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  1. Norman Lancaster

    Does Anyone Know If The Reflection Folder Has Value?

    No clue. Remove it and run the server, see what happens :)
  2. Norman Lancaster

    Still having trouble with Ultima Live.

    I'm sorry I can't help. I don't know anything about these modern clients. And I was out of the scene for the whole Ultima Live deal.
  3. Norman Lancaster

    Lord British Model

    *sigh* I freaking hate what they did with the storyline after LB left. The person, not the character. It's like as soon as he was out of Origin they had to remove him from the game. And you know what? They did :) From July 15 of 1986 until April 21 of 2007, Richard Garriott held a trademark on...
  4. Norman Lancaster

    Spawning World In Windows 7

    Are you sure it is killing the server process and not the client? The client will sometimes nope-the-f-out due to getting too much data at once from the spawner messages. If it is the server process, then I'm afraid we've got issues. The only part of the create world process that should lock up...
  5. Norman Lancaster

    Hello all

    Milva and I may be a bit biased towards the official ServUO server :) We both staff there and player involvement on the server helps us improve the base emulator for all of the other shard owners. If you are interested the site address is www.servuo.net . If you are looking for a more old-school...
  6. Norman Lancaster

    Client 1.25.35b (T2A Retail Release) Detailed Information

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaand... encryption is broken :) At least the login encryption. I am feeling much more confident now. I am going to continue working with this to see if there is a separate encryption method for the game server. There is one report on the Second Age forums that the 1.25 series clients...
  7. Norman Lancaster

    Need Guidance for Git Clients

    I have been working on a new tutorial to teach people how to use Git to manage their shard's code with a graphical interface. I think a lot of our users are put off by the command line interface of Git based on some conversations we have had on this forum. My problem is I am a command line...
  8. Norman Lancaster

    Compiling and running the client on Widows xp

    As long as it's not connected to the internet in any way, have at it. Just keep in mind that Windows XP is way out of support and super-the-hacked now. Also, let us know if you need any help :)
  9. Norman Lancaster

    Client 1.25.35b (T2A Retail Release) Detailed Information

    The folks over at Second Age are great, but I'm not really interested in being 100% accurate. Rather I am interested in taking what I think were the motivations and goals of the design team and re-implementing them through a more modern game design lens. I think UO had a great thing going in...
  10. Norman Lancaster

    Client 1.25.35b (T2A Retail Release) Detailed Information

    I am working on an experimental UO server emulator written in NodeJS. I have the architecture complete and am starting to implement. So now I'm working towards my personal pet project, which is to build as old-school of a shard as I possibly can without game breaking client bugs. I'd like to...
  11. Norman Lancaster

    Running Really Old Clients

    The multi-client patch went swimmingly. I've posted all the details I have for this client over on this thread: https://www.servuo.com/threads/client-1-25-35b-t2a-retail-release-detailed-information.4544/ . Maybe if I were better at R/E I could do an encryption patch :)
  12. Norman Lancaster

    Client 1.25.35b (T2A Retail Release) Detailed Information

    Further information regarding this client will be published to my research site: https://sites.google.com/site/ultimaonlineoldpackets/ I've been working with the T2A client from the initial retail release. This CD can be found here: http://mirror.ashkantra.de/joinuo/Clients/1.25.35 (T2A)/ . The...
  13. Norman Lancaster

    ImmortalUO

    Great to see new shards opening! Just a few pointers from a player's perspective (I don't really have much experience as a GM yet :) ): Players that join a Felucca-only shard typically want it to stay that way. Introducing a consensual PvP ruleset may upset your established player base more...
  14. Norman Lancaster

    Broadsword/OSI population

    EA has a history of strangling the life out of MMO's. When micro-transactions started to be a thing, EA added micro-transactions as a monitization model but did not understand (or maybe didn't care) that to make that worth while you have to build a much larger player base by eliminating...
  15. Norman Lancaster

    Void Creature System

    Milva is referring to the progressive spawn we have in place at the moment. If functions sort of like a mini-champ. If you weren't familiar with how these things are supposed to work on OSI you probably wouldn't understand the difference :) Thank you so much for your contribution! I have linked...
  16. Norman Lancaster

    Running Really Old Clients

    It's all good. I stumbled through the disassembly enough to find where I need to patch for multi-client (there's actually two checks in those older clients). I've tested each patch individually but ran out of time before I had to go to work this morning to put them together. I think I'm almost...
  17. Norman Lancaster

    Running Really Old Clients

    Thanks Demented, I really appreciate the help. UO Rice only supports clients back to 1.26.3, which is into the UO:R era. I have a 1.26.4i installation disk image and it's not what I'm after. Unfortunately it looks like I'll have to do this the hard way :) Oh well, the encryption has been broken...
  18. Norman Lancaster

    Running Really Old Clients

    I figured out my issue. I thought I had replied but I guess not :) I forgot that UO finds its data directory based on the registry entry regardless of where the exe is, so it was never pulling the altered login.cfg file. I re-ran the network monitoring to double-check myself and sure enough...
  19. Norman Lancaster

    What is your ideal shard?

    Boldunum, as you may have guessed from the post you responded to earlier, I want to try to create a shard very similar to the experience right at launch but with the bugs fixed. Well, not the entertaining bugs :) The specific feature set I'd like: Classic MIDI music Chest login screen Bounty...
  20. Norman Lancaster

    Old Client Patch Archive?

    Thank you Boldunum, that is a great resource. This isn't quite the client I am looking for, but it does help quite a bit. I did finally get this working. This is well known information, but I wasn't thinking about it enough. The client was picking up the login.cfg from another UO installation...

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