Spawns and How You Use Them
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@Coin said in Spawns and How You Use Them:
I'd love to have access to Atlantis, but I don't have a Mac. Maybe a version for Windows? No? Okay.
This too.
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I, too, do not use Mac. I am going to assume that, like most Mac developers that I've met, that you eschew all other platforms and therefore won't be creating Atlantis to be cross-platform at all? It looks like a great client, and there are hints on the website that make me wonder if it will allow me to build/script/extend things in the client itself to do coder-y things.
I just won't buy a Mac.
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@Rook nah, I use Windows, Linux, and OSX interchangeably. I wrote Atlantis because I happened to be stuck on a Mac almost exclusively for a while when my PC was broken, and sorely missed SimpleMU. When I was unable to convince Kath to port it, I started writing my own.
However, writing a cross platform client that does all of what I want to do with Atlantis is something of a pain; what I want to do is simply easier on OSX, even with the clean rewrite for A2. Sorry.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
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Oh, it's okay. Do yo' thang! I've always wondered at, tinkered with, the idea of building my own "coder's MU client" which was not just a MU client but a coding editor, all built together.
Pipe dream, believe me. I have enough on my plate. But hey, one can dream.
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If anyone knows how to make spawns with MUSHClient, a step-by-step guide would be super helpful.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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I keep my ancient Macbook around specifically to run Atlantis. Truly, it's the best MU* client available today.
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@Cupcake said in Spawns and How You Use Them:
If anyone knows how to make spawns with MUSHClient, a step-by-step guide would be super helpful.
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@Sparks said in Spawns and How You Use Them:
@Rook nah, I use Windows, Linux, and OSX interchangeably. I wrote Atlantis because I happened to be stuck on a Mac almost exclusively for a while when my PC was broken, and sorely missed SimpleMU. When I was unable to convince Kath to port it, I started writing my own.
SimpleMU was written in Delphi and relied on some external libs for which the source was not available. Reimplementing it from scratch really was the only option. Kudos for exceeding your design goals by such a wide margin
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@RnMissionRun said in Spawns and How You Use Them:
@Sparks said in Spawns and How You Use Them:
@Rook nah, I use Windows, Linux, and OSX interchangeably. I wrote Atlantis because I happened to be stuck on a Mac almost exclusively for a while when my PC was broken, and sorely missed SimpleMU. When I was unable to convince Kath to port it, I started writing my own.
SimpleMU was written in Delphi and relied on some external libs for which the source was not available. Reimplementing it from scratch really was the only option.
I know, I know. I had the conversation with Kath. My argument at the time was that a from-scratch reimplementation that was cross-platform compatible would be better future-proofed. Ironic, really, since as Atlantis was the Mac sibling to SimpleMU, I didn't bother to write it cross-platform—there was already a Windows option!—and now people tell me they wish it was on Windows.
@RnMissionRun said in Spawns and How You Use Them:
Kudos for exceeding your design goals by such a wide margin
Thank you!
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The demand is real! Especially if you're gonna do that split-screen retroactive spawn thing.
