Hey all,

I know I can't be the only person with this problem:

I've got 2 computers: one mac and one PC, and I don't want to have different clients to use on both. So I've been looking for supposed "cross-platform" mud clients, so that I can just write one system and be done with it.

I've looked at TinTin++, which I like a lot, except for the fact that the windows version seems to have issues.

-To be specific, I wrote a clotting script that worked fine on my Mac and would only work sporadically on the PC, so it led me to believe there might be compatibility issues.

I looked at TinyFugue, which was kind of the opposite - doesn't work so well on my PC, and I'm not sure how well it would work on the Mac. Plus, it's not very easy to learn.

I've been looking at yTin, which is kind of like a TinTin++ variant, which seems to work pretty well with windows, and claims to support scripting in Perl once you install it.

Anyone have any suggestions on clients that would run well on both Mac and PC? I'd go for the fastest client with the LEAST amount of bells and whistles.

http://lyntin.sf.net, maybe? I've not used it myself, but it should be fairly cross-platform. Written entirely in Python, from what I gather.

Well, I don't know much about tf on the PC, but it works very well on the Mac, and I know there's a few examples on the forums of scripts that people have written, as well as at least one complete system (I think). From the Mac side of the equation the only other possibilities are things in scripting languages like Zarquan suggested.

From the sounds of it, you're probably not into programming, but you could still look into MudBot and Projet L, see if there's a clotting script there. That can be used on any platform and client, since it sits as a proxy between your client and Lusternia, but in order to create your own modules, you need to know C/C++. You might be able to find someone around here who's willing to help you out if you chose to go that route.

It's probably THE best cross platform client....however if you can't code in python, you can't write a system for it.

I switched to it from TF on my nix box, because I could easily code my own GUI for it, which was nice.

You Lyntin people - how do I install it on a Mac? The installation page of the website isn't loading..

EDIT: Also found this, which worried me.

Having not tried to run it under Mac, the same as the developer I can't guarantee it will work, but in theory it should, if you have any problems with it, I can have a tweak around and fix whatever problems you are having, since its just python its just interpreted files for the whole application so really easy to tweak and test, very quickly. I will add you to my MSN when I get home this evening.

And as for installing. Get Python (either compile from source for latest version or get the slightly older MacPython binary) install that. Then once you have the lyntin source downloaded and extracted just do

python setup.py install

and this is taken from the latest Lyntin README

was just looking through the recent lyntin-devl mailing list and in the last 3 days someone has submitted some code to fix the tkui under Mac OSX so I guess the answer is yes you can get it to work.