This NAS resurrection is starting to look almost possible, quite impressed. Is there any chance of more dev work, or is your plan so far just to keep the chain going? If you get a new dev then NAS could do OK. Distribution would be quite solid after so long in the crypto wilderness.
Watching with interest
For now, we're just playing around trying to get NAS functional again. I don't think any of us are serious developers that can take over NAS development. I'm not even sure if the source for NAS 1.1.3.N1 was made available.
If someone is willing to give it a try though, feel free.
We can get NAS updated to the last version of NXT, I think. The source of NAS 1.1.3(N1) is not available, but we have the
source for 0.8.13(N1), it is on post 1 of this thread (I already
posted about it 6 months ago). I greatly suspect that it is enough to get the client and server (NRS) updated, as the NAS transactions and blockchain structure should already be developed on this version. We can not get the WinNAS client, that is the part of software which is closed and lost. So, we will not recover the Dice, Lottery and Chat features, but we can get a clone of NXT with coins already distributed, with open source code, and maybe with 1 to 4 exchanges already working.
The plan could be:
- 1. Compare sources of NAS 0.8.13(N1) with sources of NXT 0.8.13, to get which source files are different, and in which manner.
- 2. Implement the same changes to version 1.1.3 of NXT, compile, and test if it works the same as our current version of NAS. I'm afraid that here we will need to review malfunctioning things, like the test network, used ports, up-to-date peers, etc, the same way that I reviewed the config file.
- 3. If we get the source for 1.1.3 running properly, we can try the same changes for the last version of NXT.
If we get success, we will have a starting point for other developers to implement new ideas, maybe the original WinNAS ideas, or we can just try to keep track of changes in NXT and get a continuously updated clone of NXT. I support the later option, people use to say that a pure clone has no interest, but I don't think so.