Mud Client?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

Any MUD fans out there? I'm looking for a GUI mud client.
The one that comes with Gnome just doesn't fit the bill for me. Crashes alot too.

Thanks

Jeevz · Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 1:40 pm Post subject:

I'm also curious about this? Any suggestions?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

At first glance, I'm not sure any are suitable for me. Here's what I've found so far, in no particular order.

http://xpertmud.sourceforge.net/
http://smm.sourceforge.net/portal/html/
http://linuz.sns.it/~max/powwow/
http://www.gtk-papaya.org/
http://haali.rt.ru/mmc/

Anyone have experience with any of these?

Jeevz · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2002 12:43 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info. I will check them out.

jspectre · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Midwest, USA

forget the gui clients.. fire up a terminal and use tinyfugue, you won't find anything as powerful out there period. the scripting language is top-notch.

-js

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 8:10 pm Post subject:

Check this out:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/crescendo/?topic_id=58%2C150

Never used it though. Personally I would also recommend SMM++ and Trebuchet
http://freshmeat.net/projects/trebtk/?topic_id=22%2C86

rachaef

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out. I've been tinkering with tinyfugue, but I just don't think it's going to work.

Academician · Guest

I've always been partial to Erwin Andreasen's "mcl". It's command-line, but it has all the features I need in general and it works quite well (even in a transparent aterm).

http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/

Hope that helps a little bit. I couldn't find many very decent gui mud clients, aside from one written in TCL/Tk which seemed full-featured though a little buggy. I've since forgotten the name, however :P

--Academician

Academician · Guest

Ah, the TCL/Tk one was SMM++. Check it out:

http://smm.sourceforge.net/portal/html/

--Academician

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

jspectre · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Midwest, USA

well i've been using tinyfugue for about 12 years and i know it's older than that.. or you could check out tintin++, that's been around forever, http://mail.newclear.net/tintin but is yet another console client.

i'm curious, what are you looking for that's not available in a console client? graphical mapping is about the only thing, but there are scripts out there that will generate text-based graphic maps for muds for tf and tintin++. i've often found the graphical clients to be focused on interface and not features, most important for a client for me is the scripting ability, triggers, and speeeed. the rest is all fluff. after all most mud/mush/moo's are text based.

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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

First thing that comes to mind is scrollback. I haven't seen one I liked in a console yet. With tf in particular, the curor jumps back and forth from the
input window (3 lines at bottom) to the output window. Its minor, but a little annoying, and quite possibly could cause death

.

I don't mind doing some manual configuration, but consoles tend to be a bit cumbersome in that area. I like to be able to easily select a font and size,
colors etc. Scripts for triggers, highlights and whatever I don't mind being more manual.

Another tf example, is keybindings/mappings or whatever. Other clients I have seen seperate the keypad from other keys. Keypad PgUp is different
than the PgUp key elsewhere. Similar to Keypad arrow keys and the solo 4 arrow keys on many keyboards. I haven't dug deep enough to find out if tf
can recognize these keys independantly of each other.

Speed seems to be another issue. With tf, I've made a big step in that area by changing my TERM variable (thanks jspectre), but it still isn't quite right.
I can live with it if I'm able to resolve the other issues. Most probably have a solution. I think the jumping cursor problem is more of a "feature" than
something changealbe though.

MUDix didn't seem to have any speed issues, but I wasn't running it in a terminal window. I don't think MUDix is configurable enough though.

In the end, much of it is ease of use with the exception of a couple of issues. I think that covers it. (not to mention the font issues I'm having with
linux in general. even after following many in depth instructions in another thread)

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

UPDATE:
For font reasons, I started Gnome again instead of Fluxbox. Fonts look much better, and speed seems to have improved a tad with tf.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

If anyone is interested...

Just on a whim, I tried setting TERM=vt102. A very big speed improvement.
Probably about as fast as I've seen any client.

lk42pro · Posted: Fri May 03, 2002 3:13 am Post subject:

morrowind came out....for those rpg fans...
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lk42pro · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 3:41 am Post subject: Re: mcl

Jeevz · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject:

So what Muds are everyone playing these days?

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rizzo · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: mcl

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

zmud for linux sure would be nice

i remember seeing a kde mud client able to load .zmud files but i cant find it anymore:\

rizzo · Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 3:59 pm Post subject:

God I couldn't stand zmud. It was always crashing on me. For windows I HIGHLY recommend mudmaster. Actually now that I think about it you could probably get cygwin and use mcl anyway. Wish I had thought of it when I was mudding.

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

zmud worked perfectly for me...never crashed

and scripting for it was easy...had custom stuff for each class etc(was damn useful for alchemists...shitloads of aliases needed)

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20094

gmudix is new. I like it (so far).
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