Short: p2p client, MorphOS port Author: Christian Rosentreter Uploader: polluks sdf lonestar org (Stefan Haubenthal) Type: comm/tcp Version: 3.0.0 Replaces: comm/tcp/mldonkey-2.6.3-morphos.lha Architecture: ppc-morphos Many of you have waited for this, a lot of you have nailed goats to the doors and joined mystical cults to worship the dark forces just to make this alive and kicking. I don't know where we're really going with this, but here it is and after months of waiting for this new version I'm very proud to present: MLDonkey 3.0.0 for MorphOS __ introduction ________________________________________________________________ In ancient times a community of miscellaneous computer geeks were, from ages long past dwelt the spirit of free and individual software. Back then, the geeks from the different systems lived in harmony. But as time went by most of these systems were destroyed by evil forces and unavoidable superiority from the insignificant city of Redmond. The users of those few that remained owed their full allegiance to the great spirit of old times, remembering the days of unlimited freedom in the un- fathomable space of the Internet. Sadly also the Internet became more and more flooded by proprietary soft- ware. It was no longer possible for the geeks to download free movies in which huge tentacled monsters do things to Japanese schoolgirls (hey, they still call that art!) from the web. But they saw it's possible if you join the forces from Redmond, because a lot of gratis filesharing tools were available for them. After an incredible exodus of remaining geeks to the other side a few true worshippers of the old spirits started to 'reverse-engeneer' the eDonkey network using Pandora, an efficient protocol sniffer. Geeks do such things sometimes and it was a very successful attempt resulting in the avail- ability of the first open-source multi-platform multi-networks peer-to- peer client, called MLdonkey. Indeed, they haven't stopped after implementing the eDonkey protokol, they also have added support for several other large networks, such as Over- net, Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc.), Gnutella2 (Share- aza), Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek, Direct-Connect and Opennap. Maybe you heard the saying: "The 'M' in Morphos stands for 'geek'." once? Yes, it's true and we are much more geeky than the other geeks from Linux and Co. Sadly it hasn't been possible for us ubergeeks to enjoy a port of this geektool simply because nobody of us ubergeeks ported the damn thing. So, a few months ago we locked CISC into a dingy cellar and told him he couldn't come out until he finished the Objective-Caml port, which was a required and important step for porting MLdonkey. We haven't heard from him for a very long time, and we couldn't be bothered to check. But all of a sudden he emerged from his dark dungeon. Fortunately (or maybe I should better say: unfortunately) he had finished OCaml and surprisingly also MLdonkey. Even though most MorphOS users religiously avoid PC stuff like I avoid people, we have now a possibility to join the community of warez and p0rn peer-to-peer traders. Watch out Amigans and MorphOS users! PC cooties!!! Aaaaah!!! If you find CISC then thank him for this nifty port, sadly when I last saw him he was running away screaming 'THE DARKNESS CONSUMES US! WE ARE ONE WITH THE VOID!'. Well, actually we've done this releases just for fun. The port is not finished, it still misses a GUI (hey, isn't this more geeky than the Linux version? Isn't it?). Also most of the 'Bonus' stuff was more or less been done in a very creepy and probably unusable way. We're still on the look- out for someone with some actual talent, so that we can all kick back and boss him around. So if for some insane reason you wish to volunteer in coding the MUI GUI then try to catch CISC on IRC or via eMail, else don't bother him or he will run away again. Anyway, here you can read all about this very port, hence the name of this file: 'Read Me!'. -- tokai