Short:        p2p client, MorphOS port
Author:       Christian Rosentreter <http://www.binaryriot.org/>
Uploader:     Christian Rosentreter <tokai binaryriot org>
Type:         comm/tcp
Version:      2.8.1
Architecture: ppc-morphos

Many of you have waited for this, a lot of you have nailed goats to the  doors 
and joined mystical cults  to worship  the dark forces just to make this alive 
and kicking. I don't  know where we're really going  with this, but here it is 
and after months of waiting for this new version I'm very proud to present:

MLDonkey 2.8.1 for MorphOS


__ introduction ________________________________________________________________

    In ancient  times a community  of miscellaneous  computer geeks were, from 
    ages  long past dwelt the  spirit of  free and  individual  software. Back 
    then, the geeks from the different systems lived in harmony. 

    But as time  went by most of these  systems were  destroyed by evil forces 
    and  unavoidable superiority from the  insignificant city of  Redmond. The 
    users of those few that  remained owed their full allegiance to the  great 
    spirit of old  times, remembering the days of unlimited freedom in the un-
    fathomable space of the Internet.

    Sadly also the Internet became  more and more flooded by proprietary soft-
    ware. It was no  longer possible for the geeks to  download free movies in 
    which huge tentacled monsters do things to Japanese schoolgirls (hey, they 
    still call that art!) from the web. But they saw it's possible if you join 
    the forces  from Redmond, because a  lot of gratis  filesharing tools were 
    available for them. 

    After an incredible exodus of remaining geeks to the other side a few true 
    worshippers of the old  spirits started to 'reverse-engeneer' the  eDonkey 
    network using Pandora, an efficient protocol sniffer. Geeks do such things 
    sometimes  and it  was a very  successful attempt  resulting in the avail-
    ability of  the first  open-source multi-platform  multi-networks peer-to-
    peer client, called MLdonkey. 

    Indeed, they haven't stopped after implementing the eDonkey protokol, they 
    also  have added support  for several other  large networks, such as Over-
    net, Bittorrent,  Gnutella  (Bearshare, Limewire, etc.), Gnutella2 (Share-
    aza), Fasttrack  (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster),  Soulseek,  Direct-Connect  and 
    Opennap. 

    Maybe you  heard the saying: "The 'M' in Morphos stands for 'geek'." once?
    Yes, it's true and we are  much more geeky than the other geeks from Linux 
    and Co. Sadly it hasn't been possible for us ubergeeks  to enjoy a port of 
    this geektool simply because nobody of us ubergeeks ported the damn thing. 
    So, a few months  ago we locked CISC into a dingy cellar and  told him  he 
    couldn't come out  until he finished the  Objective-Caml port, which was a 
    required  and important  step for porting MLdonkey. We  haven't heard from 
    him for a very long time, and we couldn't be bothered to check. But all of 
    a sudden he emerged from  his dark dungeon. Fortunately (or maybe I should 
    better  say: unfortunately) he had  finished  OCaml and  surprisingly also 
    MLdonkey. 

    Even  though most  MorphOS users  religiously avoid  PC stuff like I avoid 
    people, we have now  a possibility to join the community of warez and p0rn
    peer-to-peer  traders. Watch  out Amigans and MorphOS users! PC cooties!!! 
    Aaaaah!!!

    If you find CISC then thank him for this nifty port, sadly when I last saw 
    him he was running  away screaming  'THE DARKNESS CONSUMES US!  WE ARE ONE 
    WITH THE VOID!'. 

    Well, actually  we've done  this releases just  for fun. The  port is  not 
    finished, it still misses a GUI (hey, isn't this more geeky than the Linux 
    version? Isn't it?). Also most of the 'Bonus' stuff  was more or less been 
    done in a  very creepy and probably unusable way. We're still on the look-
    out for someone with some actual talent,  so that we can all kick back and 
    boss him  around. So  if for  some insane  reason you wish to volunteer in 
    coding the MUI GUI then try to catch CISC on IRC  or via eMail, else don't 
    bother him or he will run away again.
    
    Anyway, here you can read all about this very port, hence the name of this 
    file: 'Read Me!'.


    -- tokai