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- From: bhotvedt@gollum.uio.no (Tor Houghton)
- Subject: Re: LPMud gamedriver for 3.0 mudlib
- Message-ID: <bhotvedt-270892015150@usemac70.uio.no>
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- References: <1992Aug15.201834.2482@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <5227@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <bhotvedt-250892173753@129.240.2.43> <5245@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:51:24 GMT
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- In article <5245@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) wrote:
- >
- > In <bhotvedt-250892173753@129.240.2.43> bhotvedt@usit.uio.no (Tor Houghton) writes:
- >
- > >In article <5227@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) wrote:
- >
- > >Finally someone's porting LPMUD! How will it support multiple connections?
- > >Multiple serial port cards and TCP/IP or just one of them?
- >
- > The main idea is to support a universal socket interface, i.e. any device
- > which supports socket operations can be used to connect to the mud. Since
- > the original reason for porting to the Archimedes was to have a local mud
- > for testing LPC code, the first priority is to get it working in wimp windows
- > on the same machine. Once that is done, anything else will be possible, for
- > instance a well equipped machine directly on the internet might even work
- > well enough for a public mud (16 MB standard memory would be nice). Just don't
- > do anything on the local end that crashes the machine :-( a lot of applications
- > do seem to crash easily from what should be recoverable situations. I have
- > tried 5 terminal programs but not one of them is immune from data abort /
- > instruction fetch abort which is triggered by line noise at the modem.
- > I think it would be nice to support econet and serial port connections also,
- > in addition to ethernet.
- >
- > --
- > Adam David. (adamd@rhi.hi.is)
-
- Sounds like some serious action. Hope everything works through! By the way,
- do you know if there is going to be a port of something like Ultima for the
- Arc?
-
- We could need something like that. Moria is fine, but a bit too much
- hacknslash if you know what i mean.
-
-
- Cheers,
-
- # Tor Houghton
- Please reply through mail to bhotvedt@usit.uio.no
-