Well, that’s a damn fun game. Already!
Pretty close - I don’t think I was ahead at all after the first 10 kills, but 69 played 69 was pretty impressive. 8) 200 kills is my daily maximum, so I’ll leave it there. 
Amusingly enough, I held LEFT-UP-SPACE and alt-tabbed out to leave it spinning and shooting randomly, and got a further 10 kills from that…
My ping time was usually 110, and peaked at 415.
Thx, good to know - and now I know who ‘.’ has been 
Did I look smooth at your side? You didn’t at mine. Means I should do some remote-side smoothing as well. But first I have to understand what the nature of these little skips is and what EXACTLY causes them. ???
Can’t help, I’m a scientist
[quote]I like to show you the first prototype of a game named ‘JPilot’ remembering of the famous XPilot.
http://www.hardcode.de/jpilot/
Gameplay is similar to that of Astroprime, but please note the mininale resource consumption network- and CPU-wise.
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Didn’t work for me, under linux 1.4.2. I got as far as the bit where you click the “as server” checkbox, and hit OK (BTW nice touch, taking the username automatically), and then I OK’d (or whatever the button is) and it disappeared, and I was just left with the green background that is on the main website (with the big grid). Nothing else happened - I clicked, I pressed buttons; nothing.
Same here 
-SG
Linux - yes - as always…
Ok, I try to get up my linux up and running again.
Any messages in the WebStart console?
Hm, I’m under Linux now as well … after fighting with that rpm crap and getting 1.4.2 to work…
Works fine here (a bit unsmooth, maybe)! Now I need your help. Something in the WebStart console?
BTW, your ship starts in the upper left corner (yes, I’ll improve that)! Sometimes hard to see…
[quote]Hm, I’m under Linux now as well … after fighting with that rpm crap and getting 1.4.2 to work…
Works fine here (a bit unsmooth, maybe)! Now I need your help. Something in the WebStart console?
BTW, your ship starts in the upper left corner (yes, I’ll improve that)! Sometimes hard to see…
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I know this is a stupid question, but I’m asking it because I suspect I’m not alone - how do you bring up the webstart console in linux? IIRC there were start-ment / control panel shortcuts in windows…(I’m one of those poor souls who only got JWS working OK for the first time ever quite recently :().
I suppose you have to start javaws manually.
Ahahahar!
Had to stop playing, I’ve got work to do!
Cas
[quote]I suppose you have to start javaws manually.
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Ah. For some reason it’s not part of the SDK; JRE only. Found it in the end :).
OK, I run javaws, and it shows me the WS apps I’ve previously downloaded etc, and one of them is JPilot. I select it, and press the big start button, and I get a splash screen saying “Jpilot Prototype - HARDCODE Development”.
That’s it. God, but JWS sucks!
The splash disappears after 5-10 seconds.
Nothing else happens.
Ideas? (perhaps I could suggest packaging a JAR?)
Oh, and to cap it off, JWS automatically backgrounds itself whenever you move the mouse off it’s window. I’ve never seen that before…interesting, but extreemely irrirating and confusing.
…other games (such as the J2DA demo - Dash) replace the spalsh screen after a few seconds with the “downloading” popup, showing percentage downloaded etc, and then the game runs. JPilot just never does anything
Very cool!
Worked on my powerbook but I had the same hicups as swpalmer.
The “Photon Torpedo” effect was cool!
What is a “Photon Torpedo”?
[quote]What is a “Photon Torpedo”?
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A weapon used in Star Trek… it looks like your bullets.
Just wish I could get to the server from behind the corporate firewall
Ran it on two different machines here with one as the server and it looked pretty cool 
Any news from the Linux frontier?
The JNLP as well as the code itself are nothing extraordinary. There HAS to be a trivial reason…
[quote]Any news from the Linux frontier?
The JNLP as well as the code itself are nothing extraordinary. There HAS to be a trivial reason…
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Well, unless you can point me to an updated JWS that actually works, as opposed to what’s currently packaged as standard with Java 1.4.2, or offer a different way of viewing the console, then I can’t actually view the console.
Or you could just put up a jar file…I’d be more than happy to try that (I don’t like JWS, I don’t trust it ;D).
This simple game is fun and reminds me of the times I visited university. We had these Sun Sparcstations and xpilot was very popular…
I had no problems on Linux, btw. Runs smooth as silk.
blahblahblahh, sure, the jar files are accessible from the server. I added the download links to the webpage.
[quote]blahblahblahh, sure, the jar files are accessible from the server. I added the download links to the webpage.
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OK, so I downloaded the jars - worked fine.
So I tried JWS again. This time, it decided to re-download everything (so I assume you’ve updated it recently?). This time, when it had finished downloading, it worked AND I got the console - which although I had previously enabled, wasn’t appearing at all (along with the fact that JWS was doing nothing).
So, whatever the problem was, it now all works fine :).
I’m tempted to guess that your webserver perhaps went down (or more likely was unroutable from my ISP) for a few hours earlier - and JWS is too dumb to have a sensible timeout when checking the jnlp…