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1996

RainbowText
A simple, but nice effect: let your text cycle through all the colors in the spectrum. Source included.
December 16, 1996

puzzle15
This classic puzzle allows you to toggle between number tiles and image tiles and includes the source.
December 6, 1996

tree
A simple "Snow Falling On Cedar" animation. Images, sound, and message are all hard-coded. Edit tree.java and recompile to personalize.
December 4, 1996

Connect4
Just like you remember from when you were a kid, but the computer opponent is tougher than your friends were! Source included.
December 1, 1996

ShapesApplet
A simple applet to illustrate multithreaded programming. It consists of shapes, each running in its own thread that ebb and flow at different rates.
October 31, 1996

NF4
Draws line graphs, bar charts, or pie charts according to user-defined parameters. Source included!
October 2, 1996

Mand
Navigates around the Mandelbrot fractal. Source included.
October 1, 1996

jsTextAnimation_Nami
An attractive text and image animator, with background effects.
September 30, 1996

Spiro
Draws spirographs according to various user-defined parameters.
September 27, 1996

fire
Fire is another free visual applet you can use to heat up your Web site. And of course, source code is included!
September 26, 1996

AnimText
Based on Sun Microsystems' NervousText, this applet lets you color and animate your text.
September 25, 1996

MktView
This sophisticated applet reads stock data from a server (which you need to supply) and graphs the daily information based on settings you determine. Source is included in the zip file.
September 24, 1996

animateButton
Frames-compatible animated buttons, with sound effects and source code.
September 23, 1996

SimplePlot
Plots simple two-dimensional functions according to user specifications. Source included.
September 20, 1996

Graph
The classic network-mapping applet from Sun Microsystems. Source included!
September 19, 1996

acNeilson
Let your web site visitors see how long they've been viewing your page. Source included.
September 18, 1996

Chart
A parameter-based bar chart. Parameters can be set dynamically from a cgi or JavaScript. Source included!
September 17, 1996

AllLights
The objective of this puzzle is to turn on all of the lights in a 5x5 grid.
September 16, 1996

PocketCalc
This freeware applet simulates a basic pocket calculator. Source included!
September 13, 1996

piano
A neat virtual player piano. Source is included and has notes hard-coded in it.
September 12, 1996

LED
This applet mimics an LED sign that you typically see displaying messages at airport terminals and the such. Configurable, scriptable, and source is included!
September 11, 1996

fireworks
A configurable fireworks simulator. Source included!
September 10, 1996

Othello
Othello, aka Reversi. A derivative of the classic 'Go', your objective is to fill the board with your color by surrounding your opponent. Source included!
September 9, 1996

Geodetic2
This pop-up applet allows you to calculate the distance between any two points in the world. Source included!
September 6, 1996

Yahtzee
A Java version of the 'Poker with Dice' game you played as a kid. Source included.
August 31, 1996

billsClock
An attractive analog clock with a moving second hand.
June 12, 1996

NervousText
The classic, obnoxious, jumping-text applet. Source included!
April 12, 1996

centipedo
Rid your garden of pests in this classic video game.
March 26, 1996

Polymap
Uses information stored in the application-specific fields of GIF files to form image maps.
March 15, 1996

JitterText
Wiggling multi-colored text, with adjustable background color, text color, size, and speed. Source included.
March 8, 1996

TickTock
A Java application that permits synchronization of the host computer's clock with the master clock at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
March 4, 1996

solitaire
A quick puzzle: Remove all 44 marbles from the board. Source included.
February 28, 1996

Julia
Generates a Julia Set when a complex number is chosen from an image of the Mandelbrot Set. Source included.
February 27, 1996

DigClk
A simple, free, and nice-looking digital clock.
February 23, 1996

TagArea
Adds pop-up description tags to the ImageMap applet.
February 19, 1996

AddImgHW
A Java application that will add HEIGHT and WIDTH parameters to IMG tags in HTML documents.
February 16, 1996

ANButton
ANButton.class loads up to 10 images in a sequence, using image1 as a background and animating the others in the foreground.
February 14, 1996

gb2
The applet acts as a mailform interface that can post to a guestbook.
February 7, 1996

JackhammerDuke
A vibrating image with sound effects (can be used to denote "Under Construction"). The included source code is a good introduction to programing animation in Java.
January 26, 1996

Tower
Towers of Hanoi--a puzzle that involves transferring blocks from one spot to another. Source included.
January 19, 1996

SpinTop
An animation applet that can be reversed by a mouse click.
January 8, 1996

PentominosSolver
In the game of Pentominos, the goal is to place the 12 possible groupings of 5 tiles on an 8-by-8 board, leaving 4 blank squares. This java applet solves this puzzle using a recursive backtracking procedure.
January 6, 1996

DueDateCalculator
Pregnant? Or know someone who is? This simple utility will calculate estimated due date as well as expected length and weight. Source included!
January 5, 1996

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