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Jake2 is still alive. We released version 0.9.5 with some new features and bugfixes.

changes since v0.9.4:
- quake video (cinematics) support including sound streaming
- save games are from now on build compatible
- support for arbitrary sound sample rates
- dedicated server mode
- lots of bugfixes

There is an updated webstart version of Jake2. The new version got a lot of bugfixes and improvements especially concerning the multiplayer server support. We have a permanent gameserver up and running with Jake2 in dedicated server mode. Just connect your Jake2 client to jake2.in-chemnitz.de or use the preconfigured webstart link:

http://www.bytonic.de/download/jake2_online.jnlp

improvements since v0.9.4:
-quake video (cinematics) support including sound streaming
-save games are now build compatible
-support for arbitrary sound sample rates
-dedicated server mode works now
-lots of bugfixes

The new version of the Java Quake2 engine comes with a lot of new features and improvements.

changes since version 0.9.3:
- multiplayer client and server functionality
- Mac OS X support
- webstart version
- experimental lwjgl driver
- standalone installer
- online installation of Quake2 demo data files
- mouse wheel support
- very fast screenshot function
- memory footprint reduced
- bugfixes

try http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2_webstart.html to start Jake2 direct from your web browser.

Changes since 0.9.3:

- webstart version
- LWJGL renderer (contributed by David Sanders)
- online installation of Quake2 demo data files
- multiplayer client functionality (with original Quake2 server)
- mouse wheel support
- bugfixes

With the new release savegames are working. So you can take a break on your mission.
Besides savegames ther are a lot of other improvements like command line completion in console, better fullscreen vidmode selection, improved performance and many bugfixes.
so go ahead and test yourself.

Finally we released Jake2-0.9.2. New features are the new "fastjogl" OpenGL renderer with massive performance improvements, the joal sound engine and fullscreen support on Windows.

The jogl team will show Jake2 at the JavaOne and at the WWDC as anJava OpenGL example.