Celebrations and gloatations!

OpenGL Development
#1

Crimble has arrived once more. The year has whizzed away faster than an alka seltzer in a warm brandy. Everyone’s skinter than ever but moderately happy.

The scores at the end of round one are:

LWJGL: 2 (AF, DM)
JOGL: 0

Yep, two whole products released already! Not bad for the API y’all abandoned, ye scurrilous turncoats. Hehe :wink:

Invasion of the Jellies progress is great, with jellies, saucers, bullets, levels, etc. all in now and running smoove. Tribal Trouble looks more and more excellent every day and will comprehensively blow all other Java games into the weeds when it’s released. Cosmic Trip looks cheaper than acid and less likely to put you in a strange situation. All three likely to be released in time for JavaOne, methinks.

So happy Christmas to everyone and enjoy the new year.

Cas :slight_smile:

#2

I feel like I should know, but whats DM?

Kev

#3

Danger Maze : http://www.adamantgames.com/

#4

Is it just me or there is just Windows demo of Dange Maze?
How can we, a Linux crowd, enjoy it?

#5

You can vociferously hassle psiegel of these parts to get the bloody webstarted version up, that’s what you can do :smiley: He’s scared of the nasty message that comes up saying Adamant Games are untrusted etc. (because the price of a code certificate is bloody expensive for a tiny indie). (Any help here from Sun? I have the same problem…)

Cas :slight_smile:

#6

Out of interest, did anyone actually move from LWJGL to JOGL? Would have thought they would attract different users (JOGL - idealistic, LWJGL - practical)

Kev

#7

[quote]You can vociferously hassle psiegel of these parts to get the bloody webstarted version up, that’s what you can do :smiley: He’s scared of the nasty message that comes up saying Adamant Games are untrusted etc. (because the price of a code certificate is bloody expensive for a tiny indie). (Any help here from Sun? I have the same problem…)
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A class 2 certificate (for 20$/year) would be actually enough for most people. However, VeriSign (the dns wildcard bastards) doesn’t sell em anymore (for that reason).

The only thing left is the class 3 certificate for 400-500$/year (you have two buy it for two years at least). And that’s a bit too much if you ask me. Who trusts VeriSign anyways? I don’t.

As a side note: Sun’s build in certificates (used for SSL+Applets) expires on the 7th january 2004. For that reason there are updated JRE versions (1.4.2_03, 1.4.1_06 and 1.3.1_10).

Also a workaround for importing the new keys:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F57436

#8

Use their own priceaware company, Thawte (www.thawte.com):
199.00$ for 1 year, and 159$ for renewals