Emulator in LUA Private

[clienta]

Is It possible?

 

[Droppy]

I think so, you can do an emulator with most of languages out there. I'm not a pro with LUA, but reading it now, looks like it's fairy possible.

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(Multithreaded example)

I wish some LUA Developer come here and have a look at it...

I think Glaceon develops in LUA...?

Your head is in the right place. Keep it going! Would love to see emulators avaliable in other languages than C# and Java...

Best of luck

 

[Emily]

I think so, you can do an emulator with most of languages out there. I'm not a pro with LUA, but reading it now, looks like it's fairy possible.

I'm basing my opinion on:

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(Multithreaded example)

I wish some LUA Developer come here and have a look at it...

I think Glaceon develops in LUA...?

Your head is in the right place. Keep it going! Would love to see emulators avaliable in other languages than C# and Java...

Best of luck

Naw. I have never looked at LUA actually. But as long as socket connections and mysql connection is possible and it's OOP, you can make a server out of it. I'm not a great expert in LUA

 

[The General]

Just Cause 2 servers are written in LUA (As far as I know). They seem to be pretty stable and able to handle a lot of connections.

 

[AWA]

Just Cause 2 servers are written in LUA (As far as I know). They seem to be pretty stable and able to handle a lot of connections.

JC-MP only uses LUA for scripting, not for the server software itself. LUA is a script language, and unless there's something out there that converts it to real programs, it won't be good to use to make the actual emulator.
That said, it is a really good language for supporting plugins and mods!

 

[Caustik]

Yes, you could write the high performance parts in C and embed Lua for stuff like game logic.
Writing the emulator in pure Lua would be interesting though.

 

[clienta]

So it would be difficult to make an emulator in lua?

atleast an stable one

 

[Caustik]

So it would be difficult to make an emulator in lua?

atleast an stable one

Not at all.

 

[Quackster]

JC-MP only uses LUA for scripting, not for the server software itself. LUA is a script language, and unless there's something out there that converts it to real programs, it won't be good to use to make the actual emulator.
That said, it is a really good language for supporting plugins and mods!

Hmm, I think SQF is a lot simpler to mod with but then again that's only limited to Bohemia Interactive's software.

 

[clienta]

Playing around with LuaSocket now



Should i use HTTP socket or TCP socket?

 

[Taiga]

Should i use HTTP socket or TCP socket?

It's possible but I wouldn't recommend everything to be written in lua tough..
And you've to use TCP-sockets.

 

[Cecer]

This sounds like an interesting learning project. Props to you for trying something new! I honestly don't think you'd ever want to use Lua for anything too big but it is a nice language to play around with. Some of the more complex features like metatables are really cool to work with.

Off Topic: Lua is a word (it means moon) and so shouldn't be all caps (specifically requested by the creators of Lua).

"Lua" (pronounced LOO-ah) means "Moon" in Portuguese. As such, it is neither an acronym nor an abbreviation, but a noun. More specifically, "Lua" is a name, the name of the Earth's moon and the name of the language. Like most names, it should be written in lower case with an initial capital, that is, "Lua". Please do not write it as "LUA", which is both ugly and confusing, because then it becomes an acronym with

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for different people. So, please, write "Lua" right!

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[dominic]

This sounds like an interesting learning project. Props to you for trying something new! I honestly don't think you'd ever want to use Lua for anything too big but it is a nice language to play around with. Some of the more complex features like metatables are really cool to work with.

Off Topic: Lua is a word (it means moon) and so shouldn't be all caps (specifically requested by the creators of Lua).

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Return of the great Cecer?

- Anyhow, I agree with him, though I would never use Lua for anything to hold a lot of connections.

 

[Moogly]

Naw. I have never looked at LUA actually. But as long as socket connections and mysql connection is possible and it's OOP, you can make a server out of it. I'm not a great expert in LUA

Something doesn't have to be Object Oriented in order to make a server out of it. If it has networking and file opening access (and database drivers), then you can make a Habbo server with the language.

Languages you can write a Habbo server in (not complete list):

Python
C
Go
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript (using Node.JS, and any Node.JS language, including TypeScript, CoffeeScript and others)
Pascal / Delphi
Visual Basic 6 / .NET
Lua (yes)
Haskell
OCaml / F# (would love to see this!)
Ruby (had a project like this years ago, but threading in Ruby sucks, not impossible, just not worth it, use JRuby instead or CoffeeScript with Node.JS)
and thousands of other languages, including RealBASIC, probably FreeBasic and many others.

Key features you want in whatever language you use:

Networking
Database Drivers or File Input and Output
Threading or subprocesses or something close enough, or capability of implementing using C or C++

 

[Emily]

Something doesn't have to be Object Oriented in order to make a server out of it. If it has networking and file opening access (and database drivers), then you can make a Habbo server with the language.

Languages you can write a Habbo server in (not complete list):

Python
C
Go
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript (using Node.JS, and any Node.JS language, including TypeScript, CoffeeScript and others)
Pascal / Delphi
Visual Basic 6 / .NET
Lua (yes)
Haskell
OCaml / F# (would love to see this!)
Ruby (had a project like this years ago, but threading in Ruby sucks, not impossible, just not worth it, use JRuby instead or CoffeeScript with Node.JS)
and thousands of other languages, including RealBASIC, probably FreeBasic and many others.

Key features you want in whatever language you use:

Networking
Database Drivers or File Input and Output
Threading or subprocesses or something close enough, or capability of implementing using C or C++

Yeah I know I wasn't thinking right thanks for correcting.

 

[Moogly]

Only posted it so others don't get the wrong misconsception about programming languages, and servers. Languages you wouldn't want to use:

PHP
Assembly
Visual Basic 6 (only use VB6 to "learn", not for a hotel...)

 

[BurakDev]

Only posted it so others don't get the wrong misconsception about programming languages, and servers. Languages you wouldn't want to use:

PHP
Assembly
Visual Basic 6 (only use VB6 to "learn", not for a hotel...)

My PHP emulator work on last release perfectly (just some features coded but working). I coded database pooling and I use pthreads (real php multithreading). PHP 7.0 will be very nice (JIT compiler and VM like Java/C#)

 

[Moogly]

My PHP emulator work on last release perfectly (just some features coded but working). I coded database pooling and I use pthreads (real php multithreading). PHP 7.0 will be very nice (JIT compiler and VM like Java/C#)

You're one of the few people I would expect to make a halfway decent emulator. However, I still personally wouldn't go for PHP server outside of hacking it up "just because you can". Every language is a tool for a different problem. I rather people learn Go or Python to make servers in. Python 3.4 has the beautiful asyncio library now.