Applets at Other Web Sites (Alpha)

Note: The applets listed on this page run only in the 1.0Alpha3 HotJava browser. To see applets that the Netscape Navigator(tm) 2.0 browser will be able to run, see our list of Beta applets.

This page is split up into sections:

• Games and Other Diversions
• Applets to Spice Up a Page
• Educational Applets
• Utilities
• For Programmers Only
• Collections of Applets
• Java Powered Home Pages

Note: We're no longer adding to this page. See the Gamelan website to find more applets.

Games and Other Diversions

Life: http://www.ids.net/~as220/josh.html

Another implementation of the game of Life.

Jigsaw Puzzle: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/People/yvonne/java/puzzle.html

The electronic version of a seemingly simple wooden puzzle.

Writing Pad: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~ronen/pad.html

A simple paint program.

Cat Band: http://www.nasoft.com/catband/index.html

Takes a while to load, but if you're curious about what a cat garage band looks and sounds like (or if you want to be a drummer for a garage band), check out this site.

Froggy Applets: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/sjl/froggy/java/leapfrog.html

Two applets -- one where you catch frogs, and one where a frog tries to catch you. Source included.

Programmer's Minesweeper: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/

For programmers only: Implement a winning strategy for Minesweeper.

Zine: http://www.fanzine.se/java/jo/zine.html

Read an online, annotated fanzine in any of several languages.

Robot War: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/java/grid/robots.html

The classic game of robots, with pretty graphics, etc. It can be configured with different images for the player, robots, dead robots, and background.

Xylophone: http://www.servonet.com/javaStuff/Welcome.html

A good music loop (with animation) and a cute xylophone applet.

Reversi: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~bf2c/java/reversi.html

A second Reversi game. (See the first one below.) If you're a Sun employee, this inside-Sun copy might download faster.

Johan's Magic Marker Hack: http://www.rosebud.com/rb/art/jo/jo.html

Doodle on fine art!

MineSweep: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/s/Viren.Shah/java/mine/minesweeper.html

A simple game of finding all the mines in a field.

Another MineSweep: http://www.cdt.luth.se/~unicorn/Java/applets/MineSweep/MineSweep.html

Another implementation of MineSweep.

Shinkei Suijaku: http://www.linc.or.jp/~hamano/game/shinsui/Shinsui.html

A Japanese card game.

Crossword Puzzle: http://www.starwave.com/people/haynes/crosswordEntry.html

Interactive crossword puzzle with immediate feedback.

Video Poker: http://www.asel.udel.edu/~haynes/videopoker.html

Gambling on the internet!

Bowling: http://java.sun.com/people/avh/Bowling/GoBowling.html

Keep your score!

Tetris: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/nathanw/java/Tetris.html

The familiar game.

Reversi: http://www.fish.com/~muffy/reversi.html

A foolishly greedy game of Reversi.

Life: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~afs/hj/life.html

On-screen evolution.

Applets to Spice Up a Page

Advertising Board: http://www.virtual-inn.co.uk

A revolving sponsorship board, similar to the ones found at European soccer grounds. Click it to visit the sponsor that's currently displayed.

Meteor Field: http://www.isbiel.ch/~reusr1/Intro/Intro.html

Big chunks of rock pass in front of a nebula. Source included.

MapZine: http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mbp/mapzine/test.html

Improves on image maps by allowing irregular active areas within an image and by putting descriptive text in pop-up windows. Source included.

Particles that Chase the Cursor: http://tesla.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/java/

You can customize the number of particles, size, gravity, maximum velocity, background image, and message string. Source included.

Interactive Vector Graphics Display: http://www-elec.enst.fr/~dufourd/edit.html

Displays the contents of a simple ASCII file, letting the user zoom and pan at will. The ASCII file can specify rectangles, lines, and strings with positions and colors.

Sideways Stars: http://vvv.com/m2/public_html/m2java.html

An animated starfield. Source included.

