RunUO Ultima Online Emulator Goes Opensource

Retalin writes "It looks like RunUO, the largest Ultima Online Emulator around has decided to opensource their project. It's caused quite a stir in their 40,000+ userbase." From the announcement post: "The RunUO team has collectively decided that we will be open sourcing RunUO's core to the public. At this point for the most part, the core is done and the only things remaining are game layer features. We have totally rewritten the networking piece of RunUO and Factions are pretty stable. We have completed a lot of the Ninja additions to UO and are ready to release the core code to the world."

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RunUO, the new age of Ultima Online.

[Ryan McAdams]

The RunUO Team has been working on RunUO for about two years, you can see the success of our work in one of our game servers over at UO Gamers.com which is free to play and you can even download the EA Games client for free legally from

RunUO itself is available to anyone via the download section and is very easy to install and has a great community to get support from. The main website is located at RunUO.com and the support community forum can be found here. We hope that the users of Slashdot enjoy RunUO if you give it a try and if you need anything please feel free to let myself or any of the developers or community members know on our forum.

Thanks again, and enjoy!

Re:Why hasn't EA killed this?

[prisonernumber7]

I'm an avid UO server software developer (not RunUO) myself and I can explain a little as to why: Years ago, Richard Garriot who held the rights to Ultima Online at that time sent out an open letter where he declared that he was fine with people developing uo server software and running free servers (freeshards) as long as they did not turn a profit from them.