First post, by oeuvre
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Hey guys. I've downloaded a few old Java games I used to play... Javanoid and Jet Slalom. Nabbing them was a bit of work, going through .class files and then .jars and .javas etc. finding directories for websites to download other resources for the games (images, sounds, data/text files).
Anyways I was able to get them to work in 2 ways - JRE + an HTML file to run them offline... or JDK via appletviewer. Example -- for Javanoid, my HTML file is just one line of
<applet CODE="javanoid.class" WIDTH="410" HEIGHT="310"></applet>
The HTML file resides in a folder with the rest of the resources for the game... .class, .dat, .gif, .txt, .au files. I've also installed the JDK on my VMs/86box/PCem emulators and XP rig. After adding the jdk/bin directory to the PATH of each OS, I've created simple .bat files which consist of:
appletviewer.exe \javanoid\javanoid.htm
For Windows 95 and NT4 you want:
JRE: j2re-1_3_1_20-windows-i586.exe
JDK: j2sdk-1_3_1_20-windows-i586.exe
For Windows 98 + Me (98 1st and 2nd editions):
JRE: jre-1_5_0_16-windows-i586-p.exe
JDK: jdk-1_5_0_16-windows-i586-p.exe
The one I am using is j2sdk-1_4_2_03-windows-i586-p.exe
For Windows 2000, Server 2003, and XP:
JRE: jre-7u80-windows-i586.exe
JDK: jdk-7u80-windows-i586.exe
The one I am using is jdk-6u45-windows-i586.exe
Hope this is helpful. I can share the game files if you wish. Hoping other people will preserve other Java games for offline use.
offline browser via JRE
offline via JDK
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