bluemud

using and rewriting the codebase and extending the ideas developed at varium.com

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research:

Herein are a series of links to articles, musings, and RFCs and such on things we've used or mulled about in bluemud. This page acts as a nexus for information for us. We'll change it as we centralize more resources we keep using.

articles

• mud command parsers (Scatter)
• other articles (Scatter)
• article on mud balance (SneezyMUD)
• POO
• Imaginary Realities mud magazine

RFCs

• Nice quickie on telnet control options
• rfc 854 -- Telnet protocol specification
• rfc 855 -- Telnet option specifications
• rfc 857 -- Telnet ECHO option
• rfc 858 -- Telnet Suppress go ahead option
• rfc 1184 -- Telnet Linemode option
• RFC 1925 - a must read

emulation, terminals, and ansi stuff

• ansi codes (will's listing)
• ascii codes (will's listing)
• Ansi codes
• VT100 codes
• Video terminal information
• ESR's termcap/terminfo resources page
• XTerm stuff
• terminal emulators
• Video Terminals--The DECVT100 and successors

other helpful/interesting things

• dmoz: Games-->Internet-->MUDs-->Servers
• Erwin Andreasen's New Muds listing
• Lyntin - Mud client written in Python
• LALR and Lexical analyzer tools
• StructuredText explanation
• Another StructuredText explanation with really good examples

software we're using

• Java 2 SDK (version 1.3.1) for compiling and running the Java code
• Jython (version 2.1 alpha 3) the Java-based Python interpreter
• Ant (version 1.4.1) from the Jakarta project for dependency building
• Happydoc (version 2.0) for generating Python ool documentation
• AFT (version 5.077) for formatting and generating our architecture documentation