Please Review This Game

Question

Could anyone please check out this game I developed for a Software Design assignment. We have to make an evaluation so if I could get some feedback, good/bad/constructive... it would be helpful.
The setup package is about 6.5Mb.
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard2/neozenith/CypherSetup.exe
The game is supposed to recreate Master Mind. The game itself has some graphics problem because the GIF's are too large to render and I am using a Timer to update them. The HTML renderer for the Help Screen is also rather sluggish. Any help or recommended improvements can be directed to
[email protected]
Please Note that the Java runtime environment 1.4.2_04 is required to run. I haven't tried bacwards compatibility testing. I know this post is long but thanks for bearing with me.
Cheers.

Answer 1

There may be a better way to do this now, but here's something I whipped up way back when to
circumvent a bug in the old 1.1.5 JVM included with Netscape. 4x.
It does in fact get an image form a jar.
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.InputStream;
public class ImageFromJar
public ImageFromJar()
               // returns an Image retrieved from a jar file
public Image getImageFromJar(String fileName)
   if( fileName == null )
       return null;
   Image image = null;
   byte[] tn = null;
   Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
   InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName);
   try
      int length = in.available();
      tn = new byte[length];
      in.read(tn);
      image = toolkit.createImage(tn);
   catch(Exception exc)
      System.out.println( exc +" getting resource " +fileName );
      return null;
   return image;
} Have fun ;)
(T)