Br0kEs MUD Client.

GNOME mud client designed to be fast, friendly, and highly configurable. For more info, read 'PROPOSAL'...

started late aug5 '98

INSTALLATION

basic configure/make setup. Installed the binary to /usr/local/bin/bmud and the gnome desktop info to /usr/share/gnome/apps/Games/bmud.desktop. Don't even gotta restart panel, it SHOULD just automagically appear in the 'Games' section...

./configure make make install

TODO

DONE-ISH 1 aliasing, I said tt++ in the proposal, but I'm thinking more like ircII now DONE-ISH 2 color and font selection dialog 3 connect wizard that'll store IP, port, and login info 4 automapper that can flag areas and have a 'quick goto' thing 5 logging? DONE 6 fix the damn colors, I ripped the ansi shit form amcl and it's fcked up 7 make the 'stat' box (lower left) auto-resizing 8 make the main window start clearing its buffer, maybe only keep the last 200? lines? definitly has to be an option tho? shrug* DONE 9 fix the auto-scroll mechanism so if something happens when you're scrolled up it doesn't scroll all the way back down 10 speed up the display, apperantly this is important as proven by zmud? 11 make an equipment tree box (that's automatically updated, and has some dnd 12 make a character view box that shows 'score' and 'level' stuff and auto updates itself as stuff changes 13 bugfixes. It feels real robust right now (aug 8 morning) but I KNOW there's bugs in it that needs to be stomped

HOW TO REPORT A BUG

email [email protected] or the mailing list do NOT report bugs like "I click this and it doesn't work" if it's in todo do NOT bitch and moan if it crashes and breaks something. It's alpha grade. do NOT email me saying "it sucks", if you think it sucks, tell me WHY :) do NOT ask if I will port to windows, or I'll be forced to bitchslap you so hard your pimpdaddy, 'billy G', bruises so bad he has to go to the hospital

HOW TO HELP OUT

code patches welcome, minor fixes or large peices. Please send patches in unified diff format

make distclean cd .. mv bmud-0.x bmud-0.x-neatoshiznitz tar zxvf bmud-0.x.tar.gz diff -urNb bmud-0.x bmud-0.x-neatoshiznitz > bmud-0.x-neatoshiznits.patch

please go thru the files and clip out the unnecessary stuff, uhhhhhh, diff tends to put in a lot of trash from like config stuff and stuff :/

art for icons and stuff

ideas/designs

email [email protected] with thoughts, ideas, patch files, updated source, money, beer, pizza, hardware...

CONTRIBUTIONS

[Connect wizard]

The connection wizard is pretty easy. Just type in the number of the server in the gtk_entry.

There's a DEFINE in bmud.h where you specify the filename where to look for servers. The format of the list should be "host port", I have included an examplelist called mudservers (dont expect all of them to work, they're fictional :)).

One thing that I have noticed is that if you have many servers in your list you get a really big Wizard window, to fix that I'll add a scrollbar.

Erik Thyren

(see AUTHORS for contributions without README's)