StealthBot

From StealthBot Wiki

StealthBot is a chat and channel moderation "bot" intended for use on the official Battle.net servers. It was created by Stealth (Andy T) in Visual Basic 6. The current version is 2.6 Revision 3, released on April 19th, 2005.

History

Project Origins

StealthBot was originally created as a way for Stealth to apply the concepts taught in his sixth-period Introduction to Programming course at Madison's Memorial High School in the fall of 2002. He wrote the first line of code in the project on November 5th, 2002.

In the beginning, StealthBot used CleanSlateBot, a Microsoft Visual Basic control that allowed easy access to Battle.net. StealthBot entered the crowded Battle.net bot arena through the now-defunct website MadzBots. At this time, Battle.net bots were extremely complicated to set up, often shady and unreliable, and generally not accessible to the Battle.net population.

Version 0.5 Alpha

The first ever recorded version of StealthBot was 0.5, labeled "Alpha", which was able only to connect and chat on Battle.net. It saw limited use before version 1.0.

Version 1.0

Version 2.0

Version 2.1

Version 2.2

Version 2.3

Version 2.4

Version 2.5

Version 2.6

Version 2.7

Recent beta releases have seen the addition of several members to the development team. Several delays in the release of StealthBot 2.7 have made it the longest anticipated release in StealthBot's history.

Commands

StealthBot is known for its extensive list of built-in commands.

Scripting

StealthBot is extensible through a well-supported script system. These scripts are written in Visual Basic Scripting Edition.

Support Forums

StealthBot.net's technical support forums provide a quick means of getting support.

Operating System Support

StealthBot is written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6. It has been tested on the following versions of Windows:

Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP (all service pack levels)
Windows Vista (must be run as Administrator)
Windows 7 (must be run as Administrator)

StealthBot can also run natively on Linux through the use of Wine, but this is not supported by the developers or staff.