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by anthk 101 days ago
I still can't get java2dis (or whatever is calling) running into Inferno. Which might be interesting as I still have an old as hell Java point and click adventure game (made with a semi-infamous one in Spain from back in the day for amateur/indie games). I think it was done with Java 1.2/1.3.

Current JRE/JDK's run it in a bad way (threads get borked) since Java 1.6/OpenJDK 7 I think. Now, if Inferno supported Java 1.4 or something close to the old Kaffe+Jikes it would be really nice to get legacy stuff working.
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pjmlp 100 days ago
From the surviving documentation it appears it was based on Java 1.1.3, and called j2d, which ironically it is similar to what Java to Dex ended up being on Android.

https://scispace.com/pdf/using-inferno-to-execute-java-on-sm...

I also assume it wasn't something they cared that much about, as I could not find the original source code on the Inferno open source repo.

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