old relations?

**LethalEncounter** · #1 05-10-2007, 07:31 AM

Zordon was (is?) really the only dev left for Ethernalquest. We sometimes talked about implementation issues and about issues that affected both us and them, but we usually didnt have any communications.

Zordon was also the original creator of an EQ2 emulator which he stopped working on shortly after it came out. After he stopped working on it, I briefly stepped in to help work on his emulator but also gave up after a couple of months. A few months after that is when I created a new EQ2 emulator based very loosely on eqemu.

Zordon is a really smart guy, it is too bad that we had two eq emulator projects instead of one. We could have saved a lot of wasted effort.

gernblan · #2 05-13-2007, 11:16 AM

Yeah that's like what was happening when the Compiz team forked and started Beryl. Pointless duplication of effort. I hear they saw the light now and resolved their differences and are merging projects again soon, so this bodes well for the accelerated desktop Linux community.

In very rare cases, forking is good (for example, when nobody really DOES know the best way to do something and they explore different theories), but usually, it's just better to spend the resources on a goal with everyone on the same team, in my opinion.

(To keep this on topic of eqemu... this is why I do not respect S2K and what they did. They took the code, closed it up, started their own login server... and then give very little back (by my understanding) to the project that made them possible. Damn shame.

**GeorgeS** · #3 05-14-2007, 03:48 AM

Actually Scorpius2K still posts and contributes here and even made his emu version available to us. You must be thinking of the other group

GeorgeS

gernblan · #4 05-14-2007, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by GeorgeS

Actually Scorpius2K still posts and contributes here and even made his emu version available to us. You must be thinking of the other group

GeorgeS

You're right, I was thinking of Wintersroar. I am sorry for that mistake. S2K if you read this, my apologies.

devn00b · #5 05-14-2007, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by gernblan

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(To keep this on topic of eqemu... this is why I do not respect S2K and what they did. They took the code, closed it up, started their own login server... and then give very little back (by my understanding) to the project that made them possible. Damn shame.

I believe you are referring to Wintersroar or whatever incarnation it is now done by Wiz not s2k. He did give some code to the emu, LoS code i believe which was craptasticly buggy as i recall.

gernblan · #6 05-14-2007, 06:32 AM

IF I am wrong, I apologize. But I never did understand why they took the login server code (which leaked out as we all know) and ran.

#7 05-14-2007, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by gernblan

IF I am wrong, I apologize. But I never did understand why they took the login server code (which leaked out as we all know) and ran.

Nobody took the login server and ran....

Winters Roar and S2K just refused to update to the newer versions when they came out so Doodman agreed to keep the older login server up for them.

sfisque · #8 05-14-2007, 11:57 AM

JEEBUS.

ask an innocent question and open up all sorts of cans of worms. my apologies if this got anyone hot under the collar. i was merely asking the original question for historical sake. i'm kind of new here and before i had discovered eqemulator.net, i had poked around (several years ago) on the hackersquest.com site but that was a dead end as far as i could tell.

== sfisque