Re: Needed : Apple //gs test subjects

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article 
<7c6ec9fc-2599-425a-88bd-c9a7e50fd18f@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
 Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 24, 4:46 pm, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Okay, I've downloaded and installed the latest version of Java for the
> > Mac, Java for OS X 10.4.11 Release 7. When I try to launch AGS I get
> > an error message "The jar file "ags.jar" couldn't be launched. Check
> > the Console for possible error messages. When I open up the Console
> > here is the error message I see:
> >
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
> > InputStream cannot be null
> >         at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:94)
> >         at ags.game.Games.parseConfiguration(Games.java:139)
> >         at ags.game.Games.readFromFile(Games.java:74)
> >         at ags.Main.main(Main.java:74)
> >
> > Any clue what is going on and how to fix it? I'd really like to try
> > AGS on my GS, since I was the one who asked if it could be made to run
> > on the GS. I'm using a Mac Mini G4/1.42GHz with 512MB RAM.
> >
> > Dean
> 
> Unfortunately, your version of Java might be too old, and if that is
> the case, you're going to need Leopard and a 64-bit Intel processor to
> get a new enough version (so a Core 2-based Mac.)

Dean: you might try the shell command "java -version". I'm sure I had 
1.5 running under 10.4.11. I seem to recall it being included in 
software update.

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