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67 lines
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# Town MOO
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COME JOIN!
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rlwrap -pYellow -S '> ' nc localhost 7777
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Quickstart:
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- `"` to speak, `:` to act.
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- `look` to look at things
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- `@describe me as "a funny little fellow"`
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- `@gender MYGENDER`
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- `@ways` to see exits, and `@go home` if you get stuck.
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- `@create $thing named "bowl of spaghetti"`
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- `@audit` to see a list of all objects you own.
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- Check `news` and `help` for LOADS MORE.
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## What is this?
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It's a MOO, which is a kind of text-based virtual reality. Part chatroom, part
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programming, part creative writing. You can create, describe and program your
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own objects and rooms.
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Specifically, this is ToastStunt, which is a fork of the venerable LambdaMOO.
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It runs a ToastCore database.
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## What is the future of MOO on tilde.town?
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Who knows?
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- This is an experiment/proof of concept.
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- I make no promises about the durability of the database. **If you make
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something and want to keep it, `@dump` it!**
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- I had to patch the code to get it running, so it might be crashy.
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See <./compiling.md> for tilde.town-specific building steps.
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See <./db_setup.md> for basic database setup.
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## I want to learn more!
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MOOs and MUDs were very popular in the early days of the internet, and thus
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have a rich history. Many are still alive today.
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Recommended resources:
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- [Yib's Guide to MOOing](http://www.yibco.com/) (2003).
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- Excellent resource for beginners, originally written about LambdaMOO (of which ToastStunt is a derivative). Most of the commands discussed still work in ToastStunt.
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- [The New Wizards FAQ](https://jkira.github.io/moo-cows/docs/faqs/new-archwiz-faq.html) (Date unknown, but old).
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- More technical in nature. Focused on people running their own MOO.
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- [ToastStunt Programmer's Manual](https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt-documentation/blob/master/manual/toaststunt-programmers-manual.md) (2023).
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- Very technical. Useful only if you want to know how things work under the hood.
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- [A Rape in Cyberspace](http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/) (1998).
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- Chapter one of a book called "My Tiny Life," which is contentious in some circles, but I enjoyed it for its view into MOOing in its heyday. Interesting to see how the early internet responded to trolling.
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See also:
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- [timbran/moor](https://codeberg.org/timbran/moor).
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- Needs a little more time in the oven, imo, but this is the most promising modern MOO engine I've seen.
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Further information:
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- <https://lisdude.com/moo/>
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- <https://jkira.github.io/moo-cows/>
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- [YouTube: SevenEcks](https://www.youtube.com/@SevenEcks/videos). About the only MOO resource on YT.
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- [Reddit: MUD](https://old.reddit.com/r/MUD/).
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