Well, firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. Am looking forward to meeting/interacting with all you guys.

Secondly, being new and all, I could really use some help if possible.
Does anybody use TF? Basically, would somebody be prepared to offer a -basic- healing system for said client? I say basic as I obviously want my own system. I am just needing something comprehensive enough to make life a little easier and to keep me alive while learning/bashing.

I am more than capable with the client, it is just not knowing the game that is obviously a hurdle I have yet to jump.

Many thanks if anybody can help with this.

In anticipation......

Well I'm in the same boat as you, except I've been around for awhile. I just switched to Gentoo awhile ago, and haven't even gotten TF to work graphically yet because of my incomptence. I usually just try to run Mushclient through Wine, which fails sometimes. Perhaps we could work together to get my experience in the game, coupled with your experience in tinyfugue. Let me know. I'm staying focused on Mushclient for now, as it is what I'm learning to program to, but I'd be more than happy to help you out.

I use tf as my main client all the time. I'm still trying to develop my system, mainly some kind of queue. If you'd like to work on it together then that could be fun (though be warned I am a newb to coding)

Seraphi - Getting TF to work 'graphically' is just not going to happen. It is 100% command line, so if you attempting to emerge a GUI, you will be rather disappointed, sadly.

Exactly what problems are you having emerging TF? It should compile so simply. I did not have a single problem.

Maybe if you posted your make.conf and the errors from the emerge log, I can see what I can do.

So far as working together with others goes, I would be delighted. TF is a pleasure to work with. Is -lightning- fast and so, so versatile.

Running MUSH on Wine? Ouch! Just ouch, that is so harsh. You are aware there are several other GUI based clients for *nix about, right? Gnome-MUD, KMuddy are two that come to mind straight away.

Shou - Sure, again, I would be delighted. At what stage have you gotten yourself to? I will assume you know your way around a shell here, so if that is the case, you will find TF so easy to use.
Just feel free to post any problems you encounter and I will do my best to help you work them out.

Be well and looking forward to working with you both and anybody else who might be interested in Tinyfugue.

Right now I'm only using basic triggers that have -E(variable) in order to make use of herb/salve/potion balance. I've thought of a few ways to make a queue but they all seem so cumbersome. That's pretty much the biggest obstacle for me right now.

I also suggest perhaps looking through this thread:

http://forums.lusternia.com/index.php?showtopic=841


Has some helpful stuff.

I suspect Seraphi's troubles with MUSHclient under WINE come from trying to use VBS for coding. Using Lua is much more compatible, but you still might have to find yourself a good distribution of WINE that has all of what you need implemented.

That was actually before I used a system at all, let alone scripting... it was a runtime error... it couldn't work the GUI very well, and while it ran, I couldn't select any options or click anything, just type.

Just a bad version of WINE then, I guess. I hear that it matters quite a lot which version you get and which distribution of Linux it runs on.

Wine is 100% unreliable. Each new version adds more compatible software and breaks as many compatible software... trying to implement the Windows API is madness, something not even Microsoft succeeds at.

You're lucky guys. Just found Bwbettin's basic TF system(without healing) in my home dir. It's a bit outdated, but is a very good reference for how to script in TF.

I will upload it sometime tomorrow, so stay tuned.

Oooh, definetly looking forward to this one. I am frankly amazed at just how complicated the PvP is on this MUD. I have never come across anything like it!
The different balances on x, y and z have had me both chuckling and scratching my head. Certainly looking forward to working through it all, mind.

well... i wish there is a client that has Lua Scripting.. well.. i like Lua Scripting anyway. unless i could ask MushClient Programmer to make a client for Linux. heh... i doubt it though...

Don't hold me to this, as I have not tried this myself, but I have heard from other people that MUSH will run on WINE with Lua working. Seems that Lua is -all- you can use, though. Might want to give it a shot, you never know.

MUSHclient has a parameter (/wine) to make it behave differently on WINE, but you'll still have problems with some WINE distributions. Using Lua for scripting should improve the stability. I'm speaking purely hypothetically, however, as I use Windows myself.

You could always use ILua, as I do myself. It compiles and runs just fine under Linux. The one problem I've had with it on Linux so far is that the addon library lrexlib, for regexp, doesn't want to load properly. I've be told that it's an easy fix away but I haven't had time to check it out yet.

That will depend on your distro there. I run Gentoo, so anybody on that would have to just:



For Debian,



Any other distro's dont ask, as I have no clue. Sure that useless bit of info will help somebody though.

Yes. But that only installs the regexp library, not the LUA binding for the regexp library - lrexlib.

Sorry it took me so long to reply to this thread, seem to have no end of things to do as of late.

OK!

Debian :


For the devs :

If the bindings are not in that package, all I -can- tell you is that the C++ bindings are in package libpcrecpp0 so it would likely be something similar. Let me know if you dont get anywhere with this as I have an old Debian box lying around here somewhere.

And for the sake of continuity, the Gentooified version :


Hope that answers your question.

HTH

Edit: In the case you are running Debian, you can just drop root, run aptitude, hit '/' and type your search string, you know.
Gentoo would be: # emerge -s lua.

I played around with Lyntin before, and I'm working on it again now that I'm back to running Ubuntu. Great way to practice my python coding, and I'm basically learning how to write a mud client from scratch at the same time.

What is it with people liking Ubuntu? Sorry, but it is just horrible. All personal opinions of course, though coming from somebody who has been using GNU/Linux since its conception, I am sure that will count for something.

For the more technically minded amongst us, http://www.gentoo.org

That is a -real- source metadistribution. Yes, you have to manually install the OS, configure your own kernel, compile -everything- but trust me it is good.
Startup time on my 1.5ghz 256mb RAM box is just 8 seconds. 11 seconds to GDM.

/rant from the nix nerd