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was https://turtle-wow.org/

A classic/vanilla World of Warcraft private server with additional modifications.

While it looks like it has hope, it fails because there are no quest markers on the minimap, so I don’t know where to find quests. I don’t want to re-live that part of things.

• 2024-11-29 – It was nuked by Blizzard at some point, but came back up again.

• Discord > https://discord.com/invite/mBGxmHy
• GitHub > [ 1 ]
• Instagram > [ 2 ]
• Reddit > [ 3 ]
• YouTube > https://www.youtube.com/@TurtleWoWTeam [ 4 ]

• Wiki > https://turtle-wow.fandom.com/wiki/Turtle_WoW_Wiki

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• 2004-11-23 – 60 – World of Warcraft 1 (Vanilla)

  • (posts)

2022-05-12 ∞

• The website lets you register, but there’s no motherfucking login feature listed.

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• Blizzard: It launches with insane graphics, and shows the cutscene for the only time with that resolution.
• Blizzard: There is no functionality to change graphic options before logging in.

• Changing video options

  • Fucking bullshit.
• It auto-joins a guild for new players. Ugh. I guess that’s a nice idea.
• Blizzard: There’s this regular “plink” sound. Apparently it’s the tips concept, and the exclamation point for them is pretty easy to miss.
• Blizzard: Is there no hotkey to interact with the target?
• There appears to be some sort of transmog system, but the icon / toast reward window for it seems to be cut off at the bottom of the screen. Maybe it was developed for the original low-resolution version of the game?
• Sometimes quest sounds happen twice.
• When talking Deputy Willem (Human starting zone), the quests don’t have exclamation points or question marks; they’re just yellow dots.

• Is there no hotkey to compare an item with what is worn?

  • Installed https://github.com/laytya/EQCompare-Vanilla

• Blizzard: It doesn’t save my password; annoying.

Usage and troubleshooting ∞

Changing video options ∞

If you have a second monitor, then you may not be able to change resolution or change to windowed mode; instead the screen will go black.

1. Exit the game
2. Unplug the second monitor
3. Re-launch the game
4. Log in
5. Change the video options
6. Exit
7. Plug in the second monitor
8. Re-launch the game

9. Log in

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• I think it’s possible to manually edit WTF\Config.wtf to change:

SET gxResolution "1920x1080"
SET gxWindow "1"
SET gxMaximize "1"

AddOns ∞

TODO – version

TODO – notes

• https://web.archive.org/web/20250920121205/https://forum.turtle-wow.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=874
• World of Warcraft addons

• 2004-11-23 – World of Warcraft 1 (Vanilla) addons

To note:

• https://github.com/laytya/EQCompare-Vanilla

Addons to consider ∞

• was https://forum.turtle-wow.org/viewforum.php?f=18

  • https://forum.turtle-wow.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2704

• World of Warcraft addons to check out

Footnotes

1. was https://github.com/slowtorta/turtlewow-bug-tracker/issues [ ↩ ]
2. was https://www.instagram.com/turtle.wow/ [ ↩ ]
3. was https://www.reddit.com/user/tw_torta/ [ ↩ ]
4. was https://www.youtube.com/@turtlewow
   was youtube.com/c/turtlewow [ ↩ ]