Just tried out a nice zip library. This one was easier to use than fzip although fzip may offer some features I’m unaware of. Super handy with flash 10 to have this available as the local file load/save feature is limited to one file at a time. Now you can just pack up a compressed file with all of your assets and save that. I can also see potential for putting bulk site assets in one zip file and preloading them that way.

Just built a new 8-bit style video game for SF Environment.

For whatever reason there html text in flash does not support too many of the named characters. Any time I’m loading in an external file I’m constantly forgetting about that and things like bullets and emdashes don’t show up. I finally broke down and went to: http://www.evolt.org/entities and built a script to take care of this nagging problem. It will convert most of the standard name based entities to their numeric counterparts.
You can grab the file here.

Just set up this blog. Still need to get a google code page set up. Hopefully having this will provide some sort of usefulness.