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8402: [MUD-Dev] Re: Bruce Sterling on Virtual Community goals
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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:37:55 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Jon Leonard:]
>Even if there isn't interest, figuring out a base feature set would be
>useful, and I'd extract parts of my own server to match. (I have a fully
>RFC compliant telnet server, which I could disentangle from the rest of my
>code, for example.)
Hmm. That's just what I'm working on now. Stole the code from earlier
stuff. Do you handle all of the RFC's, including things like LINEMODE?
I was planning on cleaning up my stuff when done and offering it as an
example of telnet handling. Two examples are likely better than one!
>If there isn't a clear idea of what would be a useful base to extend on,
>that says something very interesting about the future of MUD design.
Perhaps that a lot of those writing servers from scratch are doing it
mostly for fun? Either that or are doing commercial projects where the
use of outside code might present legal problems?
:-)
I'd be game to do an in-MUD programming language component, but I betcha
few people would like the language (mostly strongly typed, syntax not
at all like C, etc.)
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Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA