Trying to play some old Java IFComp games

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I’m trying to go through and play the last couple dozen IFComp games I missed the first time I played through all of them. There are two which I really have no clue how to play that share the same system: java.

The games are:

Goofy:

https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=tf4xn1v7hl72dt08

and Tentellian Island:

https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=utczzxri79tnmtv6

Does anyone know a good way to emulate this or get these to play? Hopefully in sandboxed form in case there is old bad stuff in there.

There are a few other games I think are lost forever. The two that come to mind are the ARG Sun and Moon (which heavily featured java feels spread on different websites, and I don’t think the Java was captured by the wayback machine) and Hanon’s Final Girl.

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Yeah, sadly Final Girl got mangled in the database beyond repair after Failbetter stopped providing support, making it unplayable.

I really want to re-make it in a new system and have prototyped it. I even have art I commissioned! Just have to jump in both feet sometime.

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Probably the most straightforward way would be to install a Java JDK prior to version 11, and use appletviewer to run the applet.

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Well, I just took a look at Tentellian Island in IFDB and it’s a mess of loose files. It could be assembled into something workable as the source code is there.

appletviewer works for Goofy though:

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I don’t know much about appletviewer but I’ll try it out!

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I feel lucky to have been able to play it in its original form-- it was a great game for a novel system.

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