[DGD] DGD

[Raymond Jennings]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Felix A. Croes <felix at dworkin.nl> wrote:
> Blain <blain20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So how are things in DGD land?
>
> In my spare time, of which I have little, I am building a DGD-based
> server for Asheron's Call.
>
> Asheron's Call is an early MMO which closed down at the beginning of
> this year.  I played it for a while in 1999-2000, and always thought it
> was a pity that I could not change and improve this game.
>
> Asheron's Call was supposed to be making game servers freely available
> at one point (as in, game servers that you can run yourself), but that
> never happened.  Crucially, the intellectual property is owned by
> Warner Brothers, so it will never be legal to host your own game
> on the internet.
>
> I am doing this as a for-fun project, and also as a workout for Hydra,
> which improved significantly because of it.  All the code is written
> to take advantage of Hydra's multi-processor acceleration, but it will
> also work on DGD.  I have set myself the additional goal of also adding
> a telnet interface, allowing graphical and text-based clients connected
> to the same server.
>
> The project is advancing at a glacial pace, and I will release a first
> version sometime soonish.  The license is GPL.
>
> Regards,
> Felix Croes
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This has definitely got my interest.  Like blain said, good luck.

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.