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Originally Posted by Mblake81
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What were the names of these programs?
Where they ever on websites for others to download. Was this EQ secret shared?
Were these self written and used only for personal use, if so and this was known in era, was it ever addressed by the original devs?
This is what I am curious about.
Fair enough, we are talking about GINA though.
Which programs were used beforehand, any links to those?
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Yeah, the stuff I coded was way too janky to share and/or sell, even if I ever wanted to. I think the text strings it looked for were
mostly hardcoded; I don't know that I even had an understanding of regex then.
The thing is, there is really nothing hard about programming a log reader. Displaying data may be a bit harder, but even in 1999 you could have done it all - soup to nuts - in something as simple as microsoft excel or access. Saying that I was some kind of prodigy because - out of the million or so EQ players - I was the only one with the insight or talent to do this is flattering but very likely inaccurate.