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Hello all yes saidly I am back. Well anyways here is what I was wanting to ask you guys. I was thinking about decompileing my eq client and attempting to get source. I was woundering if anyone would be intrested in helping with this. I think that if I had source code I could possabuly write my owne eq client. Another thing I wanted to ask is if anyone has tryed this before ? please excuse the spelling I have been up all night.

many people have tried, and theres really not a chance in hell of getting a decompiler advanced enough to be useful. It is complicated C++, and nothing can really do a good job.

Writting a client is a monumental task, and decompiling sony's crap prolly isnt gunna help much... it will prolly be needed at time on certain pieces, but is not a way to get a head start.

You'd be much better off porting parts of the OpenZone source. It can already write client data files (and it technically has the code to read them, though that code isn't called). I would recommend porting S3D.pas and EQWldData.pas, which would get you a good start (and Ethernet.pas, which S3D.pas requires, but that's trivial). Then bolt it to any good 3D engine (e.g. OGRE), and write a little bit of netcode (you could borrow heavily from the EQEmu source for this). FNW is right in that writing a client is a monumental task for one person, but one thing you can do is design and submit some code that would at least lower the bar towards that.