neothereal
Member
We all love u man, you must know this, embrace this, and be at peace with this!
Mad props for amadeus.
Mad props for amadeus.
Amadeus
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Multicharacter
Senior Member
Weren't they forced to play WoW? Not EQ2.
I worked about 11 hours on this yesterday, and then about 4 hours tonight. (And, keep in mind this isn't the kind of work you can do with tv/movie/music in the background.)
I expect to have a TEST version ready Thursday night late (Pacific Time.) It will be announced in IRC, that is where you should be if you're interested.
I expect to have a TEST version ready Thursday night late (Pacific Time.) It will be announced in IRC, that is where you should be if you're interested.
Multicharacter
Senior Member
Thank you Amadeus, both for the work and for the update on the progress made so far.
Edit: BTW, looks like another forced patch 6/2. Hopefully it's just minor changes and won't be a big set back.
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Traxhax
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He does. I believe i donated $20 myself. People should feel the need to do the same. Guy works hard.
speedycerv
Active Member
rock me Amadeus!
Obviously, I do appreciate the donations and it does make it a bit more bearable. My paypal email address is amadeusmq@yahoo.com. However, I don't want to mislead anyone into thinking that anything can make it happen faster. In two weeks I'm on vacation for about 3 months, but right now my schedule is just full all day and I don't have time to work on it until late in the evening.
Updating ISXEQ2 is always very methodical work. Imagine a massive jigsaw puzzle where you have a lot of pieces, but instead of each piece having exactly one location it goes, it can go in a multitude of locations (but, only one place is where it NEEDS to go.) Some of the more advanced features of ISXEQ2 requires reversing a significant portion of the client. So, whey they make a fundamental change (which is what happened this time), it requires going through every inch of it to make sure it all "fits together" in the right way. There are some things that were updated this patch that hadn't been updated since 2006.
The good news is that, as far as I can see, nothing is "broken" and ISXEQ2 will be working as it did before as soon as I finish the update. I actually finished the preliminary portion of this last night, and logged in. I was working through some crash bugs when I ran out of time. But, I imagine with another hour or two I should have a test version ready. (Of course, I first have to update for the patch today ..which usually takes about 30 minutes.)
Updating ISXEQ2 is always very methodical work. Imagine a massive jigsaw puzzle where you have a lot of pieces, but instead of each piece having exactly one location it goes, it can go in a multitude of locations (but, only one place is where it NEEDS to go.) Some of the more advanced features of ISXEQ2 requires reversing a significant portion of the client. So, whey they make a fundamental change (which is what happened this time), it requires going through every inch of it to make sure it all "fits together" in the right way. There are some things that were updated this patch that hadn't been updated since 2006.
The good news is that, as far as I can see, nothing is "broken" and ISXEQ2 will be working as it did before as soon as I finish the update. I actually finished the preliminary portion of this last night, and logged in. I was working through some crash bugs when I ran out of time. But, I imagine with another hour or two I should have a test version ready. (Of course, I first have to update for the patch today ..which usually takes about 30 minutes.)
My apologies if my asking about donations lead you to believe it was intended to get the updates faster. Offering a donation is something thats been on my mind since the day I relaized how much work and coding you have to do in order to make this happen for us. Its more of a thank you. I just chose this thread to ask about it.
UH OH!!! Will we be without ISXEQ2 for 3 months (after the first patch)??? Please say NO!
Can't claim to know the internal workings of the dll and patcher.
All I know is, trying to run it at 8am UK time it wasn't working. Running it at 11am it WAS working. That's some ungodly hour in the US for someone to be up and working on this.
Above and beyond the call of duty imo.
All I know is, trying to run it at 8am UK time it wasn't working. Running it at 11am it WAS working. That's some ungodly hour in the US for someone to be up and working on this.
Above and beyond the call of duty imo.
Multicharacter
Senior Member
Thank you Amadeus.
Now let's hope they don't do another forced patch. They're supposed to be reverting the way spell casting formulas work to pre GU60 today, and I'm not sure if that is something that would absolutely require a client update or not.
Now let's hope they don't do another forced patch. They're supposed to be reverting the way spell casting formulas work to pre GU60 today, and I'm not sure if that is something that would absolutely require a client update or not.
viniculum8
Active Member
He means he'll have ample time for 3 months, Blackee.