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Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

After 10 years of intermittent work, developer draxinar has released a full reverse-engineered portable C99 port of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server hosted on GitHub, replicating almost all original 1998 production server functionality, fixing stability and gameplay bugs, adding support for multiple Ultima Online client versions released between 1998 and 2007, and restoring cut features including the game's unused original ecology system. The open source project includes custom tooling for manipulating Ultima Online server data formats, and the developer is publicly seeking original 1997-2003 Ultima Online server save and resource files to further improve the project's historical accuracy.