The Game:

Inspired by the classic vidio game of PONG, this program adapts the game for network play with up to 8 players.

Copyright Peter Hanely, cal@splitreflection.com
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

MANIFEST

pong/ball.class
pong/ball.java
pong/gpl.txt - the license
pong/java.policy - a policy file granting access needed by RMI
pong/make - unix script to build classes from source
pong/polypong.class
pong/polypong.java
pong/polypong.txt
pong/pongRMI.class
pong/pongRMIInterface.class
pong/pongRMIInterface.java
pong/pongRMI.java
pong/pongRMI_Skel.class
pong/pongRMI_Stub.class
pong/pong.txt - the online help
pong/startpong - unix script to start rmiregistry and 2 instances of the game
pong/viewfile.class - displays help
pong/viewfile.java

running polypong, unix

- download pong.jar and save
- if you want to host others or play solo, run 'rmiregistry &'
- 'java -Djava.security.policy=java.policy -classpath pong.jar pong.polypong &'

running, windoze

- download pong.jar and save
- if you want to host others or play solo, run 'start rmiregistry'
- 'java -Djava.security.policy=java.policy -classpath pong.jar pong.polypong'