<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m pleased to announce the release of Java Netrek version 1.0.3! Just in time for this weekend’s game:</div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Saturday Dec 4 @ 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern.</div><div class="">In Melbourne, Sunday Dec 5 @ 1pm</div>On pickled!</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Grab the most recent .jar in the most recent release at:</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/netrek/JavaNetrek/releases" class="">https://github.com/netrek/JavaNetrek/releases</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It runs on MacOS! (But I’d rather you ran my Swift client from the MacOS App Store ;-)</div><div class="">It runs on Linux Mint!</div><div class="">It runs on Windows! (But my windows box doesn’t have audio, so audio is untested but hoped to work…let me know)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On MacOS you may need to right-click to run.</div><div class="">Windows will resist downloading the .jar because it “may damage your computer”. You can click on the right to force it to download.</div><div class="">You will need a Java runtime environment. This runs on the old JRE 1.8 or newer, so you can go to <a href="https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/" class="">https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/</a> and get the “Java for Consumers” if you don’t want a full JDK.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sound is working from the .jar by double-clicking! (Thank you kwadroke and asolutioncompany for help in their GitHub issue submissions)</div><div class="">Resizing is mostly working.</div><div class="">Team and message views are in their normal locations.</div><div class="">Jarfile is downgraded to run on JRE 1.8, which includes the “Java for Consumers” download from Oracle.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Known issues:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">No properties / custom keycap support.</div><div class="">Audio is not tested on Windows but is believed to work</div><div class="">Orbit path is a bit off after resizing the window</div><div class="">Ship size does not resize</div><div class="">Fonts seem small and unpleasant on my Windows box</div><div class="">Definitely needs some memory and CPU profiling</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As always, honor and glory to Robert Temple who originally wrote it in Java 1.2.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope to see you Saturday during the game!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Darrell</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>