New, Improved Nervous Text: http://www.spd.eee.strath.ac.uk/~matthew/java/NervousText.html

Daniel Wyszynski's venerable applet, improved to take text, font, point, and spacing attributes. Now you don't have to be a programmer to use it!

Fireworks: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~wistrand/fireworks.html

Fireworks on your home page.

Liny: http://www.cs.umr.edu/~johns/java/

Bouncing lines.

Nervous Text etc.: http://forte.poly.edu:8000/

It will drive you crazy!

Educational Applets

Binary Tree Demo: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~yogendra/input.html

Teaches students how binary trees work.

A Simple Neural Network: http://crux3.cit.cornell.edu/~mlh1/

A binary Hopfield net that you can impose patterns upon using the mouse. Source included.

Animation of Fax/Image Transmission: http://www.ntm.co.jp/docomo/demo/demo01.htm

Part of the NTT website. Plays some background music, as well.

MOS Transistor Simulator: http://www-elec.enst.fr/~dufourd/tp_english.html

An interactive simulator that will be used in an introductory electrical engineering course. The link above is to an English page. A more complete page is in French.

The Platonic Solids: http://vvv.com/m2/public_html/platonic.html

3D interactively rotating Platonic solids, with one double-buffered and one single-buffered solid per applet, for comparison. Source included.

Mandelbrot: http://www.netgen.com/~mkgray/java/Mandel.html

Allows graphical interactions with the Mandelbrot set.

Annotating Pictures of Study Sites: http://teaparty.terc.edu/java/z/glob.html

Pop-up descriptions for pictures, at the Testbed for Telecollaboration at TERC.

Learn to Dance: http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/dance/JDance-e.html

Demonstrates some basic dance figures (slow waltz, tango, slow fox, foxtrot) in real time with audio. The link above is to the English version. There's also a German one.

Color Perception: http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/graphics/projects/igi/spectrum/

A tutorial on color perception, with interactive illustrations.

Statistics: http://www.thomtech.com/~suresh/java

Animated sampling distributions from statistics.

An Interactive Simulation of Eddy-Current Sensors: http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb16/ipm/mt/java/javae.html

An attempt to make eddy-current sensors understandable by interactive simulation. The link above is to the English version. There's also a German one.

CMOS Gate Demonstration: http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/fun/javademo/cmosdemo/cmosdemo.html

A demonstration of CMOS basic and complex gates -- inverter, NAND, NOR, etc. (The applets require a color display.) The link above is to the English version. There's also a German one.

The Frog Pond: http://sepwww.stanford.edu/pub/sep/krl/FrogPond/FrogPond.html

Interactively simulates waves, using the image of a frog jumping in a pond.

Expanded Sort Applet: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html

New demonstrations of a pile of sort algorithms.

Graph Algorithms: http://www.essi.fr/~waldura/graphs.html

Animation that illustrates graph algorithms (shortest path, depth-first search, etc.).

Limaçons: http://www.dnai.com/~lisam/lime.html

An interactive applet that draws simple geometric figures called Limaçons.

Juggling: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/juggling/

Three animations teach you how to juggle.

Computer Graphics: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/tyr/urop.html

Teaching computer graphics.

Phasor: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~yuri/java/phasor.html

An attempt to explain the concept of phasor.

Lissajous Figure Display: http://www.ee.cit.ac.nz/~h_anders/hotjava.html

Lissajous figure display. The pattern can be changed with the mouse.

Fast Fourier Transform: http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~calum/java/fft.html

FFT modulus of a simple wave form.

Abacus: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/abacus.html

A tutorial on calculating with an abacus.

Utilities

Prototype Shopping Environment: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~ronen/shop_m.html

Drag items you want to buy into a shopping cart.

Commission Pricer: http://www.intrepid.com/~robertl/index.html

How much will it cost you to sell that stock? This applet knows about many brokers (and gives you their phone numbers).

