The article has come and gone and you punks didn't play much anyway. So we took down the servers. However, that doesn't mean that you can't download the code and run your own server. Being magnanimous sorts, we let anyone have the source code to things written in Deep Magic. Feel free to bend, fold and mutilate.

Pick your flavor: gzipped tar file or zip file.

Once you've got it downloaded, unpacked, and compiled, you need to do three things:

• Create an html file with an applet tag that loads the wordgame applet:

  <applet width=500 height=400
   codebase="/wherever/you/put/wordgame_src/"
   code="dclient.Rendevous"></applet>
  

• Run the wordgame server on the machine from which you will serve the wordgame applet:

  % cd /path/to/wordgame_src/
  % java dserver.Server
  

• Create a dictionary for the validate.pl script to use when validating words. This is done with the create_dict.pl script. I'll let the cat out of the bag that I'm a Unix weenie and warn you that it's a Unix-centric script. It expects an input file formatted like /usr/dict/words (a list of words, one per line) with which to seed the dictionary. It also expects to be able to place a dictionary in /var/preserve/words. A resourceful hacker should easily be able to modify these two scripts to function on her system without problem.

  % ./create_dict.pl /usr/dict/words
  

That's all there is to it. Good luck!