Greetings! I'm Bernie

[Berniemack]

Hey everyone! My name is Bernie, going to just copy my intro from another post I made here earlier:

I've recently gone down a rabbit hole over this old game I used to play back in my youth and have become fascinated not only with the community around this game and server emulation for it, but its history and everything, its been very cool reading all the forum posts and conversations, It's sucked up many of my nights these last couple of months haha. That said before this little adventure I've never done multiplayer game programming (did a few little mobile games back in college but that's it) mostly because I suck at art/modeling etc. Recently I've been working on revamping a 5518 client/server to be a game that can actually be enjoyed by a small handful of people (mainly intended to by played by just me and my wife).

Any way its really cool to see so many familiar names here and on other forums still posting and talking about this topic. I also wonder what else you guys may have gotten into over the years outside of conquer. After I feel I've learned what I can from messing around with conquer I was thinking of messing around with some runescape server emulation as well. Also really Interested in sharpening my skills with reverse engineering and making my own tools for that. 

[Spirited]

Welcome to our little community! I know a few people have dabbled in other game emulations / mods, but Conquer was my sandbox for like a decade and a half. Still is, but my work and house keep me away from hobby projects. I guess my house is my new hobby project. Lol

Anyways, hope you have a fun here! I was a C# engineer in finance / business solutions as well. Haha

 

[Berniemack]

Totally get that! I have a 9 month old and up until recently I thought I would never have time for another hobby project again haha. It comes and goes for me. I think prior to this I havent dusted off VS on my personal computer in almost a year. Between work, and life I just couldnt find the motivation or I should say anything that interested me enough to take on.

I certainly partially envy that I didnt get into this back in the day when the community around conquer as a whole was more alive, that must have been an experience seeing and being a part of all the developments and discoveries as they happen. Speaking of I want to give a huge thank you to not only yourself but also all the other amazingly talented individuals that I have seen and learned from. Despite being pretty new here (and seemingly late to the party lol), I feel like I almost got to see a piece of all from an observers lens, through reading posts on epvp. 

Thanks for the welcome! 

Edited July 25 by Berniemack

[lawless]

06-2010 was a great time in the co scene. so many folks at the time and though at the start, 95% of servers were built off of LOTF, it was fun and really started my interest in code. FF 15-20 years later, it's a much smaller & less coordinated community than it was. but hey, some folks are still around!

got to give props to Fang, though. he has helped document and preserve lots of progress that has been made in the co emulation scene.

 

(oh, and welcome)

Edited July 31 by lawless