The MUD client deathmatch

[kelvin]

Currently on version tracker there are 5 mac mud clients (http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m?productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_Filter=MacOSX&search=mud+client): hydraMUD (me), Cantrip, Mudoke, LegendWeaverX, and Savitar (non-os X native).

As the new comer to the arena, I've found myself a little intimidated by their support and fan base. Even though I've only been working since October 2002 though I feel I've made great strides to surpass these other clients; whom have been under development for years+.

So I ask, if there are any MUD/MUVE players here, please try hydraMUD; and if you think it has merit, post your opinions on version tracker (http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=16658&db=mac). I've worked hard to make it faster than any other client available. I just want to know that my efforts are not in vain.

Currently hydraMUD is in alpha v0.4.6. It is currently the smallest, fastest MUD client available for Mac OS X. (don't believe me? try it yourself) It's even faster than terminal telnet in my opinion. I've put in about 60 man-hours of work on it and have written well over 3500 lines of Obj-C. It features embedded Perl text parsing and the smartest url parser available (custom by me).

here's the page for it:
hydraMUD (http://www.variableaspect.com/experiments/hydraMUD)

cheers,

[Kjurtyl]

Crashed on start-up, 10.1.5, G3 Imac...

Got a crash log if you'd like.

- Kjurtyl.

[Bachus]

Works fine for me in X.2.3. I only played with it for a few minutes (I no longer actively MUD), but it seemed pretty dang fast. At the very least new text scrolled amazingly fast. Why is the main window split into 2 separate windows? I couldn't figure that out.

I've been using Savitar for years (1.2.4 was just released, and it does run in X) and have always loved it, but this seems like a good base for a new client.

Remind me some time and I'll regale you with my stories of how I used to MUD with NCSA Telnet with no color and broken newlines. :D

[furballphat]

When I tried to connect to pheonix.betterbox.net 6716 it said,

Trying 209.83.132.90...
Connected to: bb13.betterbox.net.

No text was displayed in the main window and it disconnected after a while. No such problems with the default MUD.

pheonix works fine with telnet.

[kelvin]

I think hydraMUD requires X.2 because of the new string handling functions in Cocoa. I haven't put in code to check the system version yet. I'll work on that today.

[edit: I've fixed the issue with phoenix. hydraMUD now runs fine there]

[akisha]

Whoa! Really nice! Works fine for me in 10.2.1 (wish it was Carbon, though :()