Attention iPad owners pining for Flash-based games you enjoy playing on your PC: a start-up called iSwifter is launching technology today it says provides a way to tap into those games hosted on the Net.
Apple has banned Adobe Systems' Flash Player from its iOS devices, and although it recently relented on a broader ban of Flash-derived applications, game developers must retool those programs before they may be submitted. iSwifter's approach, though, provides a conduit to those games running on servers on the Internet.
The iSwifter service provides access to Flash games from a number of online game sites, including Yahoo Games, AOL's Games.com, Facebook, and Kongregate, the company said.
Apple has approved the iSwifter application, and it and the service are available now for free. It's available worldwide, but requires a Wi-Fi network connection to run at present.
The technology runs the Flash games on a server and streams the screen's contents to the iPad.The app records how a player is touching the iPad and sends that information back to the server where the game is actually running. That comes with a certain amount of lag between when a player touches the screen and when the game running on a remote server actually gets that information. Of course, latency can be highly undesirable in games, but iSwifter said the service works for its intended market.
The iSwifter service provides access to Flash games from a number of online game sites, including Yahoo Games, AOl Games.com, Facebook, and Kongregate, the company said.
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