jan 5, 1997 - FUSE Emulator

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Fallo creates FUSE, a server expandable by user-made DLL-addons, such as CFuse, Thayland's DLL, and FuseX (by Craz).


Eagle writes the following about FUSE:
"fuse started way way back, in the days of uox1 written by fallo. fallo in the begning was a part of the orig uox dev team, becouse of diffrences between fallo and the dev team ( not sure if it was personal or coding standarts ) Fallo started FUSE ( Fallo's Ultima Server Engine ) fresh with all new code ( before uox was GPL ie UOX3 ) from the knowlage he had learned from the uox team.

With that said Fuse was just that a SERVER ENGINE not the whole emu, it still required a DLL ( fusegame.dll ) to run a full emu. Fuse its self was closed source but he allowed the interface fuse.lib to be opened so other devolopers could make the actual game dynamics like combat , magic, etc without worrying about the low level server code like login and walking , he himself never made a DLL for fuse instead others like Cappella ( CFuse ) , XFuse , and others made dll to "plugin" to fuse.

This continued for a very long time ( untill early 2000 ) both Fuse and CFuse were devoloped ( upto client 1.26.04 ) then at that time fallo had left the uo seen altogather and cappella , westy and myself had been keeping the fuse engine togather ( still closed source ) and capella working on at the time the most popular dll ( cfuse also closed source ), thats where things got harry , Westy kept himself busy with Sphere, I myself moved to Sphere then shortly thereafter to UOX3 and Cappella had a new project going ( a totaly new online game from scratch NOT an emu ) so had very little time for fuse/cfuse let it slip into the abyss.

So that brings us to today. I had long since lost the cfuse dll and fuse source and cappella was very hard to get ahold of, and fallo was impossible ( as i dont think he even is on the internet anymore becouse of personal problems ) . Then Cappella pops in here reciently to a fourm i frequent and offers the source back and that he had updated the encrypt to work with the "no crypt clients".

So here we are with the codebase from cfuse and fuse combine to make one universal fuse , no more dll etc distobuted seperately and it is released under the GPL license.

As for how far along it is , i will post a doc under the doc section detailing what is working and what isnt etc sometime today."

http://smithysanvil.infymus.com/topic_fuse.html

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