- Jul 31, 2019
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Java works fine. About half a year ago I updated the game so that Java 8 no longer works, because Java 8 was released during the Eisenhower administration, and that's the one a lot of people have installed on their system. But if people want to run the game with their own Java install instead of the packaged one (so they only need to download the .jar) they are taking it upon themselves to understand how that works. Otherwise just run the executable file.The windows version isn't up to date because I don't want to upload 5 different version every week. But you only have to download the win version 1 time and then always swap out the JAR file. And Majalis himself updates it so we can be sure it is working and when not that he fixes that version.
There is a reason why so many people every 2 pages asks about the problem with Java, last year in October or so some time like that, something was changed and since then java doesn't work, but I use the same Win build since then and it works fine.
Renaming the .jar so that the executable no longer works exacerbates this problem, and people installing jython because that one post (that I said would cause confusion at the time) confuses them also contributes to it.
We'll probably be updating it to either Java 16 or 17 at some point, since Java 11 (what it's currently on) is long in the tooth, but we will obviously package the game with it when we do.