From: beeman@cats.ucsc.edu (Adam Beeman)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.lp
Subject: Re: MudOS 0.9.0 Fact Sheet
Date: 16 Nov 1992 00:30:55 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
Summary: mudlib on its way
Keywords: MudOS LPmud 0.9


In article <BxqxGq.3EF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nafpliot@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Nicholas Nafpliotis) writes:
>
>Thanks again MudOS people.
>
>Nick Nafpliotis
>
>By the way.  Anyone have a mudlib for this yet?  *grin*

Ahh, a very good question you ask.  You probably noticed a little thingy
included with the driver, that was enough to log into, but not a heck of
a lot more.  There *is* a project under way, if not several of them.
Namely, I speak of the TMI-2 mudlib, which has been a not altogether 
smooth experience of writing, since everyone and his mother seems to want
to do his/her own project instead of cooperate on a bigger one.  If things
go well, I'll be making a beta copy available by late late saturday night,
and then we can find out just how pathetic the whole package really is and
make the necessary changes before releasing anything we'd recommend you
use.

So, the TMI-2 mudlib is moving along... I think there's some really killer
features included, such as virtual rooms, intermud mail/tell/finger,
n-dimensional nested properties, a pub, a shop, money, full manpages for
all efuns and driver applies, customizable login prompt/screen, objects
with variable security (if you want it), a newsreader (a little buggy still),
bulletin boards, monsters, channels, spells.... I must be forgetting a few
other things.  Depending on how much progress we make in this next
week, you may or may not get my new, dynamic groups object that will 
allow anyone to create or maintain a group and yet do it in a secure fashion
suitable for guilds, wiz ranks/domains, mailing lists, and anything else
that you might want.

Of course, there's no doubt some essentials missing somewhere, once we make
a beta release you will all come screaming back to us that it doesn't work.
If you're a serious LPC coder and have something insanely cool that you
think this mudlib should have, let us know.

Note that TMI-2 is very unlike TMI in some ways, namely that right now
we aren't even pretending to have the time to teach people how to use
ed and update a file and stuff.  It could happen, at some point, and I hate
to sound like some sort of elitist, but please don't log in and pester us 
for a directory like everyone did on TMI, we're not building areas for
players and we're not gifted with tons of disk space for every newbie wizard
to come and play in... maybe someday we will be... but not now.

Experienced coders are encouraged to log in if you're thinking of lending
a hand with the next-generation distribution mudlib.  We're currently
coding away on our new site, which seems to be working out pretty nicely.

-Buddha@TMI-2
 tmi.iastate.edu 5555
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