Here is a new applet that renders nice flames in real time. The applet precalculates the color palette that is used on flame rendering.
The downloadable package includes the NetBeans 4.1 project files along with compiled class files. Check it out over here.
NetBeans.org have published two of my J2ME MIDlet tutorials that I wrote for their Win With NetBeans competition. Follow the links below to read the tutorials:
How to create and use Mobile Class Library with NetBeans 4.0
How to create a J2ME MIDP RSS Reader application with NetBeans 4.0
You can also download the finished RSS Reader MIDlet application here.
A Little break from Java development. Here is an example of lower level programming in form of a traditional snake game. The Snake game runs on Texas Instruments TI-89 calculator. The game is programmed with the C language and includes grayscale graphics and sprite handling among other things. I have included the source code along with TIGCC project file in the downloadable package. Check it out.