Howdy all, my well-known forum alias is John Adams (real first name so I don't forget it) and I have been around the gaming communities since the late 90's... discovering MMOs (Everquest was my first) in 2000. I've played nearly every major MMO that has come out since 2000. I quit playing Everquest in 2005, and after trying out the Progression servers in 2006, I discovering the EQEmulator project. I had no idea that game was emulated! And as they say, the rest is history. Since then I have hosted MMOEmulators.com, my personal collection of MMO Emulators and attempt to configure and run as many MMOs as I can acquire clients for, mostly for friends and family but occasionally a stranger makes their home in my little domain.
In real-life, professionally I am a software developer 'slash' QA engineer - that is to say, I write software that breaks other software, generally speaking. I have a slew of hobbies that keep me away from the computer (at least until I got involved with EQ2Emulator hehe). A little something that no one knows about me is that I am a composer - that is, writing music - as a hobby. In the 80's, I did the rock star gig for a few years that got me hooked into the music scene. Afterwards I settled in to contemporary movie and TV composition. Nothing anyone has ever heard of for sure, but it's fun for me. Maybe someday I'll even get paid.
Meanwhile, I fill my spare time with gaming (EQ2, EVE, and Vanguard + Fallout 3 and a slew of other console games), and working my ass off as the EQ2Emulator Database Project lead. It's hard work, but extremely fun and rewarding - especially when I watch players log into my server and experience the content that wouldn't have existed if not for me or my great team of Content Designers.
Oh yah, I guess some credit should go to that guy that wrote the emulator... whatshisname...Anyway, if you feel like doing so, start a new topic introducing yourself. Tell a little about you, something interesting, something unknown, what are you up to these days, etc. We'd like to get to know our community better!
