Cobra Gunship Editor v0.8 beta
Presented by Home of the Underdogs
http://www.the-underdogs.org/

What it currently does: 

The editor lets you build external missions that can be loaded from the mission screen's External Map button on registered versions of the game. You can choose map size, background, terrain, scenery, buildings and opponents. It also lets you create mission "scenarios", which decide when and how players can win or lose a mission. 

Known bugs/issues: 
These known issues will be updated as bug reports come in and disappear as they are fixed: 
writing a previously read file may not work properly 
you cannot overwrite files (this is a safety feature for the beta period) 
misalignments in vertical layout in the properties bar 

Technical Details 

There are currently three ways to use this editor: 

1) Download the JAR file containing the Java and graphics files and run it as a Java application. This method requires that you install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) v1.1.4 or higher on your machine. Point to your local copy of the JAR file in your CLASSPATH, and run java cgedit.cgeditor. If you need to download the JRE for Win32 or Solaris, grab it from Sun's JRE page, or visit Sun's Java Homepage. Versions exist for other platforms, and Sun's page may lead you there, but make sure that whichever one you use supports the Java 1.1 language/API specification. As predicted (and at long last), Apple now has a version of their Java Virtual Machine supporting Java 1.1. Mac users (both the PowerPC and 68k varieties) will want to download Apple's MRJ Java Environment v2.0 to run the editor. If the single download is too big, try 
2) downloading it in multiple parts. 
Run the Appletviewer applet version of the editor using a the appletviewer tool from Sun's JDK or JRE (or from any other Java 1.1-compliant implementation for your platform). This should work, though you may have to play with the settings on your appletviewer to get it to let you read and write files on your local drive. 

3) Run the Netscape applet version of the editor using a recent version of Netscape. The applet version currently supports Netscape only if you support JDK 1.1.4. Getting the right version of Netscape is so absurdly complicated that we have dedicated and entire page to explaining it. Mac users should be able to run this applet version under Netscape if MRJ 2.0 is installed on your machine. 

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