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VentFinder & UltiCalc

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This is VentFinder and UltiCalc running on Debian in Google Cloud. Both of these applications were built and maintained by me in high school.

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VentFinder
Originally built for Windows, Mac, and finally written for Linux a little later
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VentFinder allowed users to submit and find publicly available Ventrilo servers to use for their gaming (or whatever their desire) purposes. This was a crowdsourced list that contained servers that allowed users of VentFinder to join. It contained a central list along with specific written details (that users could use to advertise their guild or community) available before joining a free server.

As Ventrilo faded in favour of more modern solutions like Discord: this project has been put to rest (although it still runs on 32-bit OS's, the central server is no longer in operation).
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UltiCalc
Built for macOS and Windows. Support for Linux ended in 2010 since Linux users could run the win32 binary under WINE (they'd need to run WoW under WINE anyway)
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UltiCalc was an arena point calculator for World of Warcraft. It allowed you to enter your rating for the week to determine how many points you were estimated to receive on reset day (Tuesday for NA servers). It was a pretty lightweight calculator with a heavy feature set that made it a valuable addition to an arena players toolset. It supported themes, sharing rating information, and had an automatic update mechanism for the app and rating formula (which never did end up changing after its launch).

As with VentFinder, the need for this app disappeared as World of Warcraft changed their mechanisms. It still runs on 32-bit operating systems and is available to check out on my site; however, the news server for displaying news posts along with the update server is no longer functional.
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