Show HN: Tuicraft, a WoW 3.3.5a chat client for the terminal

Category: cli-tool

Tags: game-client, terminal-ui, reverse-engineering

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 9, Utility: 4)

Tuicraft is a terminal-based chat client for World of Warcraft 3.3.5a private servers, implementing the game's network protocol for authentication, chat, and social features. It's technically impressive as a pure TypeScript project that reverse-engineers a complex binary protocol to create a unique, scriptable interface for a legacy game.

Target audience: backend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/tvararu/tuicraft · TypeScript · AGPL-3.0 · 5 stars

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