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Originally Posted by a_gnoll_pup
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bump for classicness.
just gauging interest to see how many people would be willing to contribute.
I've recently began work on merging the capability for having both EQ Titanium and EQMac's windows client (The one that Secrets/Rogean made) working together in unison.
So far I have converted the EQStreamInterface interface to support both EQStream and EQOldStream, a new class I made to support packet handlers with the old client. It will make a new stream depending on what kind of client is connecting, the first packet identifies the stream type, the first opcode identifies the 'patch' (ie; Mac, Trilogy, etc) just like EQEmulator does to support multiple clients at the moment.
The EQOldStream class is based heavily off of EQClassic's work of a packet parser implementation from their public release, but made into an interface that can plug in to EQEmulator and thus use their patch system.
There's a crash issue with it so if anyone is good at debugging multithreaded networking applications I would appreciate the help. The mac client is identified in the stream now, but nothing past that. I used Visual Leak Detector to make sure that the new class does not leak memory, so far that's turning up just fine, so it's something else.
If anyone is interested (and is a programmer) in contributing to this project that Project 1999 could potentially use someday to support both the Titanium and classic-era clients at the same time, I'll put it on Github as a fork of EQEmu. I'm not going to want to do this alone, but I will if I have to. This project will be entirely open source and potentially be merged into EQEmulator's main branch for all servers to use when it's all said and done.
Yes, this means this functionality will work on EQClassic's client if it ends up getting finished after the Mac client is completely done and working, for those who are wondering. It also will support all of EQEmulator's functions (Perl/Lua parsers) up to the era for the client you plug into it.
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Somebody help this guy out! I am not a programmer so I can't help you at all but I think it would be great if EQMac's client could be used here, then you could choose between classic (for those that want complete nostalgia), or velious/pop. Appreciate the work you are doing to get this working!