I somehow missed the fact that this has been finally put to rest. I knew Google won the first round, then Oracle managed to get that overturned, and only in March of this year did the Supreme Court resolve this in Google's (and the rest of the software industry's) favor.

Talk about astronomical hardware requirements. ;)

The download page says it requires Java 8. The latest version of Java is 16. Is this wrong?

Most likely it was developed using 8, but should work just fine on anything above that.

I never wanted Java on my PC prior to playing Lionheart, so I downloaded the latest version... It works fine :)

Unless I'm mistaken, the project was started more than 15 years ago, so...

Anyway here's the developer's site.

eheh it makes sense.
Btw, as I mentioned FLapp, if anyone enjoys gamebooks and has Java installed, it's a great title! It's the adaptation of the first 6 Fabled Lands books, fully automatized. No more need for pencil and eraser!
http://flapp.sourceforge.net/

Nice, can never have enough CYOA gamebooks.