Clients:TAKP

Since The Al'Kabor Project is emulating the EQ Mac server, TAKP is unique in that it supports a native Mac client. This is a first-class native client with full support and not merely the PC client ran in a virtual machine or run via WINE. Not even Daybreak supports a Mac client anymore. The two clients are virtually identical in feature set, so from here on they shall be referred to in non-plural.

TAKP's client is from the December 2002 era. This is the actual client used in the era TAKP is emulating, and the oldest client in use for any emulated server. Other emulated servers use later era clients and may or may not remove some of the client's newer features to try and more closely mimic the classic experience. (classic in the sense of an older era of EQ, not merely pre-Kunark) TAKP is the only EverQuest server anywhere that is using an era-appropriate client. (note: this may change if EQ Classic launches a server)

TAKP's supported client however has several modifications that were done to improve the user experience:

   A built-in frame rate limiter was put in to cap the frame rate. (clients this old did not have one)
   The client's aggressive CPU use was reduced so it will not needlessly over-utilize an entire CPU core.
   An Alt-Enter fullscreen feature was implemented to enable full screen mode.
   Missing environmental sound effects added.
   The recently surfaced Luclin zone music was added.

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