====== user karl ======

===== Introduction ==

Grown up in the 1980s of West-Germany I came into contact with the \\ 
Role-Playing Game Dungeons & Dragons around the year 1985.

This made me reading books of JRR Tolkien \\
Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion.
 
Shortly after that I owned an Atari 800XL computer. \\
But I did not understand much about how to program, \\
and had no financial background to "upgrade" hardware further.

Windows 95, 98, 2000 was just heard of.

After 2000 I assembled some Pentium-I PCs from lumber finds, \\
and had to install some Linux found on the loot table of a \\
grocery supermarket chain : SuSE 6.2 .

I could upgrade to a computer with 800MHz and started to read magazines \\ 
about Linux. These magazines usually had installer CDs included. \\
So I installed just for the experience Debian 3.1 Sarge, where I could install \\
Crossfire as a game from the installer CDs or were it already DVDs? available.

I was really positively impressed by Crossfire.

At that time I did not own a telephone plug in my apartment \\
and the internet had been a "Fake News" fairy tale in the newspapers.

Since year 2010 I have internet access, and a few weeks later \\
I tried again, to figure out the Linux OSes available.

I stayed stuck with Puppy Linux.

Since around Autumn 2012 northern Hemisphere I remembered Crossfire \\
and downloaded the client's source code and compiled it.
  
Since that time I play on the [[:servers:Metalforge]] server mainly, \\
but have also a few (< 10 level) characters on the Netarbeiter server.

I compiled a lot of client and server versions \\
deciding that v.1.9.1 and later would probably compile on my system's GCC-4.2.2; \\
which they did.  

Many things I did not understand at that time, \\
I could simply not understand, that much in Crossfire is simply text.

Now it is year 2018 and I started again to look deeper into Crossfire, \\
setting up DM and passwords and the files in {prefix}/etc .


===== Files ==

I somehow came here to the Crossfire WIKI to learn about \\ 
[[:client side scripting]] . The only language I could learn had been bash, \\
fiddling with the Puppy Linux scripts. \\
My files are currently to be found in the Sitemap > user > karl > cauldron folder :name:space .

And [[:client_side_scripting:scripts:bash:cf_melt_icecube]] .