MaNGOS history

[Toinan67]

Hi,

I'd like to know a bit more about it.

• * Is MaNGOS the first wow server ever?
  * Who created the first MaNGOS file? And when?
  * What are the major steps of your history?
  * Which devs are here since the beginning?
  * Is MaNGOS your biggest project?
  * Is there any "spiritual guide" in the team? (a leader? )
  

I hope I'll have some devs answers!

Perhaps we could create a wiki page with these infos...

Thanks

[TheLuda]

The GotWoW history on http://gotwow.ic.cz/ used to have a pretty good summary of emulator history, and showed which emulators had been built on others. They also had a gallery with pictures and logos of old stuff up and running.

If the site happens to be down - it is from time to time - the google cache has a copy usually. "gotwow mangos" as search term should lead to it.

Short version: we're not the first, most of us are here since 2005, and we're probably the longest living project in this category. Drama-free, relaxed folks

[Curious]

I first played on WoWemu, and THAT brings me nostalgia : no water breathing, can cast behind your back, mobs never moving except for agro, spells who never did what the toolbox said.... so much fun

[Toinan67]

Thanks for the link TheLuda, that's what I was searching. I've got pages to read

[TheLuda]

The site is pretty much complete, and IMHO the style of the texts is entertaining. The only thing to add... god, this is more than five years ago. *gosh*

[Toinan67]

Yes it's quite entertaining

And yea, times goes very fast. 2010, wtf? For me, 1990 is still 10 years ago.

[DaemonCantor]

Yes time does fly and I can remember way back when Dinasors walked the land and the Commodore 64 had just came out! what a dream to have moving pictures with sound that you could interact with and learn how to make them too!...then the world went dark and the Amiga appered!...that was a cold day!

[Unkle Nuke]

Now I do feel old(ish). Seems like just a few years ago the C-64 was king of home computers. It's hard to believe that the original Star Wars is now as old as those black & white classics were when I was a kid watching them on Saturday afternoons.

I wonder what WoW would have been like on the C-64? lol

[faramir118]

I wonder what WoW would have been like on the C-64? lol

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/

[DaViper]

Where do you find this awsome stuff!...It brings back memories!(nightmares more like it)....Ahh! I miss my old Pong game now!

[Toinan67]

I wonder what WoW would have been like on the C-64? lol

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/

This is epic x)

I didn't know it!

Blizzard should do it, I'm sure they would make it a great game.

[caeruleaus]

haha that was an april's fools joke they did a while ago

[awkwarddev]

Gotwow have awesome historical potentual actually. I've learned for the past in which I wasn't here, so now my path in the emulation has stronger roots, based on the true histories that happened before my coming to here.