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<LI><em>From</em>: Dan Root <<A HREF="mailto:dar#thekeep,org">dar#thekeep,org</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: 11 May 1997 12:55:51 -0400</LI>
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<PRE>
<waves>
Dan Root here, and like Oliver Jowett, I offered to set up a design
list during the rgm.* reorganization debates the past couple weeks. At
least until I was told that this list already existed. :)
I've primarily been a MUSH player and admin for the past two years,
having run a small, but moderately successful, social/RP Mux for about
9 months before hardware failures killed the machine. It was during
this time that I started into mud design, making slight modifications
to the Mux codebase to make it more internally secure (mostly a couple
of new locks and some flags relating to privacy).
When the machine came back up I decided not to put the Mux up
immeadiately, but instead look at the options for what variety of
server to run. I had been less than impressed with the performance
and expandability of the MUSH-derivatives from within, so I went
looking for something better. Unfortunately all I found were old
abandoned projects and new, unfinished projects. Nothing I found
quite fit my needs. (ColdX and Muq both came close, but I wanted a
mud, not a generic network server, MOO was okay, but horribly coded
and not that great performance-wise). I considered CoolMUD, SMUG,
UnterMUD, and UberMUD as well, but all of those were lacking some set
of features I really wanted.
So, figuring I'm a decent enough coder, I'll write my own. My
goals are probably a little ambitious, but I'm hoping to see the
following:
A small footprint in memory (under 300k for the binary, plus object
and attribute caches for a total on the order of 1.5M resident in a
medium sized database).
A "mechanism not policy" setup, such that all the rules about the
'game' are kept internal to the database as opposed to hardcoded into
the server/driver. By extension, an internal language that's
powerful and efficient enough to code the game rules and secure
enough for day to day use.
A *small* codebase (ideally also under 300k) that's well documented
and cleanly coded such that it's easy to extend if necessary.
At this point I've finished most of my db layer, and a good portion of
my networking code. Now I just need to design and implement the
internal language. (I'm leaning towards a Forth/MUF-like stack-based
language at this point)
-DaR
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Dan Root - dar#thekeep,org
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<LI><STRONG>Introduction</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00358" HREF="msg00358.html">Introduction</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sat 10 May 1997, 18:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00414" HREF="msg00414.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 13 May 1997, 03:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00446" HREF="msg00446.html">Introduction</A></strong>,
Oliver Jowett <a href="mailto:oliver#sa-search,massey.ac.nz">oliver#sa-search,massey.ac.nz</a>, Wed 14 May 1997, 04:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00491" HREF="msg00491.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introduction</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Fri 16 May 1997, 07:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00373" HREF="msg00373.html">Introduction</A></strong>,
Dan Root <a href="mailto:dar#thekeep,org">dar#thekeep,org</a>, Sun 11 May 1997, 23:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00003" HREF="msg00003.html">From out of the shadows...</A></strong>,
Dan Mazeau <a href="mailto:dmazeau#wco,com">dmazeau#wco,com</a>, Wed 02 Apr 1997, 05:21 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00001" HREF="msg00001.html">Re: Mixture</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Tue 01 Apr 1997, 21:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00004" HREF="msg00004.html">Re: Mixture</A></strong>,
Furball <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Thu 03 Apr 1997, 02:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00005" HREF="msg00005.html">Re: Mixture</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Thu 03 Apr 1997, 05:56 GMT
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