May 1999

• Object server. Quzah [softhome]
• Censorship & Its Impact On World Immersion J C Lawrence
• OT: Ethics v Law Greg Munt
• Virtual v Artificial Worlds Greg Munt
• • Virtual v Artificial Worlds Matthew Mihaly
• Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Wes Connell
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? David Bennett
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Koster, Raph
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Greg Munt
  • Custom Server Roll Call? The Arrow
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Alex Stewart
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Nathan F Yospe
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
          • • Custom Server Roll Call? Matthew Mihaly
            • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
            • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
            • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Greg Munt
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Matthew Mihaly
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? J C Lawrence
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Ling
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Niklas Elmqvist
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
      • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
        • • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
          • • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • Custom Server Roll Call? J C Lawrence
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jo Dillon
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        • • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Adam Wiggins
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Matthew Mihaly
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? claw@kanga.nu
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Turner
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Ling
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jay Carlson
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
      • Custom Server Roll Call? Ling
• Interesting dilemma Peck, Matthew x96724c1
• • Interesting dilemma Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • Interesting dilemma Quzah [softhome]
  • Interesting dilemma Brandon A Downey
  • Interesting dilemma Shawn Halpenny
  • • Interesting dilemma Matthew Mihaly
  • Interesting dilemma Benjamin D. Wiechel
  • Interesting dilemma Koster, Raph
  • Interesting dilemma Wes Connell
  • Interesting dilemma Mattias Lönnqvist
  • Interesting dilemma Mik Clarke
  • Interesting dilemma Joel Kelso
  • Interesting dilemma Ronan Farrell
• Harvey's Rules of Immship John Hopson
• Confiscating items (Interesting dilemma) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• AW: Interesting dilemma Hofbauer Heinz
• Virtual Property J C Lawrence
• • Virtual Property Koster, Raph
  • • Virtual Property Jon A. Lambert
• Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Ben Greear
• • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Mik Clarke
  • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Ben Greear
    • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? J C Lawrence
      • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Ben Greear
        • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Sunny Gulati
  • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Jon A. Lambert
• Discussion of large server IO handling desing J C Lawrence
• Planes of existance Quzah [softhome]
• • Planes of existance Greg Munt
  • • Planes of existance Quzah [softhome]
    • Planes of existance Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • • Planes of existance Ben Greear
      • • Planes of existance Caliban Tiresias Darklock
      • Planes of existance Greg Munt
      • • Planes of existance T. Alexander Popiel
        • • Planes of existance Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • Planes of existance Matthew Mihaly
• Dynamically changing room descriptions Ronan Farrell
• • Dynamically changing room descriptions Mik Clarke
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ben Greear
  • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Koster, Raph
    • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Richard Bartle
      • Dynamically changing room descriptions Matthew Mihaly
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Travis Casey
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Travis Casey
  • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • Dynamically changing room descriptions Jon A. Lambert
    • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      • Dynamically changing room descriptions Eli Stevens {KiZurich/GreySylk}
      • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Jon A. Lambert
    • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ling
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Christopher Allen
• old fight system I toyed with Koster, Raph
• APE 0.2.1 J C Lawrence
• • APE 0.2.1 Marc Hernandez
  • • APE 0.2.1 claw@kanga.nu
• OT: robots, agents and emotions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • OT: robots, agents and emotions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Time Discontinuous MUD Ling
• Semi-OT: International intellectual property right (was: Custom Server Roll Call?) Custom Server Roll Call?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Semi-OT: International intellectual property rights Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Marc Hernandez' Server Greg Munt
• • Marc Hernandez' Server Jay Carlson
  • • Marc Hernandez' Server Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • Marc Hernandez' Server Travis S. Casey
    • Marc Hernandez' Server Adam Wiggins
  • Marc Hernandez' Server Marc Hernandez
  • Marc Hernandez' Server qitelremel@hotmail.com
• Scry 1.9.1 (Feature Freeze) released. Ben Greear
• The distinction between magic spells and magic abilities Greg Munt
• • The distinction between magic spells and magic abilities Matthew Mihaly
• Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
• • Multi-threaded mud server. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
    • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jo Dillon
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Travis S. Casey
        • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
        • Multi-threaded mud server. Chris Gray
      • Multi-threaded mud server. Chris Gray
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
      • Multi-threaded mud server. Mik Clarke
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Chris Gray
        • • Multi-threaded mud server. Mik Clarke
      • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
        • • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
          • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
    • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
    • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
      • Multi-threaded mud server. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Mark Gritter
        • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
      • Multi-threaded mud server. Travis S. Casey
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
    • Multi-threaded mud server. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  • Multi-threaded mud server. David Bennett
  • • Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
    • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
      • Multi-threaded mud server. Travis Casey
• Macro languages Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  On 03:00 AM 5/18/99 +0200, I personally witnessed Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  jumping up to say:
  >
  >I don't really think one need to make such macro programming very clever. If
  >aiming for the average user, then one probably should avoid difficult
  >conditional structures and such. Ok, that would be another one of the many
  >I-have-always-wanted-to-make-this projects which I will never do.
  
