What 64kb of Flash Can Do in 2009 -- Your Move, HTML5

a white screen and CPU goes to 100%...

html5 does far better then that on my computer.

Wow, the comments here are overwhelmingly negative.

Keep in mind that this is from pouet.net, a site dedicated to Amiga-style demos. Of course this demo is irrelevant to modern web design. It's a technical feat more than anything.

Yawn. Hardly relevant to real web design use cases is it?

Also, is it me or do these effects look awful? No antialiasing on my machine, lame Amiga era pseudo 3D effects and blurry type in a tiny screen resolution.

Yawn, yawn, yawn.

that just crashed my macbook pro. thanks, I just lost an hour's worth of notes.

[and that's exactly the point. adobe's flash player sucks for performance and reliabilty.]

Wait, a browser plugin can crash your whole operating system? Or do you mean your browser crashed? (Both don't exactly inspire confidence in the Mac platform)

I just watched it in Firefox on Linux and apart from a quite long time of pre-rendering and high memory consumption, I liked it. The bloom particle effects look like Auditorium (http://www.playauditorium.com/), but it's pretty nonetheless.

operating system. I downloaded the swf and played it with flash player 10.