Wyvern Handheld Client — Download

Note: we discontinued work on the handheld clients in 2004, to focus on the core desktop offering. The handheld clients will continue to work, and if there is enough demand we may create versions for newer PDA devices. We're eyeing the iPhone, once its SDK is released.

You've reached the download page for the Wyvern Handheld Clients.

The Wyvern Handheld Client production release is currently version 3.1. You must use version 3.1 or later to connect to the game server. Older versions will no longer work properly.

Before You Download - Please Read

Wyvern is a big game, and it uses all the resources on your handheld device. On the Zaurus, in particular, you have to make sure there are no other applications running when you play Wyvern. This means:

• Don't have Terminal or File Manager running.
• Don't open your System Info application.
• Don't be logged into the Zaurus remotely, since that spawns both an embedded console and an ssh daemon.

You'll get the best results if you reboot before playing, if you were using any other applications on your device.

If you play Wyvern from a clean system, with no other apps running, then you should have a very good game experience. We've played for many hours straight.

If you try to play Wyvern while other applications or processes are running, you will sometimes see a dialog box that says: "Memory is very low. Please save your data." The system will give you this warning when free memory drops below approximately half a megabyte. You have three options when this happens:

1. You can ignore the dialog, by tapping on the Wyvern title bar to bring the app to the front. When we do this, we can usually continue playing for up to several hours.

2. You can quit Wyvern and restart the app, which will sometimes fix the problem, but not always. Usually the low-memory condition arises because non-Wyvern processes are eating up memory that Wyvern needs.

3. You can reboot your Zaurus and start Wyvern again. This is the recommended approach, and only takes about 30 seconds.

Wyvern is very stable, although it can experience occasional slowdowns from network lag or server lag. If the client ever locks up completely (an extremely rare occurrence), you can safely press the Cancel button on your Zaurus to terminate the app, and then restart it. You will continue where you left off playing. As long as you're disconnected, your character is "net-dead", which is a safe idle-state. You'll be logged out of the server after 15 minutes of inactivity.

We've never seen Wyvern run out of memory on the iPAQ. If it ever does, you can choose Start > Settings > System > Memory, and change the slider to allocate more memory to "Program" instead of "Storage". Great feature!

Download

Please read the system requirements before downloading.

Last Update:  Apr 17, 2003, 23:08pm PST.

Zaurus Users:

New! We now allow you to install the IPK file directly from the network.

For manual installation:

• Click here to download java-wyvern_3.1_arm.ipk

  If it shows up in your browser as a bunch of garbled text, shift-click on the link instead.

• After you've downloaded it, follow the Zaurus installation instructions to connect to the game server.

Note: If you're downloading the file directly to your Zaurus, you should consider using wget, since Opera sees the file as plain text rather than application/ipk or octet-stream.

iPAQ Users:

• Click here to download Pocket Wyvern 3.1 for the HP/Compaq iPAQ 3700, 3800 and 3900 series PocketPCs

• After you've downloaded it, follow the iPAQ installation instructions to connect to the game server.

Troubleshooting

If you've downloaded the app and installed it, but Wyvern doesn't launch properly when you tap on its icon, you should first double-check the Zaurus installation instructions or iPAQ installation instructions to make sure you followed them correctly.

If you think you've done everything correctly, then you are welcome to try out our troubleshooting document to help you send us enough information to fix the problem for you.

Uninstalling/Reinstalling

• run Add/Remove Programs to uninstall it
• exit Add/Remove Programs completely, until you get a big hourglass for about 10-12 seconds.

The iPAQ CAB file can be installed over the existing Wyvern installation without removing it first.

Zaurus Install From Network

To install from the network:

1. Tap on Add/Remove Software, and select "Install Packages via Networks"

2. The Package Manager window will open. Tap on the icon in the lower right, next to the magnifying class. It looks like a gold bar, or a peanut or something.

3. The Package Servers window will open. Tap "New", and type in "Wyvern" for the name, and this URL in the URL field:
   http://www.cabochon.com/downloads/zaurus

   Don't put a slash at the end, or it won't work.

4. Make sure you actually click on the "Wyvern" entry in the list to select it.

5. Tap on "OK" in the title bar to add our server to the list.

6. You should now see a list of packages. The Wyvern Zaurus Client is one of them. The others are just packages from Sharp's site that we find useful; you don't need them.

7. Tap on the Wyvern Zaurus Client and tap OK to install it.

Change log:

• 04/17/03 (updated version 3.1) - fixed some bugs preventing the clients from launching. Tested on Compaq iPAQ and Sharp Zaurus 5500.

• 04/15/03 (version 3.1) - more protocol changes, to support new features in the web client. You need this version to connect now.

• 02/20/03 (version 3.0) - protocol changes to support new kinds of clients. Required in order to connect.

• 02/08/03 (version 2.2) - added in hundreds of new images from Wizards, including entirely new artwork from Legolas for the village of New Verden. Also fixed a really nasty bug in the launch script - the classpath was set incorrectly, so the game wouldn't use new artwork that it downloaded. This is why the 2.1 users' artwork gradually got out of sync with the server. The problem is fixed in version 2.2, and you will get new artwork updates automatically.

• 10/10/02 (version 2.1) - final version for the JPDA 2002 Application Developers contest. Contains the final icon bar, new backgrounds for some views, and a Help window.

• 10/04/02 (version 2.0) - added progress dialog and made some UI improvements. Client protocol changed for the alpha channel (for web client), so you have to have at least this version to connect.

• 10/01/02 (version 1.8):
  • more memory improvements on Zaurus
  • fixed updating inv/ground displays when dropping/getting items
  • fixed blinky text display on Zaurus
  • fixed font selection on Zaurus
  • fix so you can select all popup menu options on the bottom item in inventory

• 9/29/02 (version 1.7) - replaced the buttons with an icon bar, improved the HP/SP display, fixed some bugs with wrapping long lines of text, tweaked the text colors, and fixed various UI/layout problems.

• 9/28/02 (version 1.6) - completely replaced the text output area with a custom widget. It does word wrapping, has color text, a background parchment image, and (best of all) no longer has the nasty scrolling bugs on the Z.

• 9/27/02 (version 1.5) - sped up connection to server on ipaq, plus miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.

• 9/21/02 (version 1.4) - misc changes to get it working on the HP/Compaq iPAQ.

• 9/18/02 (version 1.3) - added splash screen, and compressed installation files to make it smaller.

• 9/17/02 (version 1.2) - added new hot-button (purple), lowered max heap size to 7MB in launch script, and made a few UI tweaks (keyboard focus problems, mostly).

• 9/15/02 (version 1.1) - reduced memory consumption

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