From darrellroot at mac.com  Wed Apr  7 19:25:38 2021
From: darrellroot at mac.com (Darrell Root)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:25:38 -0700
Subject: [netrek-dev] Java Netrek Client Lives! (almost)
Message-ID: <7B45578B-B921-4441-9FFB-BF8F958628C7@mac.com>

I’m pleased to announce that I grabbed a copy of Robert Temple’s old Java Netrek Client (JTrek) version 0.9.4 beta and have it _almost_ playable!

JTrek was written in 1997-1998 for Java version 1.2.  It took a bit of tender-loving-care, but I’ve got it imported into Eclipse, compiling, running against pickled.netrek.org <http://pickled.netrek.org/>, and _almost_ playable.  Github repository is https://github.com/netrek/JTrek <https://github.com/netrek/JTrek>    Check the releases section for the latest prebuilt runnable jar file.

The most visible problem right now is that all mouse clicks are torpedo clicks.  Laser or change-direction are not recognized (I think option-click worked for lasers though).  I’m confident I’ll have the mouse issues knocked out in a couple days (I’m not actually a Java programmer, this is a learning exercise for me).

Here’s a screenshot: https://postimg.cc/PNqxYcz1 <https://postimg.cc/PNqxYcz1>

I’ll update and announce more widely once I have it more playable.  I’m also happy to review and (hopefully) accept pull requests.

Darrell


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From netrek at gmail.com  Wed Apr  7 19:55:46 2021
From: netrek at gmail.com (Jesus Saves)
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 20:55:46 -0400
Subject: [netrek-dev] Java Netrek Client Lives! (almost)
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Well done!

Zach

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:26 PM Darrell Root <darrellroot at mac.com> wrote:

> I’m pleased to announce that I grabbed a copy of Robert Temple’s old Java
> Netrek Client (JTrek) version 0.9.4 beta and have it _almost_ playable!
>
> JTrek was written in 1997-1998 for Java version 1.2.  It took a bit of
> tender-loving-care, but I’ve got it imported into Eclipse, compiling,
> running against pickled.netrek.org, and _almost_ playable.  Github
> repository is https://github.com/netrek/JTrek    Check the releases
> section for the latest prebuilt runnable jar file.
>
> The most visible problem right now is that all mouse clicks are torpedo
> clicks.  Laser or change-direction are not recognized (I think option-click
> worked for lasers though).  I’m confident I’ll have the mouse issues
> knocked out in a couple days (I’m not actually a Java programmer, this is a
> learning exercise for me).
>
> Here’s a screenshot: https://postimg.cc/PNqxYcz1
>
> I’ll update and announce more widely once I have it more playable.  I’m
> also happy to review and (hopefully) accept pull requests.
>
> Darrell
>
>
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> netrek-dev mailing list
> netrek-dev at us.netrek.org
> http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev
>


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From darrellroot at mac.com  Tue Apr 20 16:31:19 2021
From: darrellroot at mac.com (Darrell Root)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:31:19 -0700
Subject: [netrek-dev] Java Netrek Client v0.9.6 is playable!
Message-ID: <8CF23734-8BCE-47BA-9566-8EA47E0451C2@mac.com>

Java Netrek Client is now playable!  I fixed multi-button support!

Here’s the GitHub for the source: https://github.com/netrek/JavaNetrek

For the latest release, including a runnable .jar file, go to https://github.com/netrek/JavaNetrek/releases/latest

It needs more testing.  I have not tried to run it on Windows or Linux.  But it works against both C/Bronco pickled.netrek.org <http://pickled.netrek.org/> (by default) and (via command-line switch) my Swift/Empire server at netrek.networkmom.net <http://netrek.networkmom.net/>!

CPU usage is high.  Number of updates per second seems low.  I’ve attached a screenshot of a JProfiler run, but haven’t yet tried to improve performance.

As always, 99% of the source code is thanks to Robert Temple.  I just did 1% to update it from Java 1.2 to recent JVMs.

Darrell

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