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shadowfyr · 09-14-2010, 05:04 AM

Hmm. Pueblo, perhaps? Little known client, with the same concept that MXP had, *but* it intended to extend the client using standard HTML, where Zugg went a bit different. There are specialty HTML like commands added to it to support VRML, events, etc. Even a set up for "voice" channels, to well, use a mic to hear other players, apparently. It is now a Sourceforge project.

But, most mud developers "tend" to be purists, and some older systems, that where once introduced, but not often used, due to the small number of PCs that supported, for example, 256 custom colors, at the time, they got lost along the way. Also, with muds, some things fell aside, like say zmodem, which was a file transfer protocol, ironically, with the side effect being the use of often non-resumable, easy to misconfigure, not always reliable, and insufficiently self checking, FTP... One would have thought that, given the unreliability of networks when FTP was made, someone would have thought of those things, but...

09-14-2010, 05:04 AM	#78
shadowfyr Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 310	Re: The mud client poll Hmm. Pueblo, perhaps? Little known client, with the same concept that MXP had, but it intended to extend the client using standard HTML, where Zugg went a bit different. There are specialty HTML like commands added to it to support VRML, events, etc. Even a set up for "voice" channels, to well, use a mic to hear other players, apparently. It is now a Sourceforge project. But, most mud developers "tend" to be purists, and some older systems, that where once introduced, but not often used, due to the small number of PCs that supported, for example, 256 custom colors, at the time, they got lost along the way. Also, with muds, some things fell aside, like say zmodem, which was a file transfer protocol, ironically, with the side effect being the use of often non-resumable, easy to misconfigure, not always reliable, and insufficiently self checking, FTP... One would have thought that, given the unreliability of networks when FTP was made, someone would have thought of those things, but...