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<LI><em>From</em>: "Justin Rogers" <<A HREF="mailto:justin#mlstoday,com">justin#mlstoday,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:30:30 -0800</LI>
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[JC Lawrence]
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> Wesley: I crossed your post to MUD-Dev for further comment.
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
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> From: "Wesley W. Terpstra" <terpstra#iota,dhs.org>
> Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.admin
> Subject: Collecting ideas for a MUD server...
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:35:13 +0000
>
> Some friends and I were thinking about writing a new MUD server from
> scratch and I thought it would be wise to collect information from
> people who have been running&coding them. :-)
Not a bad idea. Press the limits though and make it expandable. Use plugins,
new technologies (ActiveX), different network protocols, etc... If your
making a new one then go for broke.
> Our plans (at present) are to make a compiler/interpreter for a custom
> OO language and build the actual MUD completely in this language. As I
> understand it, MOO already takes this approach. What I would like to
> gather is a list of features that people consider essential to a MUD
> programming language.
Sounds nice. I programmed an ActiveX scripting language that I then connect
to through a plugin. It handles all basic arithematic and the such. The actual
core is programmed in C/C++. Plugins can be written in JavaScript, VBScript,
RexxScript, DigiScript (mine), as DLLs (must support custom interfaces), as
ActiveX controls (also must support custom interfaces), and as TCP/IP servers
that return formatted control streams.
[JC Lawrence]
> I also wanted to know of what MUDs currently implement any of the
> following: multithreading, guis, exploiting client processors, pgp
> certificates about players so their characters can move from one server
> to another w/o the two servers ever talking directly.
I don't know about existing muds that support too many of those things. I've
coded a plugin driver that accepts different types of plugins that interact
and create a game. Several of these plugins support multithreaded users.
A couple of export plugins use DirectPlay over the Internet and DirectX
streams with personally coded clients to stream 3D arenas (very small).
These clients therefore use quite a bit of the clients processors. And one
plugin if used properly and installed on all clients can create a MUD without
any server at all. Just the users.
The PGP thing is neat and I haven't thought about that one yet. It would be
neat, but negotiating a character through PGP isn't as easy as it sounds.
However,
using my WORMHOLE plugin you can easily connect multiple servers that are
all running a WORMHOLE program. I've used this for several space type games
I've created with my plugins.
> Thanks alot.
>
> - ---
> E-mail: terpstra#interchange,ubc.ca Host: iota.dhs.org
> PGP key: hkp://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/terpstra#interchange,ubc.ca
> <A HREF="http://www.iota.dhs.org/pgp-keys/terpstra.pgp">http://www.iota.dhs.org/pgp-keys/terpstra.pgp</A>
[End JC Lawrence]
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00747" HREF="msg00747.html">[MUD-Dev] Job Openings - Mud Engineering</A></strong>,
Christopher Allen <a href="mailto:ChristopherA@Skotos.net">ChristopherA@Skotos.net</a>, Thu 23 Dec 1999, 01:53 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00723" HREF="msg00723.html">[MUD-Dev] re: Originality/Points of Reference</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00718" HREF="msg00718.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw@cp.net">claw@cp.net</a>, Wed 22 Dec 1999, 00:47 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00717" HREF="msg00717.html">[MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00719" HREF="msg00719.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
Justin Rogers <a href="mailto:justin@mlstoday.com">justin@mlstoday.com</a>, Wed 22 Dec 1999, 01:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00727" HREF="msg00727.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
Rahul Sinha <a href="mailto:rsinha@glue.umd.edu">rsinha@glue.umd.edu</a>, Wed 22 Dec 1999, 20:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00730" HREF="msg00730.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00748" HREF="msg00748.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
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