1.4 TRANSLATOR:
RealmSpeak
currently requires that you have Java 1.5 or greater. That's fine
if you are running a current OS, and this installation is
available. However, there are a number of you that cannot get
Java 1.5, because your OS only supports Java 1.4. The only
example of this that I'm aware of, is if you are running on an older
Mac, and don't have the latest Mac OS. For some odd reason, you
cannot install anything greater than Java 1.4, and thus RealmSpeak is
unplayable.
Anyway,
there is a solution. One fan of the game pointed me to a utility
that allows you to backwards translate a java program compiled for 1.5,
into a Java 1.4 application:
Very
cool, and solves the problem described above nicely. Though I
still recommend that you get the latest Java version to play
RealmSpeak, this solution may help those of you that cannot.
To make it as easy as possible, I've bundled all the files you need into one zip file:
RealmSpeak
Java 1.4 Translator
Extract
the archive, and read the readme14.txt file for further
instructions.
Once you
convert RealmSpeak.jar into RealmSpeak14.jar, you will have to use one
of the xxx14.bat files to launch the program every time. Also,
each new release of RealmSpeak will have to be converted this
way. I would do it for you, but it would make the downloads
bigger, and really only benefit a handful of people.
Thanks
to Jorge Arroyo for pointing me to this utility!
Robin
