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Proudly announcing the first version of Laterna Magica!

• Requires Java 1.6
• Building and saving decks
• LQ gatherer card pictures and symbols
• Playing against yourself (you are both players) using the new combat rules (in fact, everything that *is* working should work according to the newest rules.)
• currently only lands and vanilla creatures (oh, and Llanowar Elves)

I think it's clear from the feature list that this won't give you the most fun Magic experience, but if you want to try the GUI and possibly give a little feedback, go ahead.

Download Laterna Magica: lm20100904.7z

Downlaod required libraries: lm20100904-lib.7z
The libraries are separate so that you don't need to download them along with subsequent versions (they take ~9.4MB).

On the first startup, an error will be shown. Just click it away, it should not show up again.

I strongly suggest to have Laterna Magica in its own directory.
After Unpacking lm20100904.7z, unpack lm20100904-lib.7z besides the contained jar.
On the first startup, Laterna Magica will unpack some resources and finish the "installation". After that, these directories will exist:

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.../lm20100904/LaternaMagica-20100904.jar
.../lm20100904/lib/...
.../lm20100904/res/...
.../res/...

${user.home}/.slightlymagic.net/laterna/...


Note that only a part lies within "lm20100904"; this means that card pictures, decks etc. will automatically be found in newer versions. Be sure to remove everything when you don't want Laterna Magica any more.

Doesn't really run

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Configuring from Resource /config.properties
Resolved to jar:file:/E:/mtg/laterna-magica/lm20100904/LaternaMagica-20100904.jar!/config.properties
DEBUG [main           ] (Configurator.java:58) configure log4j
DEBUG [main           ] (Configurator.java:58) configure LaternaMagicaCodeSource
DEBUG [main           ] (Configurator.java:58) configure PropertyTree
DEBUG [main           ] (Configurator.java:81) Execute log4j
INFO  [main           ] (Log4jConfigurator.java:60) Successfully configured logging from jar:file:/E:/mtg/laterna-magica/lm20100904/LaternaMagica-20100904.jar!/log4j.properties
INFO  [main           ] (ExceptionHandler.java:33) ExceptionHandler registered
DEBUG [main           ] (Configurator.java:81) Execute LaternaMagicaCodeSource
INFO  [main           ] (CodeSourceConfigurator.java:50) Code source determined as file:/E:/mtg/laterna-magica/lm20100904/
DEBUG [main           ] (Configurator.java:81) Execute PropertyTree
INFO  [main           ] (PropertyTreeConfigurator.java:57) Tree class: net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.PropertyTree
INFO  [main           ] (PropertyTreeConfigurator.java:58) Tree url: jar:file:/E:/mtg/laterna-magica/lm20100904/LaternaMagica-20100904.jar!/laterna.properties
WARN  [main           ] (Configurator.java:85) While running configurator PropertyTree
com.google.common.collect.ComputationException: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: c
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.types.PathType.toValue(PathType.java:101)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:86)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:93)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperty.getValue(DOM4JTreeProperty.java:164)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.types.StringType.toValue(StringType.java:86)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:86)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:93)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.types.PathType.toValue(PathType.java:67)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:86)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:93)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.types.IncludeType.toValue(IncludeType.java:66)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:86)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.TypeChain.toValue(TypeChain.java:93)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperty.getValue(DOM4JTreeProperty.java:164)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperty.getChildProperties(DOM4JTreeProperty.java:189)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperty.getChildren(DOM4JTreeProperty.java:206)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JNamedElement.updateFullName(DOM4JNamedElement.java:127)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JNamedElement.setParent(DOM4JNamedElement.java:52)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperty.getProperty(DOM4JTreeProperty.java:98)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperties$1.apply(DOM4JTreeProperties.java:100)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperties$1.apply(DOM4JTreeProperties.java:98)
   at com.google.common.collect.Lists$TransformingRandomAccessList.get(Lists.java:435)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperties$3.get(DOM4JTreeProperties.java:137)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperties$3.get(DOM4JTreeProperties.java:119)
   at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.next(Unknown Source)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JNamedElement.updateFullName(DOM4JNamedElement.java:128)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JNamedElement.setParent(DOM4JNamedElement.java:52)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.DOM4JTreeProperties.getProperties(DOM4JTreeProperties.java:75)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.IOUtils.createTreeProperties(IOUtils.java:106)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.PropertyTree.setRoot(PropertyTree.java:192)
   at net.slightlymagic.utils.PropertyTreeConfigurator.run(PropertyTreeConfigurator.java:60)
   at net.slightlymagic.utils.Configurator.execute(Configurator.java:83)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.LaternaMagica.init(LaternaMagica.java:50)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.gui.main.MainPane.main(MainPane.java:84)
Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: c
   at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at net.slightlymagic.treeProperties.dom4j.types.PathType.toValue(PathType.java:93)
   ... 33 more
DEBUG [main           ] (PropertyTree.java:80) properties == null
INFO  [main           ] (LaternaMagica.java:59) Loading...
DEBUG [main           ] (PropertyTree.java:80) properties == null
ERROR [main           ] (LaternaMagica.java:63) Error loading compiled cards; cards were not completely loaded.
LaternaMagica will now try to recreate the cards.
Below is the reason why loading failed
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.cards.AllCards.load(AllCards.java:75)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.LaternaMagica.init(LaternaMagica.java:60)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.gui.main.MainPane.main(MainPane.java:84)
INFO  [main           ] (LaternaMagica.java:70) Compiling...
DEBUG [main           ] (PropertyTree.java:80) properties == null
ERROR [main           ] (ExceptionHandler.java:48) An exception occurred. Thread "main" terminated.
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.cards.CompileHandler$ZipHandler.<init>(CompileHandler.java:117)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.cards.AllCards.compile(AllCards.java:60)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.LaternaMagica.init(LaternaMagica.java:71)
   at net.slightlymagic.laterna.magica.gui.main.MainPane.main(MainPane.java:84)


Haven't checked the source but this should be an easy fix, probably you don't create the file before accessing it.

hmm... this seems to be platform incompatibility. unix paths always start with "/", but windows with the drive letter. it seems my path-to-url conversion doesn't handle it right and thinks "C" is the protocol. I'll look into it, thanks

It wasn't even run on C drive so no clue why it chose that. Maybe "/" root translates to C drive however you use it.

no, LM creates user-specific data in your home directory, which is on C: