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Downloads: MudOS libraries

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This is a summary of currently-availableMudOS libs whose installation difficulty level ranges from "easy" to "moderate". The point of this page is to provide a convenient reference to those interested in trying them out. These downloads are libs bundled with the driver (with permission of the authors where required) for your convenience.

Non-MudOS libs have a section below.

Note about licensing: Each of these libs comes with its own licensing information. Do not assume they are public domain, or GPL, or whatever.

Note about intermud: Most of these libs are designed or preconfigured to connect to the yatmim router. Please read the router info and rules if you plan on making use of that communication medium. Also, note this FAQ entry on intermud security.

Dead Souls 2
Comments: Easy to use, polished, and popular.
Advantages: Works very well right out of the box, thoroughly documented. UNIX and Windows version in the same download.
Disadvantages: Uses the complex verb system. Function names are different from older libs.
Download: http://lpmuds.net/files/deadsouls/ds2.4.1.zip
(Bleeding edge "alpha" development versions are available, but they are only for the adventurous. You can look here for them.)

Lima
Comments: Easy to use, polished, and popular.
Advantages: Works well right out of the box. Designed by experts to be extremely advanced.
Disadvantages: Not currently maintained. Not compatible with add_actions. Perhaps too advanced for beginners.
Download: http://lpmuds.net/files/lima-1.0b5+driver.tar.gz
(Note: This lib distro has not been modified by me. You may run into a few snags during installation. The default router is gjs, not yatmim.)

LPUniversity Mudlib
Comments: Not ready for play.
Advantages: Provides a chance to build a lib from the ground up without having to deal much with the driver.
Disadvantages: No longer developed. Fixer-upper.
Download/Homepage: http://lpmuds.net/files/lpuni_a-0610-R7.tar.gz
(Note: This lib distro has not been modified by me. You may run into a few snags during installation.)

Discworld
Comments: Well liked, but rarely used.
Advantages: The grotesquely popular Discworld MUD uses a variation of this lib, so it must have something going for it.
Disadvantages: Few adopters. Limited support.
Download: http://lpmuds.net/files/discworld/dw_fluffos_v1.tar.gz
(Note: this lib and included driver source have been modified to compile and run on modern unix)

TMI-2
Comments: Rarely used, except by old-timers.
Advantages: It's a solid lib, built by competent coders dedicated to excellence.
Disadvantages: It's showing its age. Lacks an advanced parser.
Download: http://lpmuds.net/files/tmi2_mudos_v1.tar.gz
(Note: this lib and included driver source have been modified to compile and run on modern unix)

Skylib
Comments: Seems nice enough.
Advantages: Should feel familiar to TMI-2 types.
Disadvantages: see above
Download/Homepage: http://lpmuds.net/files/skylib_mudos_v1.tar.gz
(Note: this lib and included driver source have been modified to compile and run on modern unix)

Merentha
Comments: Based on the popular Nightmare 3 lib.
Advantages: Has the "Nightmare feel" and robustness without the complications of verbs or weird lfun names.
Disadvantages: Limited intermud, and little available support.
Download/Homepage: http://lpmuds.net/files/merentha_mudos_v1.tar.gz
(Note: this lib and included driver source have been modified to compile and run on modern unix)

Dead Souls 1
Comments: Dead Souls 1.1 is nearly identical to Nightmare IV except the docs are missing.
Advantages: Public domain, so lib licensing is no worry. Simpler than DS2.
Disadvantages: See "Dead Souls 2" above. DS1 may contain some bugs that are fixed in DS2.
Download: http://lpmuds.net/files/deadsouls/ds1.1.tar.gz
(Note: this lib and included driver source have been modified to compile and run on modern unix)

Nightmare 3
Comments: This is an ancestor of Nightmare IV and Dead Souls. Once wildly popular, now quite dated.
Advantages: Its comparative simplicity allows using it as a way of understanding lib work more readily than with a larger, more sophisticated lib.
Disadvantages: Older and more rustic than even TMI-2. There is much to fix. Intermud channels do not work.
Download: http://lpmuds.net/files/nightmare3_mudos_v1.tar.gz
(Note: this lib and included driver source have been modified to compile and run on modern unix)

Lil
Comments: This is a fixed up version of the MudOS "testsuite" lib with MudOS docs added.
Advantages: Clean as a whistle. You can log in and use a few commands, but otherwise it's bare metal so you can code from the ground up.
Disadvantages: This is about as bare bones as it gets without coding 100% from scratch. You really need to know what you're doing. No intermud.
Download: http://lpmuds.net/files/lil_0.2.tar.gz
(Note: this lib and included driver source have been modified to compile and run on modern unix)

External Downloads: Non-MudOS libraries

THIS SECTION IS ALSO INCOMPLETE SO DONT GIMME NO GUFF, STILL

This is a summary of currently-available libs for non-MudOS drivers. These downloads are hosted on external sites, and not LPmuds.net, because I am not involved in their development, or their easyfication, or anything about them at all. If you download them and lose your mind trying to install them, your mental health does not become my responsibility. If the link is dead or does not yield an actual download, feel free to do the research required on your own, without bothering me.

