy.swf<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rommy<\/a> has been reborn several times, born as a HyperCard stack in the 1990s, then a SuperCard project, arriving on the web via the Roadster plugin that ran SuperCard projects. The final incarnation was in flash (although I might have a javascript effort somewhere).<\/p>\n

Anyway I uploaded the swf and htlm file, adding the link to the ruffle javascript library & it worked<\/a>\u00a0not only that it works on an iPad.<\/p>\n

I don’t suppose it is of much use in the classroom now, back in the HyperCard days I though the idea of pupils creating mazes and then getting their partners to write instructions to go through them was a good one. I had not see it else where is such an easy to use fashion.<\/p>\n

The featured image is a gif captured with licecap, it doesn’t make the annoying beeping that the real one<\/a> does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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