Comment by tiltrus

There was also a lot of other history outside of Jacmob...

There was iBot by Ruler Eric who got sued in Florida court by Jagex, with Jagex winning. iBot started of as a color bot, then eventually completely transformed into byte code editing.

Before Powerbot/RSBot, there was Arga, and before that, Aryan. IIRC Arga was the first bytecode editing bot, and Aryan was just a modified RuneScape client.

There was also a C++ Chinese bot used amongst all the Chinese farmers during the Arga days IIRC. This bot apparently working at the packet level (this is what AutoRune did back in the RSC days) and had super low resource usage. However had access to this bot definitely had a huge leg up to any other offerings.

Scar always existed, the forums exploded with activity inbetween the bot nukes (Aryan dying, etc.). I also remember SRL, and the horrible Pascal that came with it. All the random event solvers (e.g. magic box weren't open source -- they were hidden behind a compiled DLL that shipped with SRL).

Weird history, but I'm still in contact with a lot of people from the scene I've met 10+ years later.