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From: maddog@best.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:04:26 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Kanga.Nu
J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:10:03 PST8PDT
> maddog <maddog@best.com> wrote:
> >
> > colins sprinkled around some other muds. Unfortunately I got some
> > of the MOO colins going by making available my version called
> > madborg. It wasn't until I tried to interface madborg to a database
> > server that I realized he had a fatal flaw.
> Care to expoand on this? I, and I'm sure several other here, are
> interested in the flaws and your experiences.
I made madborg available for download and posted on how to
hack colins to create a madborg that would work in MOO or Cold.
The MOO/Cold madborg was stationary and everything worked fine.
But for the db project I wanted madborg to be mobile so I turned on his
room check code. As soon as I did that, I found that saying "hello" would
case him to core dump. I also see that I tested him on MUX and apparently
I was having the same problem. I probably would have continued to work on
him except for three reasons:
-I had to use cc instead of gcc or do a lot more code changes
-the code was difficult for me to understand in places
and too many things were hardcoded
-I discovered Joe Strout's python bot and
that became the new madborg
I think that julia/colins was a really fun bot in its time. But I
don't recommend that anyone today work with the old code.
frank