  This is the macro language Ultimate Universe uses. I'm including it
  primarily as food for consideration in terms of what users demand in a
  macro language; the entire TML series was created wholly in response to
  player requests. This is one of the reasons it's such a mess... it was
  accreted rather than designed. ;)
  
  This may be a little hard to catch on to, since most of you aren't familiar
  with the UU commands and a full coverage of them is beyond the scope of
  this post. There is a need to know that a ship carries several "standard"
  items, and then several "specialty" items -- the latter purchased from
  ports around the universe which carry a total of a little more than 500
  different types of items. The specialty items are generally called
  "devices". The major commands I'll use in these examples are "scan",
  "move", and "port". Scan allows you to look at an adjacent sector to see
  what's in it; move takes you to that sector; and port allows you to dock at
  a spaceport in order to buy and sell commodities in much the same way most
  MUDs make you run around selling the weapons you pick up.
  
  The basic idea is reasonably simple; you stick a bunch of commands
  together, using a semicolon to indicate the border between commands. So for
  example, M;125;P would mean (M)ove to sector (125) and then (P)ort. There
  are about two hundred single-letter context-sensitive commands. So, for
  example, C;S (computer; scan) was not the same as S (scan). The former can
  scan any unoccupied sector, while the latter can only scan a sector
  physically connected to your current location. To make matters worse, C-
  turns color off and C+ turns it on -- complicating the command parsing
  sequence. To toggle color, you would use C;C -- computer, color. Annoying,
  eh? ;)
  
  ALL prompts are handled straight out of the command sequence. So when
  entering W gives you a menu of three choices, you can enter your choice
  immediately after that -- W;1 -- and when that offers you a second and
  third choice, you enter those likewise. The semicolon is really shorthand
  for "enter".
  
  Following this, we have a great number of substitutions, the most common being:
  
  %1 Request Input from Captain %2 = Sector you were last in.
  
  So if your macro was M;%1;P you would (M)ove to a sector which you're
  prompted for and then (P)ort. Since you will often find two ports selling
  reciprocal items, each selling something the other is buying, you could use
  M;%2;P over and over again to go back and forth between them. These are
  supplemented by:
  
  %3 = Current Sector %4 = last input to %1 or %8.
  
  So if you were to send a radio message that said "I'm in sector %3" and you
  were in sector 12, the %3 would be replaced. (There was once a challenge in
  the documentation to find a meaningful use for this. I found one around
  1994-95, but it uses some later features which I haven't gotten into yet.)
  Since it's common to use a prompted value repeatedly, %4 allows you to use
  it again later. So to scan a sector and then move to it, you would use
  S;%1;M;%4 -- not very useful, really.
  
  %5 = %1 plus one %6 = Counter value.
  
  The %5 allows sequential scans. S;%5 will increment your last %1 value, so
  using it repeatedly keeps raising the value of the %1 value.
  
  The counter is a hideous special case. It allows you to set up
  conditionals, and to do complex add/subtract operations:
  
  %# Displays Counter Value on Command Line
  %#x Set counter to x
  %#-x Subtract x from Counter
  %#+x add x to Counter
  %#>x Do if counter is greater than x
  %#<x Do if counter is less than x
  %#=x Do if counter equals x
  
  %: terminate branch (end if block)
  %^ Else statement
  %! Terminate macro immediately
  
  With these, you could do terrible hard-to-read things like
  %6>10;S;%6;%^;M;%6;%:;%#-10 -- if the counter is more than ten, scan the
  sector, else move to the sector, and always subtract ten from the counter.
  
  Note also that for %#<=5;X you had to use %#>5;%^;X because there was no <=
  operator. And it gets worse.
  