Form-Like Applet: http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb16/ipm/mt/java/javae.html

A configuration applet sends email if you press a button. The link above is to the English version. There's also a German one. Source included.

Virtual Inn:

The Grey Calculator of Justice: http://vvv.com/m2/public_html/calc.html

A calculator in its own window. Source included.

WebTap: http://www.ebt.com/WebTap/home.html

A stress tester for web servers.

Europa's Applets: http://www.icon-stl.net/Europa/java/

Three applets: a chat room (IRC client), a cartoony scalable gauge, and an image scrolling area.

Hotel Search Tool: http://www.virtual-inn.co.uk/hotel_name.html

Pops up a window with a search form, so you can change your search parameters while you look at the search results.

Option Pricer: http://www.intrepid.com/~robertl/index.html

Prices financial options.

HTML Sizer Applet: http://www.starwave.com/people/jpayne/sizer.html

Displays the total size of an HTML page including images and applets.

HTML Verifier: http://www.starwave.com/people/jpayne/verify.html

Verifies all of the links in an HTML document.

Who Is On a Port: http://www.arcade.com/cgi-bin/swewho

Displays a customizable table of who is on a particular port.

GIS: http://www.dis.anl.gov:8001/GIS/C

Dynamic interaction with a remote GIS application.

For Programmers Only

ActiveButton and ActiveLink: http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~np2/java/button/button.html

ActiveButton lets you create applets that act like GUI buttons. You can configure them with normal, active, and pushed images, as well as an animation sequence to play when the user clicks the button. ActiveLink is an example subclass of ActiveButton that acts as a hyperlink.

Embedding UI Components in Applets: http://www.starwave.com/people/jpayne/java/

How to embed user interface components, such as buttons, inside applets.

Collections of Applets

Orbital Technologies: http://www.virtual-inn.co.uk/orbital/java.html

A collection of applets from an early Java developer. Includes Life, FFT, Breakout, Hotel Search, Restaurant Search, Pub Search, Advertising, Footsteps, and Lottery Machine.

VPRO: http://www.vpro.nl/htbin/scan/www/interaktief/java/nono.html

We mistakenly had this under "Java Powered Home Pages" for too long. This page has links to many cool applets. Source included.

Chilly's Applets: http://cac.psu.edu/~chilly/applets

Scrolling text, a star field, and pyrotechnics. Source included.

Australian National University: http://cssa.anu.edu.au/Java.html

Student-written applets, such as a 3D starfield. Source included.

Dimension X: http://www.dimensionx.com/dnx/java.html

Many applets, including image display applets, and a starfield simulation with scrolling text.

HotWired: http://www.hotwired.com:80/java/

Several applets, including TickerTape (a widely-used scrolling text applet) and Movie.

Java Powered Home Pages

The MatriX Publishing Network: http://www.mpn.com/

BASIS Inc.: http://www.basisinc.com/

NTM Shopping: http://www.ntm.co.jp/

Cybersight: http://cybersight.com/

Sun Germany: http://www.sun.de/

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: http://www.db.erau.edu/index.java.html

Branson School (a high school): http://branson.org

Department of Engineering Measurement, University of Kassel:

http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb16/ipm/mt/welcomee.html (English)
http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb16/ipm/mt/welcome.html (German)

Gary Suen's Home Page: http://metro.turnpike.net/S/suen_g/java.html

Alva's Home Page: http://affect.org/~stuart/java/

Spinning Globe: http://www.process.com/Launch/launchpd.htm

Sun Home Page: http://www.sun.com:80/index.html

Better Bad News: http://www.georgecoates.org/

HotWired (new URL): http://www.hotwired.com/login/overview.html

Dimension X: http://www.dimensionx.com/

NandO Times: http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/nt/nando.html

Rolling Stones: http://www.stones.com/javaindex.html

Drawing Lines; FTP Users: http://www.cdt.luth.se/~peppar/java.html

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