DirPlayer brings Shockwave emulation to web

This is the kind of project that keeps the long tail of the web accessible: not mass-market, but genuinely useful for retro content, archives, and browser-game preservation.

• –It goes beyond a proof of concept by shipping a WASM VM, a browser polyfill, a Chrome extension, and a desktop debugger.
• –Rust plus WebAssembly is a sensible stack here, since the original Shockwave plugin model is long dead and portability matters more than novelty.
• –The utility is narrow, because Shockwave content is a niche of a niche, but that also makes the project more valuable to preservation-minded developers.
• –Compared with better-known emulator efforts, DirPlayer-rs shows how many abandoned web runtimes still have room for serious revival work.