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MangosVB is an open source project written in VB.Net. It's fast and stores game data in MySQL or MariaDB.
If you liked the original incarnation of World of Warcraft and still want to play it, this is the branch for you. We provide an authentication server where you can manage your users, and a world server which serves game content just like the original did back then.
It aims to be 100% compatible with the 3 final versions of Vanilla World of Warcraft,
namely patch 1.12.1, patch 1.12.2 & patch 1.12.3.
IT DOES NOT SUPPORT 1.13.x and beyond which is the newly released Classic Experience (NuClassic).
Supported platforms: Windows 7+, Linux, MacOS, Docker
.NET Core 3.1
MySQL 8.0
Visual Studio 2019 or any other editor with .NET support
The server stands on the shoulders of several well-known Open Source libraries plus a few awesome, but less known libraries to prevent us from inventing the wheel again.
We have a small, but extremely friendly and helpful community managed by MadMax and Antz.
Our discord/forum motto is:
'Be nice or Be somewhere else'Any trolling or unpleasantness is swiftly dealt with !!
We welcome anyone who is interested in enjoying older versions of wow or contributing and helping out !
We also have a Discord server where many of us hang out and discuss Mangos related stuff.
The repository of as much information as we can pack in. Details regarding the Database, file type definitions, packet definitons etc.
Found an issue or something which doesn't seem right, please log it in the relevant section of the Bug Tracker.
Installation instructions for various operation systems can be found here.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
The full license is included in the file LICENSE.
We have all put in hundreds of hours of time for free to make the server what it
is today.
All we ask is that if you modify the code and make improvements, please have
the decency to feed those changes back to us.
In addition, as a special exception, permission is granted to link the code of Mangos with the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library (or with modified versions of it that use the same license as the OpenSSL library), and distribute the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than OpenSSL.
World of Warcraft, and all related art, images, and lore are copyright Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.