jonmarkgo
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Comment · 1 year ago
That works! Just post in #general and I'll find you :)
Comment · 1 year ago
99% sure I used your copyover snippet when we first added it to our MUD like 25 years ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks! We'll fix that broken link. Fwiw I also used to play SW Combine too. I think their irc server was where I first learned about MUDs.
Kind of funny how many people from LotJMUD or SWC I've met in the real world who work in tech now
Comment · 1 year ago
HuffPo wrote a piece about us like a decade ago, and I've been meaning to write more about the technical evolution of the game..just haven't gotten around to it. Certainly interested in collaborating on something
Comment · 1 year ago
MUDs were how I really learned to code (in C) and how I fell in love with programming and online communities, almost 25 years ago now.
Comment · 1 year ago
Posted earlier in the thread!
Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/
It originated (more than 20 years ago) as a fork of SWReality, which is itself a fork of SMAUG, which comes from DIKU, and so on and so on.
We (myself and a lot of other awesome volunteer coders over the years) have made some pretty major modifications to the codebase. It all runs on PostgreSQL now (instead of flat text files with a custom parser), it has a built-in Lua scripting interpreter for extensions and in-game interactions, it has deep integrations to our Discord community, it has sidecar web services, and much much more...
Comment · 1 year ago
I actually run a MUD that stills uses this copyover method (primarily C code) for major code changes and migrations. We have about 100 players online at any given time! We've actually built in some more modern automatic copyover triggers and hooks related to recovering from crashes, capturing backtraces, performing database migrations, and sending/receiving systemd signals (among a lot of other modernization upgrades).
Comment · 3 years ago
This is very cool! I have a MUD (that still has a fairly active playerbase) written in straight-up C. Been working on it 20+ years now, and always had some curiosity about rewriting it.
Comment · 5 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Aww thanks. We're hoping it'll be helpful - so far students seem pretty stoked about it