Note about non-MudOS drivers and libs: MudOS development appears largely inactive. The current maintainer, Marius, has not made official releases since 2003, and has given me explicit permission to bundle and distribute libs with MudOS. Therefore, my "lib easy-fication project" involves MudOS and libs for which I can get permission to manhandle to run on it. I have not approached other driver developers yet for similar permission. The reasons are:

LDmud: Lars Düning is the maintainer of LDmud. It is in active development, and I am not interested in trying to inject myself into an already-active development environment.
DGD: Dworkin's Generic Driver is a clean-room re-implementation of LPC. It appears to be beautiful, powerful, and free of LP license restrictions. However, its documentation and my research make it clear to me that it is tightly controlled and incompatible with my freewheeling "let's see if I can get it to work and put it up for download" approach. Therefore, I have kept my hands off it.
CD: An argument can be made that CD is *really* the original LP driver branch, because it is the driver used by Genesis, the original LPmud (which believe it or not is still in operation and by all acocunts quite successfully so). However, the only lib I know of that's available for download that works with the CD driver is the CD mudlib. Since both driver and mudlib are maintained by the folks at Genesis, I see no need to try to put my nose in the business of their distribution.
Others: Amylaar/2.4.5 only has one lib I know of, and it's ably emulated by LD. Anarres has no libs and the developer himself doesn't advise its use. Pike/LPC4 has no public libs I'm aware of.

LDmud ( http://www.bearnip.com/lars/proj/ldmud.html )

OSB http://www.bearnip.com/ftp/mud/osb-lib-030218.tar.gz
Heaven 7 http://lpmuds.net/files/heaven7_4a2.tar.gz
Tublib http://www.tubmud.de/ftp/distributions

DGD ( http://www.dworkin.nl/dgd/ )

Phantasmal http://phantasmal.sourceforge.net/index.html
Melville ftp://ftp.dworkin.nl/pub/dgd/lib/Melville/melville_0.9.1.tar.gz
Gurbalib http://gurba.sytes.net/~erlends/gurba.html

Shattered World ( http://www.shattered.org/ )

SWlib http://sourceforge.net/projects/swlpc

CD ( http://www.genesismud.org/students/index )

CDlib http://www.genesismud.org/svn/mudlib/trunk

(The Original) LPmud (aka 2.4.5 aka 3.x aka Amylaar)

LPmud http://mudbytes.net/index.php?a=files&cid=230

Other downloads

Windows editors:

	The #1 problem in Windows is that the default plaintext 
editor, Notepad, produces text that is not 100% compatible with the
mud. Windows plaintext and UNIX plaintext differ, believe it
or not. If you use notepad for editing mudos.cfg, for example,
your mud is likely to just fail to boot. This is because it
can no longer read the "incorrectly" formatted file. 

	The other big problem with Notepad and Wordpad is that
they often add formatting and characters to text files that
make them very ugly and hard to read from inside the mud.

	The solution is to use a text editor that can save in
UNIX text format. The following URLs point to editors that I
have been told will do a good job of this. I can't vouch for
them, as they are 3rd party apps and I've never tested them, but
I am assured they are very good for this.

Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

WinVi http://www.winvi.de/en/

Notepad2 http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Windows clients:

	I can't imagine using the default Windows telnet client for
long. It is so bereft of features as to be actually worse than the
crappiest UNIX (or even VMS!) clients from 1993...Windows telnet is
worse than the worst from thirteen years ago. 

	There are a ton of great Windows mud clients out there.
Anyway, that's what I hear. Back when I used windows, I used a free
version of Zmud, and sometimes a less preferred Gmud.  Zmud is now
a non-free application, so you have to buy it to use it. However,
they do still allow free distribution of a crappy, super old 
version of the client.


Gmud http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmud.exe

Old Zmud 3 from 1996 (not my prob if it's broken) http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/zmud.zip

UNIX clients:

	The client I use is gmoo 0.5.6. It has its drawbacks, but it
works ok, in general, and I'm used to it. An older version of it is
gMOO 0.4.8, and I've found it's a little easier to compile on some
newer UNIXes, for reasons beyond me. 
	
	Though I'd been reluctant to use it (fear of a CLI
client), the TinyFugue client, aka "tf", is a magnificent piece of
work that is worth becoming familiar with. 

gmoo 0.5.6 http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gmoo-0.5.6-11c.tgz
(Debian fixes applied, plus a bugfix for a prompt problem supplied by Haderach @ Frontiers )

gMOO 0.4.8 http://frontiers.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/gMOO-0.4.8.tar.gz

tf http://tf.tcp.com/