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i think the scope really is that slow, but maybe there is something undocumented or new since I made this video. i tried some other things too but i forget what, i know i knocked up a shell script to pull data from the device - i think it was just to pull a screenshot though but whatever it was i recall that being quite slow too. i had a look but couldnt find the stuff i had experimented with, but there is another place i can try. will update you here - but if i forget feel free to prod.

Hello, I sure do, and have fond memories of it. Although I will say, blast from the past, it's been a long time!

Sam! You have brought back a flood of fond memories and the deep respect i have for you. I'm so glad you wrote something. I hope things are going well for you mate.

(part 1) At the very start I was just a fan of the game like everyone else, then a friend encouraged me to make an addon for it because there wasn't a working server selector mod that worked any more. When my mod started to get used by a lot of people, a team of us started to form and then we (agariomods) began a good relationship with Zeach (guy who made agario), where we were given early access a couple of days before anyone else to big updates so we had a chance to update our mod to be compatible etc. Props to Zeach for that. At some point though, where miniclip had bought the game the collaboration ended. At first it was just a lot changes happening, really regularly, which made it tough for us to keep updating fast enough to keep up. We were serving millions of players by this point, and so, any time our mod broke we had a lot of miserable people to help and so we did it as fast as we could. That lead to burn out, many on our team had gotten over the initial fascination with the game anyway, and so.. as more breaking changes occured we stepped back and decided that we weren't really going to try very hard to keep up any more. We still kept up, but, I was entirely sick of it by this point.. Then another developer we met had develpoed a framework, so that mods like ours can use that system to build on top of.. meaning that a larger community could take advantage of all the updates we all made, in theory making it easier to keep up and take a lot of work off of our shoulders. We did a big release, it went well, and we were quite pleased with it. At some point though, might have been before this release, I received a cease and desist or whatever it's called where a legal representative of miniclip threatened us trying to make us shut down. I reached out, explained the relationship we had with Zeach mentioning his real name etc to try and prove that actually, we can back up our claim that it was with permission etc. Around this point, miniclip decided that it would totally change the way the game was made for the web browser. Previously it was in a language called JavaScript, almost all of the websites on the internet now use it in some form and whilst the stuff that we had to wrestle with had been processed in a way that made it seem like it went through a blender to mangle and compress it - it was something we were good at working with. The new version was more akin to a program you might run on the desktop, i can't really describe it other than to say it was no longer human readable. I mean, .. in my teenage years I did tackle that kind of software modding as well but it's a lot more laborious. I made some progress to reverse engineering it, was able to do some basic things like change the leaderboard text and some other visual things but it took me hours to even get to that point. One of the key aspects to agariomods was that ethos that we would not distribute the code for agario, as in.. a user would go to the site and their browser would load the game as normal and THEN our mod would take over and make the necessary changes. I believed firmly that we shouldn't engage in any form of piracy or sharing code that wasn't ours. That was tough in many ways for us, but it also meant that we created ways for our code to automatically repair itself if an update came out that we hadn't yet seen yet ourselves. So, sometimes our code would withstand several updates by agario without breaking. This was essential as we hated the idea of pissing off millions of gamers when it broke. This brings me back to the point about the change miniclip made, with how the code wasn't the normal game code we had been working with and we kept a history of all game changes over time, which I obviously reviewed to try and understand the problem at hand. I don't know what changes were occuring on their side of things, but the result was that software that powered the game would drastically change in size and layout on almost each update.. sometimes multiple times in a day. I guess as they were ironing out their new game code it was necessary for them to keep fixing it up. So... I spent hours, just superficially modifying the game interface.. Where I realised just how much work this is likely to be going forward.. and then knowing that even if I do manage to mod it and get it back up to the high standard people expectedof us... I can't do that every day. At that time I was the only person on the team with the required skillset to pull this off, and I was already sick and tired of miniclip and their bullshit. My choices were,.. continue to support miniclip by providing something that drastically improved their game, keeping people playing the game, but ultimately lining their pockets and fighting with them daily or just.. ya know.. fuck it. I quit. I closed agariomods and everyone else were in agreement it just wasn't worth it any more.

(part 3) Hey, Just wanted to say thanks for asking, and giving me a chance to reflect on things after so long. I enjoyed that. And.. lol.. Sorry.. I wrote a lot.

(part 2) The thing is though, the players like yourself, were awesome to make something special for. Felt awesome to make something that people actually appreciated and wanted to use. I miss that. Something else that may not be obvious to people who weren't within our team, it was that I had the pleasure and oppertunity to try and promote other individuals. Other game developers for example, I could sometimes promote a game that was great but not getting much attention yet, or the music and sound effects in the mod were from people that can make cool stuff but didn't yet have a lot of exposure. Large parts of the mod were contributions, that we took on and maintained to keep them alive, etc. We could provide game modes and servers that were local to our players, which meant that even though miniclip wouldn't provide decent servers to people, at least our players had somewhere that played smoothly and wouldn't keep crashing / lagging / etc. Im proud to know that we did a lot of good.

@@ElectronoobGeekingOut I see, That must of been very tough to go through. It was fun while it lasted. I would of just made a new mod and host it on my own website or something like that. But, that might be hard work maintaining it, but probably not as bad.

im really sorry, it's one of those projects that i started and then forgot to finish :(

the very not at all functional code is at github.com/electronoob/yy-chr2web but it's useless unfortunately.

im sorry dude, yeah, it was kickass and in a way i miss it too.

aw :D

Electronoob: Geeking Out all good here bro, you got my email address still ?? If so drop me a mail, would be good to catch up !

yeah it took me a while to finally get online with the game cuz i didn't want to sign up for stuff and get dumb bills from someone i didn't know. but i eventually ended up at the UTzone site for maps and skins and custom stuff, in Germany. Donzi is the head guy there. do you already have the 200MB exe Bonus Package, that came out 6 months into the release of UT2004? they have it there are that site, no sign up and free download. ^^ -msi

Tell Me What Happened With AgarioMods/IoMods! Tell Me Why It Closed/Shutdown! If We Work Together We Can Bring AgarioMods/IoMods Back!

if you get a free tk domain you can just port agario and host iomods from there.

Electronoob: Geeking Out ever since your mod dissapered all of my enjoyment of Agar.io dissappered