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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Holly Sommer <<A HREF="mailto:hsommer#micro,ti.com">hsommer#micro,ti.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:09:34 -0500 (CDT)</LI>
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Alex Stewart wrote:
> What are your current projects? For those of us out here pushing the
> technological envelope (or just hacking around), what are we up to,
> anyway?
Current project:
Not pushing a technological envelope really, by any stretch of the
imagination, but we ARE making a move to (for lack of a better word)
convert what was, for 3.5+ years, a NiMUD (Diku derivitive) into a
Lima-based MUD.
Specifically, utilities for converting between the Diku-esque "all in one
area file" and the Lp "each thing has its own file" heirarchy. Nothing
all that interesting to 95% of the folks here, but it's proven to be an
enormous (if not, at times, challenging and frustrating) learning
experience for me. I'm about 1/5th of the way through with the
conversion, and have 152 lines of tasty perl code to show (*waves to JC*)
for it.
> In particular:
> * What kind of software are you working on? (MUD driver, MUD client, etc?)
I guess the answer to this would be "mudlib."
> * Why?
Well, out of necessity. A hard drive meltdown left us with old area files
that didn't agree with new code, and we were about to make a paradigm
shift in some other direction about the time the HDD gave up the ghost,
so it made sense to just go ahead and do it now.
The biggest challenge will be in training the old builders (accustomed to
a very easy OLC) to learn LpC. This is a Big Task.
> * What are its features?
At the risk of drawing snickers from folks, I personally am hoping to
incorporate what I (at least) regard as the best of both worlds, into one
game. I took it as a compliment that hardly anyone who had logged into
the previous server could tell what codebase was running. Some guessed
Lp, some guessed Smaug, etc. Having a game which is useable without
screaming of one 'base or another is important to me, and I'm not sure why.
I'll name features later, as we get them implemented.
Hopefully, this isn't too mundane an answer to the question(s) posed :)
-Holly
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00153" HREF="msg00153.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Ryan Prince <a href="mailto:jynx_ryn#mindless,com">jynx_ryn#mindless,com</a>, Mon 12 Oct 1998, 00:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00176" HREF="msg00176.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
chris <a href="mailto:chris#realm,zfn.uni-bremen.de">chris#realm,zfn.uni-bremen.de</a>, Tue 13 Oct 1998, 18:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00195" HREF="msg00195.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Andrew Wilson <a href="mailto:andrew#aaaaaaaa,demon.co.uk">andrew#aaaaaaaa,demon.co.uk</a>, Wed 14 Oct 1998, 03:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00226" HREF="msg00226.html">[MUD-Dev] Current Projects</A></strong>,
Niklas Elmqvist <a href="mailto:d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se">d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 10:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00227" HREF="msg00227.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Current Projects</A></strong>,
Holly Sommer <a href="mailto:hsommer#micro,ti.com">hsommer#micro,ti.com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 17:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00130" HREF="msg00130.html">[MUD-Dev] Current Projects</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Fri 09 Oct 1998, 07:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00146" HREF="msg00146.html">[MUD-Dev] MUVE vs. MUD [was Re: Current Projects]</A></strong>,
Alex Stewart <a href="mailto:riche#crl,com">riche#crl,com</a>, Sat 10 Oct 1998, 09:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00193" HREF="msg00193.html">[MUD-Dev] Current Projects</A></strong>,
David Bennett <a href="mailto:ddt#discworld,imaginary.com">ddt#discworld,imaginary.com</a>, Tue 13 Oct 1998, 23:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00125" HREF="msg00125.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
Alex Stewart <a href="mailto:riche#crl,com">riche#crl,com</a>, Thu 08 Oct 1998, 10:11 GMT
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