UNNOFICIAL Zen's EnvyMud patch Release 0.87j! (Ultra Envy2.2) Wednesday, 10th December 1997 Zen vasc@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt === Platforms --- UltraEnvy 0.87 These platforms have been directly tested: Generic PC x86 Linux 2.0.29 -Use Makefile.lnx DEC AXP 10000/620 Digital Unix V4.0B -Use Makefile.osf Sun Sun4 SunOS 5.5.1 -Use Makefile.sol Generic PC x86 Windows NT -See README.WIN If you have gcc on your system, it would be best to try the standard Makefile first. If you have cc on your system, it would be best to try the standard Makefile with gcc replaced with cc. The standard version of gcc as of this release is gcc 2.7.2.1 I am simply unable to test UltraEnvy on every platform. It should work on the same platforms Envy2.2 does, since this code isn't very machine dependent (i think). === Requirements The hardware requirements are essentially: two megabytes of memory; five megabytes of disk space; any 32-bit processor; 50 kilobits per second network bandwidth. Processor speed is not important. The software requirements are essentially: a C compiler; a Unix or Unix-like operating system; BSD-compatible TCP/IP networking. Envy uses 32-bit integers and is casual about the distinction between 'int' and 'long'. (It is possible to clean up the code to run with 16-bit integers, but the demand is nonexistent, and we don't have any 16-bit C compilers with which to test.) If you are running on a personal computer, make sure your C compiler is giving you 32-bit integers and not running in 16-bit mode. Area files, player files, the note file, class files, the socials file and the bugs/ideas/typo files are all in ASCII format, so that they may be freely moved from one machine type to another. === Performance All this measured on a 16MB Pentium 100 MHz running Linux 2.0.29. Boot time: 5 CPU seconds (Envy2.2: 5 CPU seconds on my system). Memory: 4984 bytes SZ size. CPU usage: 1.5 CPU minutes per hour + 1-2 CPU seconds per player. Disk space: 6 megabytes plus 10K per player file. IP packets: about 10 per second with 20 people logged in. (?)