Oh wow. Looks like there hasn't been any progress on this since when I looked at this a long time ago. I deleted my copy of snake and I made a reminder to revisit this topic if I could. Seems like nothing has changed. I quite liked the game, despite being basic to play.
Also there was something wrong with my computer/java installation. I had reinstalled Windows and it worked perfectly fine by double-clicking it. And no cmd window!
EDIT: Oh the file is no longer on mediafire. I'll have to restore it from an old backup