  %-devnum if device exists skip to %:
  %+devnum if device does not exist skip to %:
  
  Using these, you can determine what exists in your inventory. You can test
  for any device by number. So you can say, for example,
  %-125;W;1;10;1;%:;M;10; which would use a (W)arp device of type (1) to make
  a warp to sector (10) in warp slot (1) if you didn't have device 125 (the
  autopilot). Following this, you move to sector 10 -- if you have the
  autopilot, you can get there without making a warp first, but if you don't
  you just made one.
  
  The major bug in this is that the command is documented and *operates* in
  complete ignorance of the %^ code. So changing this to
  %-125;W;1;10;1;%^;[any commands];%:;M;10; will NEVER EXECUTE the commands
  in the 'else' block.
  
  %7 Value of Last Aware %8 Alternative to %1.
  
  "Aware" devices hold the value of various things on your ship. For example,
  you might have the "Attack Drone Aware" device, which keeps track of the
  number of attack drones on your ship. In yet another bad method, you would
  use the device, and then %7 would include the number of attack drones on
  the ship. Until you used a different "Aware" device... which would change
  the meaning of your macros. Bad. ;)
  
  %8 was never documented clearly enough for my taste. There is one
  fundamental difference in how it works; %1 takes input and sticks it in the
  place of the code. %8 just takes input. So while M;%1 expands to
  M;(whatever you type at the prompt), M;%8 expands to M; and does nothing at
  all with the value you just typed. So %1 could be functionally replaced
  with %8;%4 if you were weird. This was useful to prompt for input at the
  front of the macro, then execute a whole bunch of commands which would use
  your input much later.
  
  %? ? = Goto Macro A-Z
  
  This caused some confusion. It means "goto" in the computer sense: it never
  comes back. This meant loops were pretty braindead; you could do
  %#<2500;M;%6;%#+1;%N in macro N to loop through 2500 sectors starting at
  the current counter value. However, if you wanted to start at sector 1, you
  had to do this:
  
  Macro A - %#1;%B
  Macro B - %#<2500;M;%6;%#+1;%B
  
  This functionality was later supplemented by
  
  %?* Gosub Macro ? %* Return from Last Gosub
  %*- Clear Last Gosub tag %** Clear ALL Gosub Tags
  . Global Comment
  
  These were included only in the final release (and, I might note, were my
  idea -- although I didn't like the way they got implemented), so weren't
  very heavily tested. Probably very buggy. Definitely messy. So for example,
  %A* would execute macro A until it came to %* or %*- which would either
  return or wipe out the possibility of return, respectively. You could,
  obviously, do several gosubs... but the stack was of limited size, thus the
  %*- option.
  
  . Global Comment
  
  No one ever used this to my knowledge. It seems sort of stupid.
  
  %) Display On %( Display Off
  
  Spam control, and speed enhancement since obviously your commands will run
  a bit faster if the computer doesn't have to send you output. Usable ONLY
  IN MACROS; whenever you're asked for input -- i.e. the input buffer is
  empty -- the display is turned on. Nice safety net. Another good way to use
  %8; you stick %8 up front, take input, and then %( for the rest of the
  macro. When the macro ends, the display is turned back on.
  
  %), incidentally, was rarely used. Sometimes people would do something like
  %#<%5;%);%#;%(;%#+100;%: in place of %5 during the middle of a long loop;
  this would turn the display on long enough to display the counter every 100
  times through the loop.
  
  As you can see from the above, this thing *looks* several orders of
  magnitude worse than MUSHcode. ;)
  
  I'm going to redesign in the next version, not this one. Right now, I want
  everything to be perfectly compatible with the older versions for ease of
  migration. I'll fix things in v3; 2.5 is just a straight port.
  
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• LOTR and Mud [was: Marc Hernandez' Server] Marc Hernandez
• Noise: boys will be boys (was Multi-threaded mud server.) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • Noise: boys will be boys (was Multi-t hreaded mud server.) Koster, Raph
  • Noise: boys will be boys (was Multi-threaded mud server.) Chris Gray
• Kanga.Nu has finally moved... claw@kanga.nu
• Java & MUD servers Laurent Bossavit
• ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Ben Greear
• • ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Chris Gray
  • • ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Ben Greear
  • ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Jon A. Lambert
• [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Ben Greear
• • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). bruce@puremagic.com
  • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Greg Miller
  • • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Ben Greear
    • • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Greg Miller
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