Known Bugs

• HQ Control Panel Position -- The HQ Control Panel is supposed to always remain on top of the map display. However, on Windows 98/NT, the control panel moves behind the map when the user clicks on the map canvas (or sometimes even when the mouse simply moves onto the map). The control panel can be retrieved using the task bar.
• Security Holes -- An attempt has been made to prevent authors of contestant programs from accidentally accessing information on pieces that are not in sensor range. However, it is possible for a contestant to restrict the memory or CPU cycles available to the other player. This could be done by grabbing all the memory of the JVM or spawning children of the Board thread. Since the source code for each contestant is available, such techniques should be easily detected by the authors of the other contestants.

Known non-Bugs

• Applet org.gherrity.hq.gui.Main can't start: ERROR -- This occurs on some machines when running Netscape. It is caused by the classloader finding the class org.gherrity.hq.gui.Main on the local file system using the CLASSPATH environment variable. This local class is loaded rather than the class in the jar file from the URL. I just unset the CLASSPATH environment variable in the shell running Netscape.