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by tombert 196 days ago
About three years ago, I had a Macbook and I wanted to play with Flash/Animate again.

I went to Adobe's website, and couldn't find a non-subscription version to just buy, so I actually contacted customer support about it, and they said "nope, you have to pay for a subscription".

I could have of course sailed the high seas, but I opted to just buy a copy of Toonboom Harmony, which is fairly different than Flash but close enough and still offers perpetual licenses (and shockingly works pretty well with Wine/Proton on Linux).
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JBits 196 days ago
People still appear to use Flash these days by downloading an old version and getting a license key from Reddit/YouTube/etc.
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tombert 196 days ago
I didn't really want to resort to piracy; I think it's stupid that Adobe won't sell a perpetual license.

I got a license to Moho from a Humble Bundle like a year ago, and I think Toonz is open source nowadays, all in addition to the ToonBoom copy I have so I probably don't need the real Adobe Animate anymore.

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KapKap66 196 days ago
Are you sure it still offers perpetual licenses? Because I just checked the Toonboom site and didn't see any.

Maybe you got in before they enshittified too :)?

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tombert 196 days ago
Looks like you are correct: https://www.reddit.com/r/ToonBoomHarmony/comments/1ktuhtv/to...

Glad I snagged it when I did (though admittedly it was probably a bad impulse purchase since I don't really animate much anymore).

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