As some may not be aware, let me bring those up to date on what I believe may be a fun project.
I and hopefully others have considered doing a client and server loosely based no the UO system. Given the limitations of my ability, knowledge, time, and other factors, the concept is to be a basic capability, that can be expanded. But the entire thread, from client, to data, to server would be avaiable code wise. No more "guessing".
I do recognize the magnitude of the work, so this is a long term project, where most likely the journey is far more enlighting then the destination will be. A team would be far more effeicient, but at the same, potentially detract from the journey. The concept is not to force anyone into any coding style, or enviornment. But hopefully, the base data and protcools can be shared, so others who decide to follow in the project, can interoperate with the software. Raged has expressed an interest in doing a development version in C#, while I will be primarly focusing on the Mac in Objective-C . As interest permits, I will be doing c++ for windows/etc.
So, given that, the other posts concerning client/server may now have a context. I am not attempting to build a UO client, capable of working on emus, etc. I am bulding a client, that is loosely based off the UO capabilitys, and modified data formats, that will work with a server built for it.
Ok, so the context is set. If others would like to work together (as closely as desired, be it at the data/protocool level, or actual code level if the enviroment is ones desire, it is always welcomed.
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