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It was once upon a time ...

"Diego Oct 25
What is UOSteam? Is it a new project?

No, UOSteam is the essentially the same of AssistUO, it is not a new project. The reasons we quit AssistUO remains valid, we cannot afford the time and we do not have the will to continue developing an assistant.

Why not continuing on RunUO?

After I quit I thought Kraz would stay, but he said he was going to quit too, later I realized that the project was not going to continue being developed and there would be no support for our users because the RunUO team already have a lot on their plate. I preferred to be honest with you guys, that's why I said AssistUO wouldn't receives any further updates: no one was going to update it, despite we said they would.

What we didn't expected was this overwhelming repercussion, we - mostly Kraz, he always had been the head of our vibrant community - received TONS of emails, private messages, skype messages and stuff asking us to not halt development or, at least, give it support to client 7.0.33.1. We talked about it a few times and we decided to continue maintaining at least client compatibility. We also judged that would be better to disassociate from RunUO and make it a truly independent project for a few reasons, the main reason is that we may put someone to develop UOSteam, inside RunUO the process would be difficult because there is an entire community that could be affected in case something goes wrong or not the way the RunUO administration expects. Not to mention the update server access.

During the last months a lot happened inside the RunUO community, we have no personal issues or hard feelings with anyone, for real, and we hope you guys believe it because it is the truth. We also expect the Ultima Online community to remain supportive to our product, because it is not a big deal, we just changed names.

Why a new name?

We created UOSteam in order to have control over our product. As we decided to dettach from RunUO, a new name became necessary because Ryan owns the name "AssistUO" and it's respective website domain.

Conclusion

Again, it is not about an active development/new community all we said before still stands, we are just going to release a stable version and we may (or not) release trivial/minor updates from time to time"

Reading the forums, I find myself wanting to ask if using UOSteam is ok?

Well ... just my 2cps, I have always found the scribe key on other shards helpful ...

As has been stated you can loot a lot of scrolls, well when it comes time to make a full spell book, that can save a lot of time.  On the scribe keys is also the ability to store blank runes and blank scrolls, this really does make scribing a lot less messy.

Just my 2cps, I also thought it was locked down in place but then again .... my memory of these things were in boats, for boat mining.

Azreal, well seems we are both starting out

I am timezone USA Central Standard.  I am quite comfortable with the population I have encountered so far   There are some changes here from standard UO but once you encounter them there is nothing that cant be adapted to.

Perhaps the biggest is the Player(?) vendoring system, if you encounter it and are not walked through it, then just make sure you have chivalry or magic recall to get back to the medow(?) for the few that do not have a return teleporter.

Just a precautionary note that I would think NO ONE will fit, IF you do the upgrade, make darn sure you have at least 20GB of disk space free on your system drive.  It took me a while to determine that MS was NOT checking the available disk space.  Running VM's I keep the disk size pretty low, mostly around 32GB.

I run VMWare for Windows Workstation 11.

I run multiple VM's, I upgraded one machine from Windows 7 and one from Windows 8.1.  I also forced a fresh/clean install for Windows 10 from the downloaded .iso.

None of these gave me any issues with running any RunUO directories ... Sylvan was no issue on any of them either.

My own feeling is Windows 10 is not a significant upgrade .... at this time, who knows what it will be like as it evolves though.

Windows 8/8.1 meh your going to be happy and your going to be unhappy.

Windows 7 meh your going to be happy and your going to be unhappy.

For me the only significant point to upgrading to Windows 10 is ... well it is convoluted.  It is a free upgrade for the next year.  Microsoft is saying it is the Last Windows also.  I reply beware of tricky wording by people that think they are the smartest people around.

So on to the convoluted part.  Ok, Microsoft drops support on ... older OS's Windows 7 is certainly going to fall into that category.  Accept it, it will at some NOT to distant future be an unsupported OS.  IF your on Windows 7, my suggestion is simple, give this role out 3 to 4 months to let things settle down.  Then just do it, just hold your nose or what ever and say good by to Windows 7 and upgrade.

IF you are on Windows 8 (and I cant see how anyone can still be on , again wait the 3 to 4 months then just do it, just bite the bullet and upgrade.  Microsoft may not obsolete 8 but they sure as heck want to forget it ever existed.

IF your on Windows 8.1 you may be in the most precarious spot of all.  Microsoft policy MAY suggest that your 8.1 will be supported as long as there is no Windows 11 or what ever tricky thing they pull.  Meaning IF your happy with 8.1 then you have the choice to stay there BUT 1 year from now, you will lose the free upgrade capability, according to Microsoft at this time.

My opinion of Windows 10, is there is a lot of crap statements being made about it that my experience with it would say is simply NOT true.  It isnt the upgrade experience that was seen going from Windows Workstation 4.x to XP or Windows 2K to XP.  It is not the upgrade experience of going from XP to Windows 7.  IT is an acceptable (marginally) upgrade and for free that makes it ok.

Now for your own information and NONE of this is to be alarmist or anything negative, it is purely information ... just prior to the W10 role out, Microsoft altered its Software Licensing agreement.  Most of it was just Boilerplate Hyperbole.  BUT there was a significant change to one section.  Unless it has been changed, Microsoft is claiming the right to wipe any system they detect (read as believe or think they can prove) has illegal (read pirated copied etc) software (a distinction from data/information).  While I am some what troubled by this, I am not seeing it as a show stopper.  I assume that if this becomes a problem then the user community will ... respond.

IF anyone wants the procedure to Clean Install Windows 10, then ask here and I can provide a link or you can do a simple google Windows 10 wont install on Virtual Machines because of the Video Display.  Isn't it odd/strange etc., that EVERY supplier of Virtual Machine software EXCEPT Microsoft got FAILED 2 days before the Role Out of Windows 10, EVERY SINGLE SUPPLIER Now then if you use the downloadeable .iso to do the upgrade then everything works just fine ... now isn't that just strange