Technical Info

Chompy Games Arcade is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) application. This means that each time the application is run, it checks the server to make sure it has the latest version. If the server has been updated, then the application will download the parts that it needs to come back up to date.

The benefits of this architecture are enormous:

• New features and games instantly become available to everybody when they are deployed to the server.
• Everybody always has the latest bug-fixes and security patches: there's no risk that out of date software will cause ongoing problems.
• Games can be downloaded in parts. This is especially useful for games with many levels or characters.
• Multi-player network games are much easier to build because the communication framework is an integral part of the application design.
• Binary compatibility issues (aka DLL-hell) are eliminated completely.

Because the application is scripted instead of compiled it is very safe to apply updates by components, instead of requiring a complete upgrade.

Open Source

Chompy Games Arcade is built on top of many free open source systems including:

• Jakarta Tomcat
• Apache Derby
• Jython
• PostgreSQL
• Jakarta Http Client

Sound

Chompy Games Arcade uses Java OpenAL for sound on platforms where it is supported. Other platforms use the Java Sound system. Anecdotally Java Sound results are acceptable (audio can be heard and is clear), however with the user misses out on the 3D sound experience.

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Microsoft Windows	Chompy_Games_Windows.exe	22 MB	Easiest installation: everything you need in one simple installer.
	Chompy_Games_Windows_Without_Java.exe	8 MB	If you already have Java installed, you can download this file, which is much smaller. Recommended Java Version: 1.6 Minimum Java Version: 1.4
	Java runs on all Windows versions: 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, 2008 Server, Windows 7, etc. (32-bit)
Mac OSX	Chompy_Games_OSX.pkg.zip	9 MB	Easiest installation: everything you need in one simple installer (requires administrator password).
	Chompy_Games_OSX.app.dmg	25 MB	Everything you need packaged as an application bundle, in one simple disk image.
	Chompy_Games_OSX.dmg Double-click 'ChompyGamesLauncher.jar' to play.	20 MB	Everything you need in one disk image (non-packaged).
	Note that Java is already installed by default in MacOSX. Intel architecture is supported.
Linux	Chompy_Games_Linux.bin $ chmod 755 Chompy_Games_Linux.bin $ ./Chompy_Games_Linux.bin	43 MB	Easiest installation: everything you need in one simple installer.
	Chompy_Games_Linux_Without_Java.bin $ chmod 755 Chompy_Games_Linux_Without_Java.bin $ ./Chompy_Games_Linux_Without_Java.bin	9 MB	Easy installer if you already have Java.
	Chompy_Games_Linux.tar.bz2 $ tar xvfj Chompy_Games_Linux.tar.bz2 $ ./chompygames.sh	39 MB	Everything you need in one complete package.
	Chompy_Games_Linux_Without_Java.tar.bz2 $ tar xvfj Chompy_Games_Linux_Without_Java.tar.bz2 $ ./chompygames.sh	8 MB	If you already have the Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed, you can download this package. Recommended Java Version: 1.6 Minimum Java Version: 1.4
	Any 32-bit Linux distribution.
Solaris	Chompy_Games_Solaris.tar.bz2 $ tar xvfj Chompy_Games_Solaris.tar.bz2 $ ./chompygames.sh	8 MB	Note that Java is already installed by default in Solaris.
Any OS	Chompy_Games_AnyOS.zip	8 MB	Download Java, the Java OpenGL driver and optionally the Java OpenAL driver for your OS to play.