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You may use the Linux Mint 9 Live-DVD with the contained Firefox.
If you can't make the applet run and really want to play, you can use the AppletViewer from the Oracle JDK and start it with the .htm file as argument. The applet should be stored at an offline location, if you use the AppletViewer.
An application version for command-line launch also exists and is more compatible.


Astro Solutions DarkworldM Applet
2.5.2023

DarkworldM (Darkworld magnetic) is a 2D space-shooting game for one or two players. The first player uses the mouse or the cursor keys and the second player uses the keys s, y, x and c to select his magnet base. With a mouseclick on a selected base, RETURN or the key a the players activate or deactivate a magnet. If the magnet is activated and the magnets coming from the upper side of the gamefield aren't already moving to a nearer and activated magnet, they move towards the players' base. If they hit an enemies' spacecraft, it is eliminated. The players must destroy 100 spacecrafts without collision with magnets and spacecrafts of the enemies to win the game. This game is quite similar to DarkwarM. Spacecrafts like the spacecrafts of the players of DarkwarM are coming from the lower side of the gamefield and they are attacked by the enemies.
Aliases of the steering keys can be defined in the dialog displayed first. If you only click "apply", you can use the key "z" as alias for the key "y", which makes sense for the US keyboard layout.
You can use ESC to quit the game.

This game is thread-safe. The applet is compatible to JAVA 1.1.8, MSJVM and JAVA 1.8 and uses a deprecated JAVA API.