Old Source/Binaries

[Tabidzukare]

Hi Everyone,

I've gotten a classic server going now for study and work!! It's fantastic to see the Emulator in it's infancy and now having all the older sources I can follow the work from the ground up. I am however looking for some of the older databases that work in tandem with these older binaries, namely the Drawde's databases starting from the old worlddata05.zip and up if possible. If anyone has a repository for these let me know, Drawde's work from what I can gather greatly improved the flexibility and functionality of the emulator so having these will also be helpful to learn from.

It's not a big deal not having them, as I can easily just add data in myself to the stock databases to test out features or see what their status is, but having a larger pool of data already ready to source in and interact with will just save time and make things easier to see. I've tried all of the sources in the archives including links submitted by other peoples sequencing of theirs and drawde's work. Everything from that era DB wise seems to be dead. I browsed through everything in you guys posts for DB related materials but couldn't find anything.

Any more help would be great, but at this point isn't completely necessary for understanding the core functionality of the EQEmu.

Kindest Regards~~

[trevius]

I had assumed that you were wanting the old source so you could have a version to match an old database that you already had and wanted to use. Any particular reason why not to just use the current stuff? You will find that the newer versions are light years beyond that old stuff.

[Tabidzukare]

Hi Trevius,

Strangely enough my very length reply to your post was not posted.. so I'll be brief this time around:

I had actually started out with old clients and was trying to attain older EQEmu source so I could study the Emulator in it's infancy. Which is exactly what I intend to do.

With all the old source I can now compare for example 4.4 to 4.3 code and see things like:

• • Problem solving methods used by the EQEmu team
  • Solution to problems after I study the problems
  • See how the Emulator developed
  • Understand the work involved in contributing to the Emulator
  • Understand the direction of the project
  • Understand more what is provided to me for free !

I've been a part of this community for years and years now, but I finally decided it's time to 'know where it all comes from' so that's what I've set out to do. I hope that by understanding where this project has been from the back-end up to now I can one day actually contribute to it or help those in need of knowledge.

I'm still working on quests/database things for the PEQ release, and I still maintain for study and development my own MiniLogin server that's 'modern'. Call me crazy... it is after all true..

Kindest Regards~~

[Secrets]

Originally Posted by Tabidzukare

Hi Everyone,

I've gotten a classic server going now for study and work!! It's fantastic to see the Emulator in it's infancy and now having all the older sources I can follow the work from the ground up. I am however looking for some of the older databases that work in tandem with these older binaries, namely the Drawde's databases starting from the old worlddata05.zip and up if possible. If anyone has a repository for these let me know, Drawde's work from what I can gather greatly improved the flexibility and functionality of the emulator so having these will also be helpful to learn from.

It's not a big deal not having them, as I can easily just add data in myself to the stock databases to test out features or see what their status is, but having a larger pool of data already ready to source in and interact with will just save time and make things easier to see. I've tried all of the sources in the archives including links submitted by other peoples sequencing of theirs and drawde's work. Everything from that era DB wise seems to be dead. I browsed through everything in you guys posts for DB related materials but couldn't find anything.

Any more help would be great, but at this point isn't completely necessary for understanding the core functionality of the EQEmu.

Kindest Regards~~

I would suggest looking at the PEQ Kunark release. This is the closest you'll find to the old DB schema, and what I was using for quite some time before I basically did a clean slate for EQClassic. You will have to remove a few database fields, but for the most part, it is largely the same. Also, you have to do some tricksy work in Excel to get the grids from the 2grid system to the old old OLD grid system.

Best of luck.