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by naggie 722 days ago
Is there a maintained open source server counterpart?

It’s really great to see games that would otherwise die live on through a community. Ultima online is a great example with the likes of ClassicUO (amazing client) and ModernUO (an active attempt at a modernised server)
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arianvanp 722 days ago
Yes there were many. This is how I got into programming in 2006. The fact that OSRS even happened is because Jagex was losing a lot of people to private servers.

I've been out of the community for 1.5 decades now but there (used to) be a thriving private server community at https://rune-server.org/index.php which shaped my entire programming career

Whether there are still actively maintained ones I'm not sure though.

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pasmat 722 days ago
This is for 2004 version of the game, but probably the most active open source project

https://github.com/2004scape

Also Runelite isn’t open source client per se, its just open source client wrapper that makes many functions available through stable API and adds plugins.

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