NeoHabitat - Revision history

Stu: Wrote up an intro blurb to the NeoHabitat article. This is now the most complete article on the wiki so far.

2023-04-10T21:11:44Z

Wrote up an intro blurb to the NeoHabitat article. This is now the most complete article on the wiki so far.

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	~~This~~ is ~~a work in progress~~, ~~come back soon! Check out~~ the ~~rest of~~ the ~~wiki too~~.		NeoHabitat is an open source modern revival of the classic [[Habitat]] virtual world, using the original client and a modern server backend. The public server is currently available at [http://www.neohabitat.org neohabitat.org]. You can also download the [https://github.com/frandallfarmer/neohabitat/ source code] yourself and spin up your own NeoHabitat server instance.

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	Gang,		Gang,

Stu: Added some info regarding the start of NeoHabitat development

2023-04-10T21:05:29Z

Added some info regarding the start of NeoHabitat development

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			After the Hackathon, The MADE was in contact with AOL to see if the original Quantum Link source code could be provided so the original server could be brought back online. Discussions took place for a couple of years, to the point where an employee who had been there a long time was able to find the files needed on old backups. Unfortunately, AOL was sold during this time and discussions closed down and the project had reached a dead end.

			==Habitat/Elko Server==
			On October 26th, 2016, Randy Farmer sent this message to the Habitat mailing list that was setup to co-ordinate the Hackathon efforts.

			<nowiki>
			randy.farmer
			Oct 20, 2016, 12:25:00 PM
			to hab...@themade.org
			Gang,

			I've been working on an alternate server for Habitat based on the MADE
			open source PL1 code. I've been implementing it on top of Elko
			https://github.com/FUDCo/Elko - which is fitting, as it is the 9th
			generation descendant of those ideas, but the same creator(s). :-)

			The Habitat/Elko server project will be open source also. I hope to
			announce first week of November - it won't be fully functional yet, but
			I want to have end-to-end login with the client working. When I announce
			it, I want to do so to encourage more people to work on it with me to
			get it to completion by year's end. It will then be 30 years since the
			Habitat Promotional Video.

			It doesn't have a repository yet, as it's not ready for anyone. I'm
			pre-announcing it to this list because I need your help.

			I now have the server working well enough that I can attempt an
			end-to-end connection (exactly the one we tested at the Habitat Hack
			Day) but find I can't duplicate the conditions.

			Though I have the same C64 code and emulator, what I don't have is the
			QLink Reloaded server (and configuraion) someone there was running on
			hack day. How can I get that same configuration/software?

			This is one of the last steps before I package this for GitHub and
			announce it to the world. I want to get it working end-to-end well
			enough that at least one person can log in and do basic operations
			within a region.

			I'm thinking of setting up a Slack for this project - Does MADE have a
			Slack?

			Randy</nowiki>

Stu: Filled out the NeoHabitat article with some rough info about the open sourcing period and a little about the hackathon. Also included an image of the first time the team were able to get a region to load.

2023-04-07T19:35:39Z

Filled out the NeoHabitat article with some rough info about the open sourcing period and a little about the hackathon. Also included an image of the first time the team were able to get a region to load.

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 This is a work in progress, come back soon! Check out the rest of the wiki too.
 =Development=
 ==Hackathon==
 A Hackathon was held on September 28th, 2014 at The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, CA to restore Habitat to a working state. Notable attendees included Chip Morningstar, Randy Farmer and others. A Stratus machine from the time period Habitat operated was donated by Stratus to help with the effort and was brought to the museum by Stratus employee Paul Green. The Stratus didn't end up being used due to Quantum Link source code being missing which the Habitat server code needed to compile. Instead, a "wafer thin" server was created which would send a handcrafted packet to the client containing a basic region and avatar. This goal was reached by the end of the night and after 20 years, Habitat was alive again in some form.
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 Thanks again for everything! It was awesome.
 Randy
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Stu: Created a page for NeoHabitat and wrote a brief blurb about the Hackathon in 2014. Included is a follow up email from Randy on the Habitat mailing list discussing what had happened.

2023-04-07T19:11:56Z

Created a page for NeoHabitat and wrote a brief blurb about the Hackathon in 2014. Included is a follow up email from Randy on the Habitat mailing list discussing what had happened.

