What is Wowser?

Wowser is a small and fast Java applet which provides the experience of navigating a web site as if you were walking through a three dimensional space. Wowser reads a file with a very simple format describing the world you see. You can build a world containing your own images, messages, and links to other Wowser worlds. You can also have links to the normal old style flat HTML pages which can be brought up in the same or other browser windows if desired.

All that is required to view and navigate through an existing Wowser world is a Java 1.1 enabled browser, such as IE4 or Netscape 4.0.8.

It is easy to build your own Wowser worlds on your computer or web site. All you need is an HTML page to invoke the Wowser applet, and a file describing the Wowser world which can be part of the Wowser HTML file. These two or three files are all that is necessary to build the simplest Wowser worlds.

The Wowser applet is in the file WOWSER.JAR which you may copy from the directory where you found this file. You may copy the other HTML pages in this directory to your computer for a short time for the sole purpose of using them as examples to help you learn how to use Wowser, and as starting points for constructing your own Wowser worlds.

You may copy the wowser Java applet (WOWSER.JAR) to your computer and web page for personal and non-profit use, provided that it is legal, ethical, moral, and socially acceptable.

Boring Lawyer Stuff

Wowser is free and provided as is. No warranties are expressed, implied or contemplated in the future. All applicable disclaimers are claimed. All other disclaimers which may under any circumstances further reduce liability are claimed even though they may or may not be applicable. Under certain circumstances, of which there are none we can think of, the user's sole recourse in the event of a dispute will be the lesser of double money back, or no compensation of any kind whatsoever. If Wowser is found to be unsatisfactory for any purpose, or to violate any law, the user must delete all of his or her copies, and pretend to forget that he or she has ever heard of it or seen it. In such a case we would appreciate having all the bytes with hex value 0x2A returned, as we are running low, but this is not a requirement. That is before pretending to forget.

We have found a way to create new 0x2A's using cut and paste in notepad but this is a slow process. Sometimes those smelly green things really get in there and what do you know but it wasn't really there in the first place. Letters of plausible forkings belittle the useful bits that have not seen any more of them in any case. And if you really read this far, you deserve what you get. Plork morking snork bitteled slerf gork moidlian ploids. Blork.

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