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You can screen scrape the screen and do some rudimentary image parsing for OCR.

• Mandatum 12y ago
  WoW's botters took this one step further, disassembling the game to the point where they made WoW "clients" which could bot/gold farm at <15MB of memory - meaning you could have a hundred accounts botting on one PC.
  • virtualSatai 12y ago
    Do you have any more info/articles/discussions?
    • Mandatum 12y ago
      Trying to find it, it was a news article written as an interview with one of the original WoW Glider creators and his friend who also wrote bots.. Having trouble finding it..
    • DownGoat 12y ago
      Here is a Defcon video about the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABj_mrP-no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABj_mrP-no
      • gre 12y ago
        Here's a Blackhat video with a complete C# WoW client from 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKbZdlUFAK4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKbZdlUFAK4 11:55
        • Mandatum 12y ago
          Ah yep, it was the Defcon video I saw which mentioned it, never saw the C# code. Badass.
• jschmitz28 12y ago
  This particular bot seems to be more advanced than that: > Later I found out how to completely turn off the game’s graphics, making the Diablo windows look like black boxes.