For anyone interested in learning GMCP, I’ve written a tutorial – take a look: GMCPtutorial

Enjoy this nice combination :)

keneanung updated the IRE mapping script and added goto area, among other things. The script was also updated to handle walking through rubble, icons, and received a number of mapping improvements – it now updates the room environment. It also won’t rename rooms when you’re flying or walking on a road anymore. A small, but annoying bit where ‘rf’ wouldn’t find the room if it ended with a dot (from copy/pasting) was fixed as well.

demonnic and Rayth has been busy this week improving Mudlet documentation on the wiki, getting the Lua API function listing into shape. Feel free to join in and help out – every 5mins helps!

chris has published an awesome cMud to Mudlet map importer script – this’ll be handy for those who built up extensive maps in cMud.

JerleMinara published a package that allows Mudlet to connect to Simutronics games – however it requires the final 2.0 release, which is unreleased yet. Stay tuned for when that’ll be available!

A rather notable Mudlet event, the Mudlet-based svo system for Achaea also entered early access this week as well.

Mudlet:
- Free
- Very fast
- Multi-platform
- You can do pretty much anything with it
- Under constant development
- You can make it look really pretty
- Scripting is based on a non-proprietary language (Lua), meaning you can use the acquired knowledge for other things as well
- A helpful community, both on the Mudlet forums and in its Achaean clan
- Really not all that difficult to learn (but that’s hard to generalize. I can’t speak for everyone.)

CMud.
- Costs
- Much slower
- IMHO inherently less pretty
- Still rich in features though
- Is primarily intended to be used with its own scripting language, making the knowledge less applicable for other things, but offering the advantage of being easier to learn if you already knew zMud. I think you can use Lua in it as well though.
- Again: Easy to learn if you know zMud.
- Not all that difficult to learn initially either
- No idea about how helpful the in-game clan is, having never been in it, but it’s still a widely spread client for which you will be able to get plenty of help.
- Better in-client documentation than Mudlet.

Both are decent clients, but personally I don’t know why you’d want to pay for a client that does the same things slower and uglier than a free one. I have some rather complex and big scripts which I couldn’t even have dreamed of running in zMud. Cmud would have made it somewhat more feasible, but some of my scripts (mostly my own curing system and mapper) would still bog it down horribly.

Thanks guys!

The first version of the package system is now available (download for Windows, or the source code is available in git). You can find information about it on the wiki, and provide your feedback over at the forums!

This is the first iteration of it – don’t expect a lot, really – but do provide feedback on how you’d like to see it most useful.

This version also includes the server-side MXP support – please test that out as well and provide feedback!

We won’t release 2.0 though if we don’t have downloads available for Macs, Linux, Windows – so don’t worry, you won’t miss out on the final release.

We would, however, love your help in making our docs be better – no technical experience needed, just writing skills and time. We could use help with moving our manual from this page to the wiki, along with adding tips that new people to Mudlet are confused about to the wiki in the manual. If you got a moment, help out a client you love! (if you do! and even if you don’t, help anyway, it’s free!)

If you’re a new user to Mudlet (let’s say you started using Mudlet from scratch since February), what are some things that confused you at first or still confuse you? Please post in comments, we’d love to improve things!

KaVir’s post along with public-domain code is available from here.

It adds support for TTYPE, NAWS, MSDP, ATCP, MSSP, MSP and MXP, as well as UTF-8 (using CHARSET) and XTerm 256 colors. One mud has already added it, at least three more are in the process of adding it, and with luck we’ll see even more muds using it in the near future.

Note: the release linked is for Windows, but the Mapper works fine on all platforms as Mudlet does.

Note2: the mapper utilizes ATCP and MMP technologies to provide a seamless experience – no mapping is necessary, and the mapper doesn’t get lost. As IRE games are the only ones to use them at the moment, the preview works only for them – but of course in the future, we’ll work on mapping and non-ATCP room detection capabilities. Remember this is an early preview!

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