http://www.projectdarkstar.com
;D ;D ;D
-Chris
Ooo! Aaah! 
It better be damn good after all of this
Kev
It’s a tease, it’s a tease, it’s a tease but it always works!
the site does’nt work for me :’(
(see attached screenshot)
Houston! Houston! we have finally not got problems…
darkstar is one little step in whole game industry but huge in java gaming industry 
Er, what’s it do, then? Is it like a laser (“solution looking for a problem”) or is it like a Swiss army knife or what?
Cas
well lasers were the apocryphal ‘solution looking for a problem’ when they were first invented but since then they’ve turned up in millions of different consumer devices and have actually spawned entire industries and helped propel scientific advances that wouldn’t have been possible without them, so if it does INDEED turn out to be ‘like a laser’ then I reckon sun ought to count themselves lucky
Although, yes, I -do- find my swiss army knife considerably more useful than my laser pointer. Now if only someone would invent a suitably powerful little handheld laser ‘cutting device’* of some description I’d be a happy man.
D.
*by ‘cutting device’ I obviously mean a ‘laser rifle’ or perhaps ‘orbital laser bombardment satellite’ . ohhhhh yeah.
Well, it rates 100% on my hype-o-meter… 
:-\ I was hoping for that whitepaper jeff went on about ages ago
On March 22, the whitepaper, docs, code samples, runtimes, forums, wiki, etc. will all be available. You know that never used front page for games at Java.Net?..
No hyps, Jeff and I have been pushing this for 3 yearsand Sun did a serious investment in it not too long ago. We FINALLY believe that you all will be pleasantly suprised
In fact, it’s not just a smiley feeling, it’s more of a " ;D 8) :o ;D ;D :o 8)" feeling!
-Chris
@ChrisM, no offense intended Chris. I thought the teaser was great and I’m sure the denizens of the Java Games Forums will all be in awe when Project DarkStar is unveiled… 8)
I’m impressed - yet again you got me excited and yet again I know nothing new!! J/K - I know the date when all will be revealed
…flash? ahem
It’s Sun marketing… did you expect something different ?
Isn’t Darkstar just another server?
Doesn’t Sun have millions of them already?
Why is it that I’m always left out of the loop.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me what PD is? Thanks.
At least we know K.I.L.E.R fell for the hype.
From the little hints that have been given I believe Project Darkstar is about a gaming server designed to scale in new ways. Multiple different games could be hosted by the same server. From some of the hints dropped around here It seems that Darkstar has the potential for smaller developers to pay for a small slice of a server to run their game without having to make the huge investment typically required to run a full online gaming community. That seems to fit into Sun’s model of selling servers and supporting server-based services that can be resold by their direct customers.
I hope it does well and that Sun manages to get some big customers on board, because there is bound to be some spill-over to the client side once developers see the power of Java for the server-side of gaming.
Wow, 100% content free, I’m impressed!
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Yes, you’ve promised an overhaul of it several times already. Each time it gets a burst of activity for a week then goes dead again. :
Darkstar is the PC term for a star that’s not to bright. They used to be called Dwarf stars.