New page

{{RenoInfobox
|title = NeoHabitat
|image = NeoHabitat.png
|developer = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Farmer Randy Farmer]
|platform = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 Commodore 64], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows Windows], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh Mac], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux]
|released = 2018
}}

This is a work in progress, come back soon! Check out the rest of the wiki too.

=Development=

==Hackathon==
A Hackathon was held on September 28th, 2014 at The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, CA to restore Habitat to a working state. Notable attendees included Chip Morningstar, Randy Farmer and others. A Stratus machine from the time period Habitat operated was donated by Stratus to help with the effort and was brought to the museum by Stratus employee Paul Green. The Stratus didn't end up being used due to Quantum Link source code being missing which the Habitat server code needed to compile. Instead, a "wafer thin" server was created which would send a handcrafted packet to the client containing a basic region and avatar. This goal was reached by the end of the night and after 20 years, Habitat was alive again in some form.

Here is a follow up from Randy Farmer to the Habitat mailing list after the event

<nowiki>
Randy Farmer <randy.farmer@pobox.com>
Sep 30, 2014, 6:05 PM
to habitat

I wanted to thank everyone who participated in the Habitat Hackithon on Sunday...
Though we didn't meet all our goals, we did get several things set up so that we will be able to do this in the foreseeable future.

We confirmed that VICE will run Habitat/Club Caribe all the way to rendering the region while serving IO traffic, unmodified! (Win!)
We have a working Stratus of the correct vintage up and on the network.
We discovered that we need more original QLink header (and ideally actual code) to get the full server up on the Stratus.
We were right on the cusp of having an extension to Qlink Reloaded that would mutliplex game traffic between a Habitat server and the client.
We have a "Waffer Theen" Fake Habitat Server that I whipped up for Node.JS, which provided the data used to confirm the client working...

What we need to do in short order:
1) Finish the QLR gateway code - MacMartin and Steve were very close, but there's nothing on the wiki so that we can pick up where they left off.
2) We need Paul's and Chip's comprehensive list of what's missing for the QLink build, and a strategy to get it (I think Alex said he'd lead this effort.)

There's a lot of little other tasks, but these two are the burning ones.

BTW, I whipped up another, more interesting "hatchery" contents vector, below. It is hand-crafted isn't confirmed to be working. Perhaps someone using Michael's hack can test it out? There's one more change I want to make to it (put the head on the avatar's shoulders), but only after I know it works.

Thanks again for everything! It was awesome.
Randy

var hatchery = Buffer([0x55, 0xFA, 0x00, 0x01, // Header "U" + Small Forced Reply: #message_DESCRIBE to Region Object
// (4) Region/System Variables
0x5d, 0x55, // terrain_type
0x5d, 0x55, // light_level
0x20, // region_depth
0x5d, 0x55, // region_class
0x01, // Who_am_I (NOID)
0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55, //bank_account_balance
// (20) Contents List
0x01, 0x01, // Avatar
0x02, 0x24, // Ground
0x03, 0x50, // Wall
0x04, 0x7f, // Head
0x05, 23, // Door
0x06, 56, // Short Sign
0x5d, 0x55, // EOL
// (34) Contents state vars, in list order, starting with the Avatar
0x5d, 0x55, // Style
0x54, // X
0x90, // Y
0x02, // Orientation
0x5d, 0x55, // Ani state
0x5d, 0x55, // Contained by (NOID)
0x92, // Avatar: Activity
0x92, // Avatar: Action
0x5d, 0x55, // Avatar: Health
0x5d, 0x55, // Avatar: Restrainer
0x02, 0x34, // Avatar: Customize
// (51) Ground:
0x01, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x04, 0xe4, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55,
// (60) Wall:
0x04, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55, 0xc4, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55,
// (70) Head
0x01, 0xc8, 0x24, 0x10, 0x01, 0x5d, 0x55,
// (77) Door
0x5d, 0x55, 0x80, 0x21, 0x88, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55,
0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55, // Door State and Key 0,0,0
// (91) Short Sign
0x04, 0x18, 0x88, 0x8c, 0x5d, 0x55, 0x5d, 0x55,
32, 84, 104, 101, 32, 77, 65, 68, 69, 32, // " The MADE "
0x5d, 0x55, // EOL
0 ]); // EOP (113)</nowiki>