Welcome to the homepage for Netrek:The Next Generation (or NT:TNG for short).
The last major work was done in september of 1999. Since then, I've been to busy with other projects to do much more. The last released and tested version is the Alpha-7 released 990719, but the version in the CVS archive is considerably more advanced.
NT:TNG is a complete rewrite of one of the best, and oldest, multiplayer games on the net, namely netrek.
The game is released on OpenSource basis, using LGPL for the CSGC part, and GPL for the netrek specific parts. In following the philosophy of the Bazaar style of programming, I judge the program to be far enough along to be hackable, and I thus invite anyone interested in netrek or in client-server games in general to partake of this offering.
If you are interested in hacking on NT:TNG, you can take a look at the RFE's and unowned bugs on the bugtracking system to see what needs to be done.
The sourcecode is available by anonymous CVS from ftp.netrek.org, use
:pserver:netrek@ftp.netrek.org:/home/cvs
password 'netrek'
module NTTNG
Happy hacking