Random thoughts....

[Jerrysn]

1st random thought:

Holy crap have PCs come a long way that past couple of years!

OK so I've spent the last couple of weeks upgrading and reloading my PC, in part because I want to run EQEmu. hehe hard to find spare time with a 4 month old. Cost me about $200 to do this (had Win XP laying around).

Went from:
Pentium 2 @ 450 MHZ (overclocked), 384 MRAM, 10Gig ATA66 running Win98(SE)

To:
Pentium 4 @ 1.5 GHz, 576 MRAM, 60Gig ATA100 running WinXP.

Most noticable results:

1) Boots up under 30 seconds.

2) It used to take about 7 minutes to copy my EQLive directory - now it takes 55 seconds!

3) Same dial-modem used to average 4.7KBPS - New average is 5.5KBPS - again - no hardware change.

Going to try EQEmu again this evening - wish me luck!


2nd Random thought:

If my thinking is correct , the only major thing EQEmu is 'borrowing' is the 3d rendering engine.

So would it be all that tough for a bunch of geeks to get together to write an engine and make the content?

-Jerry