Can anyone get this Java applet to run?

[Nermal]

A friend sent me a link to this, but I get a blank area with a little red X when I try to view it in Safari. if I download the jar and launch it, I get a rather generic "failed to launch" error. The console contains the message "java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file".

It works for him, so can someone here please try it and see what happens? I have Leopard with all the latest updates.

Thanks

 

[ledd]

This may be a Java 1.6 issue or whatever. I had problems similar to this before. And it did not run for me.

 

[Mydel]

Doesn't work for me as well.I'm on MBP 10.5.1

 

[Mernak]

Java Console says

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass2(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:719)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:160)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:254)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(AppletClassLoader.java:147)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(AppletClassLoader.java:119)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(AppletClassLoader.java:591)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(AppletPanel.java:723)
	at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(AppletViewer.java:1863)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(AppletPanel.java:652)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:326)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

which happens when a computer has the wrong version of java, so it does seem to be a 1.6 error (which apple needs to release soon for stuff like this)

 

[HLdan]

Yep, even tried it in XP and no go. It's the website, it's not your Mac.

 

[Nermal]

So it looks like it's written in the new version of Java then. That was my initial suspicion, although it boggles the mind as to why somebody would make a site targetting a developer preview of the runtime. Does anybody know whether it's "safe" to install the DP without breaking anything important?