UO Second Age

Panthor the Hated wrote:Did the mail bag ever work? I just used to drop it on everyone. It was funny.

Didn't you have the option of turning it off and not recieving any messages? I think when someone dragged it to you, you would just get a message about an invitation to chat and it wasn't actually that annoying unless you had multiple people doing it.

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I remember the gimp masks but not the mailbag? I have my original *pre-ordered* second age CD in my drive right now and I tried connecting a couple times with connect UO patching encryption then tried Captain's patched client and neither works. If we want to be era accurate we absolutely must support this client version, although I do remember that OSI had some issues with the distribution which probably led to later versions and GADZILLION DAMN PATCHES. This is the CD that caused society to assign me a psychiatrist for "being addicted to it" because of the D&D fears that I'd go out and kill people (maybe for what *they* did...), and I simply cannot live without it. Coffee & Dr. Pepper + cigarettes + UO 1.25.35 = heaven. I do remember OSI deliberating over the whole child thing...I could swear I saw a few in game back then but maybe my memory is flawed? Someone message me as SOON as support is enabled!!!

Klavis Verge wrote:If we want to be era accurate we absolutely must support this client version, although I do remember that OSI had some issues with the distribution which probably led to later versions and GADZILLION DAMN PATCHES.

I'm actually working on it, this is the 1.26i (UO:R) client on test center tonight. It will be some amount of work to make this fully functional, and it's still glitchy, but test center does support this client as of tonight. Not razor though. You will have to install from the UO:R or UOTD CD, then UORICE the client, and edit your login.cfg to connect.

login.cfg

You'd think a wizard could just recall

It's important to mention that the original T2A CD didn't even have the mediation skill. We would like to support the client, but in the end it won't be fully in line with our timeframe on Second Age.

Derrick do you have a dedicated group of beta testers or is it like a packet scoop on the testbed with whoever happens to connect? I'd grab the .26i version and help if it would speed things up. I'm a Microcrap systems engineer but not a game developer. I understand code but assembly is beyond me right now. I could care less about razor (would make the clients more "invested" in my opinion), and I hate Meditation (an extra open skill slot would be important in my gameplay strategy) but that's surely debatable as I do believe in democracy and would probably be out-voted in support of it, if not for the very fact that we're all "dedicated" to a client that *happens* to feature it. I really appreciate all the hard work you do and I know how hard it is. Let me know what I can do.

This is probably outside the scope of the Second Age Discussion forum; hit up the forums over at JoinUO, it all all very ad-hoc; anyone able to contribute in any respect is very welcome.

Derrick wrote:It's important to mention that the original T2A CD didn't even have the mediation skill. We would like to support the client, but in the end it won't be fully in line with our timeframe on Second Age.

I guess updating these old clients has been discontinued by OSI? I recall back in '00, if I wanted to update my non-T2A client I would need to alter one of the cfg files to the new server address, then it would update as per normal. There was a guide for it on the site back then.

nightshark wrote:I guess updating these old clients has been discontinued by OSI?

You can still patch all the way from the T2A CD to the latest client as far as I'm aware. I accidenly patched my UO:R client yesterday a little bit.

Derrick wrote:

nightshark wrote:I guess updating these old clients has been discontinued by OSI?

You can still patch all the way from the T2A CD to the latest client as far as I'm aware. I accidenly patched my UO:R client yesterday a little bit.

Burned!

Ya I patched my UO:R install when I started here to one of the 5.x clients. They seem to still patch all the way tot he beginning

Nice find.

Anybody knows which emulator would run this client? Seriously...looks like a nice project!

Will be this client version implemented on the server in future ?

It would be missing the T2A resources, such as Ostard graphics; outlook negative

Bicchus Dicchus, looking forward to dinner

Ok - "Will be era accarute client version implemented on the server in future ?"

It stands to reason that a customized client could be put together using what we have learned from the old clients, god client, etc, as well as the stripping down of modern client resources (such as, for example, Champion monster animations) in order to produce a compact client containing only the resources used up to Dec31/99

Remember the chest opening animation?

Bicchus Dicchus