Combat Simulator Released!

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
Ouch! Neither did I. Who knew you could learn programming by playing games?

Me. Everything I know about programming, I learned by from playing games, ripping them apart, and hacking them to be the way *I* want them to.

In Soviet Russia, the game plays you!

[mivayan]

D:\Strategy\dominions2\doc\CombatSim>dir fight.class

Le volume dans le lecteur D est DATA
Le numéro de série du volume est 7FD4-62B6
Répertoire de D:\Strategy\dominions2\doc\CombatSim

FIGHT~1 CLA 10 530 29/02/04 15:25 Fight.class
1 fichier(s) 10 530 octets
0 répertoire(s) 56 423.88 Mo libre

I am not sure exactly how and why but I have experienced the problem of java not looking for class files in the current directory.

Try this: java -classpath D:\Strategy\dominions2\doc\CombatSim Fight militia militia

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by mivayan:
I am not sure exactly how and why but I have experienced the problem of java not looking for class files in the current directory.

Try this: java -classpath D:\Strategy\dominions2\doc\CombatSim Fight militia militia

Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

BTW, from within the correct directory, you could probably type this:

java -cp . Fight militia militia

and get the same result. "." means current directory - it worked for me.

I don't remember how to permanently get it into Java's head that class files are found in the local directory, but I'll post it here if I find out.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I don't remember how to permanently get it into Java's head that class files are found in the local directory, but I'll post it here if I find out.

Try setting the CLASSPATH variable at the system level to "." and see if that works.

[Saber Cherry]

Been a while, but a new version of the combat simulator is out - you can grab it here:

http://www.geocities.com/saber_marionette_cherry/

It fixes a bug that has made attack-defense rolls wrong since the last version

Sorry about that! It was a result of a speed-up tweak, and I don't know how it slipped by my QC, but somebody noticed it and emailed me about it. Unfortunately, I forgot who, but thanks, Mr. Mystery person!

[Zooko]

When I run this on Macintosh I get:

MAIN draco:~/Desktop/Combat_Simulator$ java Fight
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Fight (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java :539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Secure ClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader .java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader. java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 89)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 35)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoade r.java:302)
MAIN draco:~/Desktop/Combat_Simulator$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_05-141.4)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-38, mixed mode)
MAIN draco:~/Desktop/Combat_Simulator$ uname -a
Darwin draco.local 7.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.8.0: Wed Dec 22 14:26:17 PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.11.1.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc

So much for that whole "Write Once, Run Anywhere" idea. :-/

[Saber Cherry]

Zooko said:So much for that whole "Write Once, Run Anywhere" idea. :-/

This isn't the first time I had trouble with Macs. Before, I found out that Macs use a different director separator than Windows (Windows uses "\").

However, your problem is not OS-related, I think, but rather the fact that I compiled it in Java 5.0 and you are running it in Java 4.2. 5.0 makes some major changes.

Hopefully, if you go here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

And click on this link: "Download JRE for Other Platforms"

And install it, it will run.

Edit. P.S. Thanks for posting the complete error message and version information!