you still haven't aswered my question. your tic-tac-toe and nervous
text applets won't view on a windows 2000 box with IE6, and you are
missing the source code, which is the whole point of my question.
I need to know how to get the graphics working and compilable on this
newer java platform so that someone without the newest java platform can
view it. I have such a view-machine and it's running windows 2000+IE6.

However, I did find some awt graphics code from a 3d-tic-tac-toe game
that I thought might work on javaboutique from 1999, but alas, when I
compile it on JDK 6.0,
C:\www\jimm\code\applets\ttt>javac ttt.java
Note: ttt.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.

I get the same thing when using older java books with applets in them.
and the 6.0 stuff says to use this API I think, but it doesn't work on
anything but the latest 6.0 JRE, which has to be installed for it to
work, and a lot of people aren't smart enough to do that. Sun has
really done themselves in this time.