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You can screen scrape the screen and do some rudimentary image parsing for OCR.

WoW's botters took this one step further, disassembling the game to the point where they made WoW "clients" which could bot/gold farm at <15MB of memory - meaning you could have a hundred accounts botting on one PC.

Do you have any more info/articles/discussions?

Trying to find it, it was a news article written as an interview with one of the original WoW Glider creators and his friend who also wrote bots.. Having trouble finding it..

Here is a Defcon video about the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABj_mrP-no

Here's a Blackhat video with a complete C# WoW client from 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKbZdlUFAK4 11:55

Ah yep, it was the Defcon video I saw which mentioned it, never saw the C# code. Badass.

This particular bot seems to be more advanced than that:

> Later I found out how to completely turn off the game’s graphics, making the Diablo windows look like black boxes.

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