Flash News Bulletin - A Nasty Horde of Soccer Robots are on route from China to Denmark !
We peek in on a commander yelling at a sergeant somewhere over the internet tubes.
commander: Sergeant, I need you to get into MK I Lazer Tower #1 and knock out that robot soccer horde pronto ! sgt: But SIR, I have never trained on that unit before ?!? commander: I don't give marshmallow's teet, now get your ass in that thing before I vaporize you on the spot ! sgt: YES SIR !
This is it. A 100' climb on a perilous ladder and you throw yourself into the cockpit of the giant lazer canon. I can't believe this, you repeat to yourself. I don't know how to work this thing. How the hell am I going to figure this out? You fumble around with some of the switches, and the console lights up with a login & password prompt. You swiftly type in your name and guess a password. It worked! Your in ! Then ......
Sparks and smoke ! Wires fall from the ceiling. "What a piece of ■■■■■■ you say to yourself and curse the malevolent engineers who made this pile of junk. Oh well, here goes nothing.
Your Mission if You Choose :
1. login with your lmr handle 2. figure out some of the secret key strokes (credits to Darwin Bot & rik for the idea !) 3. report bugs, strange behavior, lewd and lascivious actions ! 4. comment & screen print some of your successes ! 5. suggest how we can make a better, less "piece of ■■■■■■■■■■■ lazer tower MK II.
10 points for visuals, and the voice on Ustream. I want that poster printed out, please provide larger file
The java: Could not make it work. Mac, would not load. PC, would load, had trouble overseeing the UI, understood it (I think), bu could not log in. Just nothing happened when trying.
10 bonus points for the laugh. I cannot believe that already BEFORE we have managed to get this difficult game up and running, you … well… It’s like “We chose to go to the moon. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard” - and then GroG says “Let me put some frogs in your rockets, man!”
Ok, I enabled the console and logging, when i try to lauch the applet it failes, and I get two errors in console:
Java Plug-in 1.5.0 Using JRE version 1.5.0_24 Java HotSpot™ Client VM User home directory = /Users/grahamsargent ---------------------------------------------------- c: clear console window f: finalize objects on finalization queue g: garbage collect h: display this help message l: dump classloader list m: print memory usage o: trigger logging p: reload proxy configuration q: hide console r: reload policy configuration s: dump system and deployment properties t: dump thread list v: dump thread stack x: clear classloader cache 0-5: set trace level to <n> ---------------------------------------------------- basic: Referencing classloader: sun.plugin.ClassLoaderInfo@5983b7, refcount=1 basic: Loading applet… basic: Initializing applet… basic: Added progress listener: sun.plugin.util.GrayBoxPainter@cf6f61 basic: Referencing classloader: sun.plugin.ClassLoaderInfo@5983b7, refcount=2 basic: Releasing classloader: sun.plugin.ClassLoaderInfo@5983b7, refcount=1 java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:676) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:173) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:317) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:145) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:659) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:786) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1873) at jep.AppletFramePanel.createApplet(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:715) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:369) at jep.AppletFramePanel.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613) basic: Exception: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:676) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:173) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:317) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:145) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:659) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:786) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1873) at jep.AppletFramePanel.createApplet(Unknown Source) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:715) at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:369) at jep.AppletFramePanel.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Applet loaded fine (Vista 64bit + Firefox + JRE 1.6.0_20-b02 and Kubuntu too). Didn’t get much control of anything but I got that light(?) going brighter every now and then. Lag between pressing a key and seeing “the bright light” on video was about 3 seconds.
Those logs go blank once in a while for me too.
That weird freezing issue is still there (the one I wrote about in Live soccer robots on LMR thread). At least it’s not a browser issue as it happens with IE too. (I thought it could be because Firefox has been giving me hard time.)
Thanks for all the testing support. At this point the Tower is OFFLINE, when I came in this morning it was face down dead. (very slapstick) Fortunately, the software did not crash - complete mechanical failure, with Servo gear being stripped.
You’ve scattered those nasty smurfs - now its time to clean up ! I have decided to become distracted (BUTTERFLY!) by making MK 1.1 MOBILE Lazer tower… BWA HA HA HA - so you can roll around and find the hidden guys !
But, my supreme commander has informed me I have choirs to do, so it will take time.
Sorry UltraMagnus, I thought it would be 1.5 compatible - but it appears there are a few parts which have dependencies on Java 1.6. At some point I will go back and see if the 1.6 dependencies can be removed. Thanks for the good info.
