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What happens when you try to run it? Do you get an error message?

If you've run Invade Earth before, and now the update won't work... try this---
From the command shell try "javaws" or "javaws -viewer". Uninstall Invade Earth, then get the new version.

You really shouldn't have to do that (thx Web Start), but it might help.

[The new version splits the program in a way that will make most future updates faster.]

I tried that but it still doesn't run. I uninstalled and reinstalled a number (around 5) times, but can't get it working, although it worked fine as of yesterday morning.

When I try to run it it shows the little title window
"Invade Earth
Jonathan Crosmer"

and after 3 seconds or so the window goes away and nothing happens. If I click to launch the program again, the same happens.

Thanks for your help, I hope we can figure this out.

The same happens for me...

Open the Java control panel. Choose Temporary Internet Files > View. From the drop down box, change Applications to Resources. Look for InvadeEarthResources.jar (2562 kB).
You need that jar (as well as InvadeEarth.jar) file to execute. Do you have it?

If it isn't there, uninstalling Invade Earth and then clicking the link on the Smiley Pro website should get it.

Tried finding it, couldn't, although after I uninstalled Invade Earth and reinstalled it from the website, and while it was updating it showed that the .jar files were downloading. Still couldn't find the .jar files though and it still won't run.

I'm working on it... Invade Earth appears to run fine from my computer. There's some weird problem with Web Start.

Ok, now try again. I pointed the links on the website to the jnlp files on sourceforge, which the jnlps themselves know in their href/codebase tags.

I even went in and deleted InvadeEarthResources.jar from my cache and it grabbed it before launching Invade Earth.

Let me know if it works.

*** by try again I mean use the links on the website, since the jnlp file has "moved."

I tried again. No luck. I'm fairly sure I'm doing everything you're saying correctly. Web start says its updating and downloading everything and I think I may actually have the Jar files after all, as it has files like "Black fleet army" etc. But no specific "InvadeEarthResources.jar" file. If no one else is having this problem still, would you mind giving me a step-by-step on what I should do in laymen's terms.

I really appreciate your help. This is a great game, I'd been playing it pretty much whenever I had some free time since I downloaded it.

Btw, the old version worked, is there anyway I could revert back to it and run it? I tried redownloading the old one, but it forced an update afterwards.

If it doesn't work for you, it's probably broken for at least some other people.
I don't want to put the old version back up except as a last resort, because then I can't ever update it...
Do you know what version of Java you have?
(Start > Run > "cmd" > "java -version")

I just tried it on another computer with java 1.5 and it didn't work......

I think that's the problem. (I just tested it on another computer.) When I created a sub-project in Invade Earth to hold the resource jar, I probably forgot to set the compile options to v. 1.5, so it used my latest version Java, which is 1.6. It's probably failing silently with a "wrong java version" in the background.

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Since I may end up using Java 6 features anyway, I've already fixed the compatibility issues with it, and it's the version I'm running on my computer, I'm going to change the JNLP files to require version 6.

scratch that. I forgot silly Apple hasn't made Java 6 available for Mac yet. I'll have to recompile the project with 5 and put that version up.

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ok it's up.
Now update once more and it should work. The jars have been recompiled with Java 5.

It's working again! Thank you so much Harvy and everyone else involved in this project and site. I really appreciate it all.

Thanks---I'm glad it's fixed.