Cross Platform Client
I really like this idea, but has any work been done on porting this to linux to work under wine? I realize not many people use Linux or, let alone and play this game, but I'd be willing to head that up, as I wanted to do something along these lines anyway. Is there a good codebase I could look at to marry it into your system? --Dread
Re: Cross Platform Client
Hi Dread. Currently there hasn't been any work done on a multi-platform client. The current implementation has been done in C#/.NET, but has been written in such a way that to allow for most of the core functionality to compile under an alternative .NET implementation such as Mono, which is cross-platform. The problem with that, however, is that the client relies on unmanaged Win32 API calls to extract the coordinate information from the NexusTK client in-memory. These native calls are not supported by Mono. So, the real challenge would be to devise a way to extract the X,Y coordinate values from NexusTK running under Wine. Wine does have an API, but I am very skeptical. I would release the source under a GPL-friendly license, but we had to do some work on a secret key exchange between the client-server to prevent spoofing attacks, so for right now I'd rather keep it private. If you can find a way to extract the X,Y coordinates from NexusTK under Wine, let me know and I can give you access at that point. I'm not even sure NexusRadar is even working on the Windows client right not actually, as every update requires a recalculation of the memory address offsets to look at...
--Zaventh 12:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)