MaNGOS was formally announced as a public open source project around the 28th August 2005 by theLuda, he remained at the helm until December 2012 when he decided to retire from the emu scene. At this time he handed over the reins to Antz (Billy1arm on github etc.) who has run the project ever since.
During its history several splits occurred (all prior to December 2012) and from these the Trinity Core & Cmangos forks among many others were formed.
Due to legal disagreements, the website URL and icon has changed several times over its history. mangosproject.org, getmangos.com, getmangos.co.uk, its current home is getmangos.eu.
Over the years we have had a selection of Icons:
The last one being a copyright violation of a chinese Tv channel !
But have settled on the
family of icons designed by UnkleNuke which vary slightly by core/expansion (see the full set HERE).
The original ideals and insistence that MaNGOS remained an open-source educational project continues today.
MaNGOS has a small, but extremely friendly and helpful community managed by MadMax and Antz. Any trolling or unpleasantness is swiftly dealt with !!
We welcome anyone who is interested in enjoying older versions of wow or contributing and helping out !
We supports 5 WoW versions: Vanilla, TBC, WOTLK, CATA and MOP (although the CATA and MOP branches are in need of work) written in c++ in many different github repositories.
We also have a vb.Net based Emulator called MangosVB for Vanilla, TBC and WOTLK (originally called Spurious before merging under the MaNGOS banner).
In addition we now also have a prototype C# project MangosSharp (aka Mangos#) using .Net 5, which is based on the work on mangosVB.
The overall plan is that all three sub-projects Mangos, MangosVB and Mangos# will use the same database across the cores.
We also have a couple of Utility repositories as well