Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi William, not specifically being a big MOO/mud coder I really can't say for certain that MOO will or will not do all that you desire. I can say it will certainly be much better than trying to write a mud/MOO server from scratch as I have already outlined before. Tell you what if you want to

[Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread William L. Houts
Hi Thomas, I'm directing this at you, but the questionand its answer might be useful to others on the list, so I'm posting it here. My question is simply this...I'm very interested in becoming a coder. Specifically, I have notions of building a blind friendly MUD from scratch. I have ideas

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi, MOO's have there own programming language called MOO. It's not very difficult to learn. I've been coding in MOO for about 4 months, and don't find it too hard. A good website with a mailing list, tutorials, etc is at www.moo-cows.com. Now, MOO is the traditional way of starting a MOO (with a

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread William L. Houts
6:46 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward Hi, MOO's have there own programming language called MOO. It's not very difficult to learn. I've been coding in MOO for about 4 months, and don't find it too hard. A good website with a mailing list, tutorials, etc is at www.moo-cows.com

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bill, Yeah, if you don't want to build your own dedicated mud server from scratch like i described earlier the MOO language might be a better way to go. When you said from scratch I thought you meant building a mud server from the ground up which is what I described. Grin. If you are just

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread William L. Houts
- From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward Hi Bill, Yeah, if you don't want to build your own dedicated mud server from scratch like i described earlier the MOO

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi, I see no reason whatsoever why you shouldn't go that route, to use MOO code instead of building your own server. Building it would require lots of coding, probably in C++. Basically, MOO has it's on server (LambdaMoo or GammaMoo) Server and databases. There are several databases to use. I

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi, Sorry for another post, I just checked out Moo Cow Penguin, and it doesn't seem they offer Free Hosting right off there home page. I believe they have moved or something to: http://www.yourmud.net/freehosting.php. There are also different ones at:

Re: [Audyssey] Question for Thomas Ward

2009-01-31 Thread William L. Houts
] Question for Thomas Ward Hi, Sorry for another post, I just checked out Moo Cow Penguin, and it doesn't seem they offer Free Hosting right off there home page. I believe they have moved or something to: http://www.yourmud.net/freehosting.php. There are also different ones at: https