The last few months I slacked a bit in following the most recent flash-developers.

Shame on me: I missed out on some major cool stuff !!!
http://blog.andre-michelle.com/
Flash player 9is available ... Action Script 3 promises developers-heaven ... (check out the Commodore 64 emulator written in flash ... drooooool !!!)



Ouch .... After installing flash player 9, the framerate of most cpu and script intensive routines dropped with 50%