July 6, 1998

After a brief vacation, I have resumed work on Epoch. I have downgraded the server version to 0.5, since I am changing the protocol around a little, and there are bugs and parts that are too incomplete for it to be 1.0. Here is a little shot of the 'create a game' mode. I think I will be changing this around a lot, because I don't like how it is implemented, so it may look a lot different. Also, I may put some sort of mailing list together, so if you are interested, visit the lists page.

Basically, things are going well and I should be able to start doing some Beta testing when I return to school at the end of August.

July 14, 1998

This week I've done a good deal of work on the server, so now it logs stuff and can be a daemon. I've unfortunately made some important changes in the protocol, so things got set back a little, but they are progressing. It seems that the java client works on IE4, which I guess is good. Tic Tac Toe: "soon"

July 27, 1998

This past weekend was a bit exciting. I got to battle filesystem corruption and spontaneous rebooting. One new motherboard (and soon a SCSI card) later, nothing new has been done on Epoch. And nothing will get done this week, since I will be in Florida. But I decided I should put the new site stuff up before I left, in case anyone wanted to see my lack of HTML skills.

Also of note: I obtained some hardware and have assembled what may be the epoch server host. It's only a 486, but that makes it a challenge to write some fast clean code...

Oh yeah, one more thing. I downloaded Beta 1 of Netscape Navigator 4.5 the other day, and after one workaround (for what I consider a bug) the Epoch applet logged in and worked. I was happy. So it looks like Epoch will run on IE 4.0, Netscape 4.5, and a good JDK/JRE 1.1.x for your platform.