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<LI><em>From</em>: Jeff Kesselman &lt;<A HREF="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</A>&gt;</LI>
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<PRE>
If folks have really interesting things at a point of completion where you
think outsiders would enjoy it and it would be up relatively consistently
I MAY be able to find you a home on TEN equiptment.  Its got to be Sparc
based because that's what we run here.  (If its generic UNIX and gcc I can
probably set you up with a  compile environment to recompile.)

No promises, sicne I'm not in the positio to make those, but email me if
you think this has possabilities and I'll see what I can do...

JK

At 03:42 PM 8/15/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
&gt;In &lt;<A HREF="msg00593.html">9708150011.AA27888#divcom,umop-ap.com</A>&gt;, on 08/14/97 
&gt;   at 05:24 PM, "Jon Leonard" &lt;jleonard#divcom,umop-ap.com&gt; said:
&gt;
&gt;&gt;An approach I've been considering to this kind of problem is to have
&gt;&gt;all actions take some time, and be "in progress" while they are
&gt;&gt;happening.
&gt;...
&gt;&gt;Similarly, "west" really means "start walking westwards, and stop
&gt;&gt;upon reaching something interesting"
&gt;...
&gt;&gt;It limits how quickly players can move between areas to a reasonable
&gt;&gt;speed. It changes descriptions from "Boffo is here." to "Boffo is
&gt;&gt;walking northwards." Players can be interrupted in the middle of
&gt;&gt;actions, and interrupt their own actions.
&gt;
&gt;Good point.  I've got to think about this.  It would change the entire
&gt;character of motion.  It really does seem essential for any sort of
&gt;coordinate cased system.  I suspect that all motion will actually
&gt;become, "move towards", "stop", "turn towards", or "turn away from
&gt;right/left" in form.
&gt;
&gt;&gt;Also, I have a dedicated network connection to my home computers, and
&gt;&gt;if anyone on this list wants a home for an interesting game, it's
&gt;&gt;available. (Unfortunately the link is only 28.8 -- It's out of my own
&gt;&gt;pocket.)
&gt;
&gt;Yeah, that's what I'm in the middle of investigating (the new modem
&gt;should be in next week).  I just found a local provider that will do
&gt;dedicated v.34 for $65/month.  ISDN is proving more tricky as I've yet
&gt;to find an ISP not in Texas who will do Centrex 2B ISDN for less than
&gt;a small fortune (tho I may finally be on the trail).
&gt;
&gt;-- 
&gt;J C Lawrence                           Internet: claw#null,net
&gt;(Contractor)                           Internet: coder#ibm,net
&gt;---------------(*)               Internet: clawrenc#cup,hp.com
&gt;...Honorary Member Clan McFUD -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
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Jeff Kesselman
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TEN -- The Total Entertainment Network -- www.ten.net

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<LI><strong><A NAME="00586" HREF="msg00586.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Spellcaster, or Waving Hands</A></strong>, 
Michael Hohensee <a href="mailto:michael#sparta,mainstream.net">michael#sparta,mainstream.net</a>, Thu 14 Aug 1997, 23:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00611" HREF="msg00611.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Spellcaster, or Waving Hands</A></strong>, 
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Fri 15 Aug 1997, 22:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00593" HREF="msg00593.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Spellcaster, or Waving Hands</A></strong>, 
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00614" HREF="msg00614.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Spellcaster, or Waving Hands</A></strong>, 
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Fri 15 Aug 1997, 22:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00615" HREF="msg00615.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Spellcaster, or Waving Hands</A></strong>, 
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Fri 15 Aug 1997, 23:05 GMT
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clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 07 Aug 1997, 01:00 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00415" HREF="msg00415.html">Mud Languages</A></strong>, 
Greg Munt <a href="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</a>, Thu 07 Aug 1997, 00:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00525" HREF="msg00525.html">Re: [MUD-Dev]  Mud Languages</A></strong>, 
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 13 Aug 1997, 23:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00414" HREF="msg00414.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Generalized AI last try!</A></strong>, 
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 06 Aug 1997, 22:50 GMT
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