Dawn of Light, also known as DOL is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 server emulator

Server emulator

Server emulator, a term that is widely used to describe reimplementation of MMORPG game servers, typically clones proprietary commercial software by a third party. The term "private server" is also used while it may not be accurate as often the legitimate server is also privately owned...

 for the MMORPG

MMORPG

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 Dark Age of Camelot

Dark Age of Camelot

Dark Age of Camelot is a 3D medieval fantasy MMORPG, released on October 10 2001 in North America and in Europe shortly after through it's partner GOA. It is still running today recently celebrating its 10th anniversary....

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It is written in C# , with limited support for Mono

Mono (software)

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The project can emulate nearly all aspects of the game and server operators can modify the server to adapt custom rules using the .NET Framework

.NET Framework

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Dawn of Light creates the framework to run live-like mirrors of servers as well as the ability to make changes to experience rates, the server software that is developed is very customisable which allows development of alternative rule-sets for example the Storm: D2 server runs a Diablo 2 rule-set.

There are a number of public servers running DOL, the largest peaks at over 1200 players on-line. There is no full time support team and all work on servers and the project are voluntary.

The server is released under the GNU General Public Licence