Hey guys, did the development really stop? I mean the last update was on March 7th 2008 and since the nothing noteworty happened, right? I would really like to see some improvements or maybe I'm just blind?

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Nope, i think development does't stop...
I hoped till March 7th 2009 they just wait for the anniversary of the last Update...

No, development didn't stop.
Well, we are nearly finished with new version I think.
Perhaps some bugs here and there, but development is not to steady
Other projects and so on, you know

I've pretty much been dead here. I helped fix some of the overflows and did some work on a syntax highlighting editor before I left.

Last time I was here bob was doing stuff from the database side and all that was left was some more work on the editor, and some formatting issues with the command line. All the security stuff was suppose to be fixed with encryption and CGI checks. We got a blowfish module working with VB6, but couldn't do anything with it till a PHP handler was implemented.

I guess they did all that now. Bob is the only one who is able to do all the server side stuff.

Me and bob where working on encryption last time I was here with a VB6 module. I forget what we agreed on, but we where having trouble thinking of a key exchange, and all I could come up with was pkp.

I thought bob fixed the in game request forgeries and such to from CGI too. He might have never implemented them. It wouldn't really take much work to get all the requests and security issues done. A few developers could do it in a day if Bob had the time to write php to handle the new client functions.

-(disappears again)-

Lol, oh, hai hord!

Im like, uber busy with uni at the moment (still have 3 assignments due in 2 weeks before end of semester). But yes, ALOT of work has been done on DSO, afew people around have seen it, but not many. Work isnt stoped, but work isnt going either.

Just like many of my own projects LoL

Ohay

I hope so much dev isn't stopped
You've got one more new player and I will speak about it to hacking-happy friends
This is just ... so much better than regular hacking games !

Edit : Yup.. First post

Welcome then... I hope the development keeps its way...

I still say DSO is a prime candidate for LGPL and a source repository. Even if there are future plans for paid subscriptions to support server upkeep or whatever the authentication and session management are all server side, so there is no reason to keep a closed binary. The security for this can't be jeopardized from the client, the only vulnerability could be through CGI.

As it stands you can't really reverse engineer anything in the client to work for effective cheating or hacking. The script runtime is the only design hole outside the to-be-patched in-game things.

I don't say this because I blindly support OSS, but because it'd make the code-base and features come to where it's wanted many times faster as long as you have ~1-3 people maintaining patch commits to a repository.

It's nice to hear stuff is still being done. I only have the source with my and Bob's fixes, if the server side is ever brought up to a finish point I'd like to get the new client source and finish the editor and fix some of the render bug reports. Also there are also some VB6 runtime optimizations and code refinement that can be done especially in the script tokenizer and runtime debugger.