CasperTech leaves METAbolt – Hypergrid Business

UK-based CasperTech Ltd., has stopped working on theÂ development of the text-only METAbolt viewer, company director Casper Warden announced recently.

“We have been asked to cease using the METAbolt brand with immediate effect, due to a political disagreement with the original creator,” he wrote. “With no maintainer, it appears that METAbolt will no longer be developed.”

However, CasperTech will be releasing an alternative viewer, under a different name, he said, based on a fork of the Radegast viewer.

“There is no ETA for completion since the replacement work only began in April 2015,” he said in a post on the project’s Wiki.

He added that METAbolt bots used in the CasperLet or CasperVend systems will continue to work.

“You are still able to use METAbolt at this time, as long as you understand that if something breaks, it will not be fixed,” he said.

METAbolt is a non-graphical, text-only viewer for Second Life and OpenSim. It designed to be used in situations of low bandwidth and on machines which do not have the processing capability to run a full viewer. It can also be used to run â€œbotsâ€ â€” automated systems that provide in-world customer service, security, or group invites.

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Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.