New map desktop app coming soon (as long as it's still kosher with p99 rules)

[Kika Maslyaka]

Originally Posted by Tarbos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Correct me if I am wrong, but the maps you are using look like the in-game maps. Those did not exist back then. So, this is not classic, and you could not have done this back then, because you would not have the map to display your location on.
Parsing your locs from the logs, fine, but useless without a proper map to display your stuff on.

your are incorrect cause this software can actually create a map from the scratch - your char simply runs around zone edges doing /loc and the programs draws a map from the log file. Technically it works on the same principle that LOY cartographer system worked on for first people who were running around "drawing lines" with it (I know I did).

The ONLY thing that I can find not-classic with this is that old days EQ couldn't be ALT-TAB out of - so you could not run (or at least access) any other software at the same time. This would not prevent you from creating a map, but would prevent you from looking at your active position. However there was special eq-window box software introduced at some point which was used by 2-boxers.

[tristantio]

Well, in classic days even without alt tab you could share files across computers - since this is just scanning the /log file (a static file) there would have been nothing stopping said program from scanning a network file share mount of the main computer's EQ log directory (just would have required 2 machines).