talvo's blog

It's been a while coming, but I've finally gotten a public beta release of my MU* client out for testing. It's called Potato (don't ask me why;) and you can find it at http://potato.talvo.com. It's a graphical client, and runs on Windows and Linux.

Whenever I release code, I always make the help-files suitable for a hardcoded help/+help command added through mush.cnf. Lately, though, I've had several people ask me for copies of them suitable for a softcoded +help system, so I've written a little tool for converting them. You can use it for any helpfile - I've lightly tested it with a few off my site, and a couple out of the PennMUSH distro.

For the last few years I've been use a MUSHclient which I wrote myself, and generally speaking I'm happy with the way it works - it has all the features I use, and I'm happy with the (fairly basic) look, etc. The code for it has gotten kind've muddled, though, over the last four years or so - it wasn't written with expansion in mind (my first big project), and because of that it's been hacked to pieces where I've added new features.

I'm not really much of a blogger (in fact, every time my friends have convinced me to create one somewhere I've become notorious for never posting on it), but I've been pondering mentioning my small softcode archive on here since I posted about it on M*U*S*H, and Javelin's recent post has inspired me to write something up here.