World of Tomorrwow

Many emulators went around and left. Let me name some… Thanatos (Stormcraft continued, well known hoax), eWOW updated (ewow with support of 1.8.0), Simpleserv (Czech guy who made a bet for 2000€ that he can complete Java-based emulator until 1.1.2006), DelphiEmu which come out of nowhere with basic functionality (done by user456) and lots of forgotten ones. Three main emus left: MaNGOS (not really WOW server, but multi server which supports WOW, steady progress in here, open source, anyone can join and help, looks organised, has the best presentation), WowwoW (ideal small-business server with really scriptable everything outside the core, state unknown as Dr.Nexus is working in the privacy). Let’s hope players (me) will get a really good emu soon and wish devs enough of patience with coding, flaming and complaining and WOW itself.

World of Miracles

Something happened once more again. New year 2006 passed on and people was still hoping for a miracle… such a miracle shown up once nice day on Blizzhackers stating the Expansion was leaked and will be released sometimes on IRC… I personally joined that session with lot of hopes, the biggest star in channel was original WOW’s leaker ‘Skull (unluckily, that ‘ was thing that cleared it up all later. Everybody was talking about that and that and that, old friends met, old legends shown up again and everybody enjoyed the day. But the main thing why everybody came remained unseen. ‘Skull (mostly |afk) held trivia for so-called private FTP and wonderful thing was told. It’ll be provided with sandbox to explore new continents. Wonderful you might say, but next day arrived, evening and release time came and unlucky no leak happened. Blizzard released Alpha and Beta later this year (09/06) with his own downloader therefore supplied whole Emulation scene with new material to build on…

And it all ended up like this…

Jimbo: We have been working hard to bring you this…
Jimbo: ROFL NOOBS THIS IS A SCAM DIE!!!
snowflake: HAHAHAAH
snowflake: PWNED
snowflake: ROFL
Jimbo: LOL
Jimbo: nice one