Terminal Program

[Sprague]

I read in an old post that somebody wanted to purchase the code for MegaMUD so that development on GreaterMUD could go in new directions. If this is still the case, a few developers could relatively easily recreate much of what's going on in MegaMUD.

I have toyed around with a few things myself, if anybody else is interested in getting together to work on this project, and especially if there's interest from the rest of the community, please respond to this thread.

I'm a software professional currently developing enterprise applications and web site for a private firm. My preferred platform is .NET. My working prototype is using XNA libraries to render the a terminal screen inside a WPF application. The prototype is built from the ground up - VT100 libraries are my own, telnet libraries are my own - nothing third-part licensed.

[Gardner Denver]

.NET FTW! 

[kalus]

How far along did Merlin get with GigaMud? Would he be willing to give up the source?

Can we please please pelase open source anything that gets done on SourceForge??

[Darmius]

I got about as far as Sprague.  I have a terminal that is winforms and GDI.  It supports basic ansi escape sequences and coloring, enough for mmud.   There are some issues with GDI and the extended ascii characters sets, the lower 32 characters don't work/render properly.  I never got around to working on the string parsers. 

I wouldn't mind working on a project.  Anyone can have my source if they want, it's nothing to special.  Open source is definitely the way to go for this though.

[Gardner Denver]

How far along did Merlin get with GigaMud? Would he be willing to give up the source?

Can we please please pelase open source anything that gets done on SourceForge??

Merlin was working on smart spellcasting as of the last update I got from him.