Appendix: About the CD-ROM

The companion CD-ROM for Practical Java Game Programming contains all of the figures from the book, all the examples from the text, as well as additional libraries and materials as listed. In addition, we have included the Sun J2DK.

The folders contained on the CD-ROM include:

 Figures:  all the figures from the book by chapter

 Code:  examples, libraries, and materials from each chapter

Sun J2DK:  the latest version of the Sun J2DK 1.4.2_04 as well as Java3D, and JOGL for Linux, MacOSX and Win32.

For Java:

Go into the Installs\JDK_1_4_2_04 directory and run appropriate JDK installer for your OS.

For Java3D:

Go into the Installs\Java3D directory and run appropriate Java3D installer for your OS.

For JOGL:

Copy  JOGL.jar to project directory. Find appropriate JOGL binaries for your OS and copy to working or lib directory.

For more information see:

http://java.sun.com/

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/3D/index.jsp

https://jogl.dev.java.net/

System Requirements

• Window 2000 or better, Linux or MacOSX

• Pentium 1Ghz or better

• 100M free hard drive space

• For 3D graphics examples, OpenGL 1.2 accelerated video support is required.

• For some 3D graphics examples full OpenGL 1.4 support is required

A complete listing of all files can be found in the About the CD-ROM document included on the CD-ROM itself.