Common problems are shown below, if none if these match your dilemma then please register on the game forums and post questions there, also be sure to check out the new player section of the web site.
| True as of 24 Sept 2002. |
You will need the Java Runtime as usual. If you unzip the download (you will need a winzip compatible utility) you simply have to open up the tartarus.html page within netscape and it will work. To run it stand-alone you must do the following (this may be a little out of date):
a)Install the java runtime.
b)Unzip the download (I'm afraid you will need a winzip compatible zip utility)
c)Ensure you have no classpath set
unsetenv CLASSPATH
d)Find the JRE that came with the runtime. For example a user jgibbons had
netscape installed, so the plug-in put itself in
~jgibbons/.netscape/java/bin/
e) Change directory to the Tartarus install directory
f) Run the Plug-in JRE
~jgibbons/.netscape/java/bin/jre -cp tartarus.jar Tartarus
g) The game client will now be running!
This was submitted by a player (thanks Jim). Basically the advice is that it's not easy to get it running on a mac...
I believe I know how to get your client to run in a Mac. It isn't easy and use of the Swing libraries complicates things but I was able to get my client to run on a mac by doing this and it is somewhat similar to the tartarus client.
First the mac owner must install the latest versions of MRJ and MRJ SDK (even if they are not going to develop code themselves). In the MRJ SDK is a program called JBindery. JBindery provides launching services for Java applications and applets on a Mac - it is similar to the java command line program but is graphical. In it you provide the class to be executed and the classpath you need to run the app. You can also muck with a lot of other things but those are the biggies. Then the application will run.
You have to get the mac swing library and make sure the class path points to it correctly. JBindery can also "repackage" a jar file to provide a Mac wrapper that will make it executable on a Mac without having to dink with JBindery to run it. This is what Mac people do when they develop java apps.
The mac wrapper is a mac executable program that will launch the JVM and execute the class files. The java programs must be made to "look like" a mac program. There is a manual in PDF format included with the MRJ SDK that has examples of Unix java comand line commands and how to translate them to JBinder fields. It was the only helpful book I have ever found that was written by Apple.
I hope this helps. It took me months to get this information and to make it work. If I were you I would just tell the mac world "too bad you have a mac" and forget about trying to get stuff to run on it. The average mac user will find all of this too hard.
It may not work over the Internet if you are running behind a corporate firewall, you need to set up the java runtime proxy settings to make it happy and google is the best way to find out how!
This is more serious. Read the help pages about getting last goes reports and make sure you understand the mechanism. If the report message does not contain ---TITANS--- at the start then your email system is encoding all mail messages. This is very unusual and you should consult your system admin., or service provider to determine what is going on.
There will also be occasional major upgrades to the game client which will not be backwards compatible. In other words, check out the web site and see if there is a new version of the game client.