Reentry Server

Years after the plug was pulled on Atmosphere and its official chat server, the zombies are back! Witness 3D worlds come alive again with Reentry Server, a work-in-progress implementation of the Yet Another Chat Protocol (YACP) version 0.5. Powered by Node.js, this modern rewrite of the open source Atmosphere Collaboration Server 7 will eventually make it easy for world builders to host their own chat rooms.

Progress

At the moment, Reentry Server only supports the most basic scenarios for interacting with the Atmosphere Community Server test client:

• moving around a world
• basic chat
• /avatar
• /goto
• /nick
• whispering

Sundry moderator slash-commands have been stubbed out but probably don’t work at all.

Usage

Getting started couldn’t be simpler:

1. Download and install Node.js.
2. In a shell, run npm install -g reentry-server to install Reentry Server globally. (If you don’t want to host the server yourself, free and paid Node.js hosting is available from a number of providers.)
3. Start the server with either yacpd or reentry-server.

The server can host chats in any .aer world created with Adobe Atmosphere. By default, Atmosphere sets a world’s chat server to yacp://atmosphere.adobe.com, which is no longer active. However, you can customize it to the address of your running Reentry Server or instruct users to map atmosphere.adobe.com to your hostname in their hosts file.

Users can connect to the server with any version of LiveSpace Explorer (except version 0.1), 3D Anarchy, or Adobe Atmosphere. Build 212d of the Adobe Atmosphere plugin is recommended.

Credit

Obviously, this project owes its existence to the Adobe Atmosphere team and the code they released under a generous, open source license. Credit is also due to Ryan Olds for his bufferpack module, and to the ragtag band of Atmosphere fans for their unwavering dedication to an awesome piece of abandonware.

Atmosphere is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.