I’ve made a minor update to the Magma codebase. Here’s what’s changed:
1. Added support for loading 4 of the 5 remaining Envy 2.2 zones that wouldn’t load.
2. Bundled the MakeZonesFast32 and DikuEdit 3.10 zone editors in the MUD package.
3. Added DOS conversion utilities for assembling DikuEdit zones (makezone.bat).
MagmaMUD 3.04 is available for download at FindMUD.
Over the past month I’ve been playing around with the Magma 3.02 code a bit more. I found a few crash-bugs and fixed them, mostly caused by references to rooms and objects from Basternae 2 that no longer exist.
The big change is that 58 of the 63 original Envy 2.2 zones will load in the engine. This means you can actually run a MUD with the codebase. Nobody wants to play a stock MUD, but at least you can have a functioning game world while all of your new areas are being built.
I’m sure there are still some bugs and/or stability issues, but this release is a big step forward.
Let me reiterate what I said when releasing 3.02: This is _NOT_ the code I’ve been working on for Basternae 3. This is the codebase from early Basternae 2.
It’s posted on FindMUD if you would like to download it. Runs on Linux (tested on Ubuntu) and Windows (tested on XP).
During a trip this Thanksgiving I updated the Magma codebase a little. All I really did was fix a few compile errors that have come up in the past seven years due to changes with the C language and compilers — it’s otherwise the same code.
There’s a solution file that builds in Visual Studio 2005 (express or full version) and it also has a makefile that will compile in Ubuntu Linux 6.06.
This is the C code from the Basternae 2 rebuild era, released in 2000. This is _NOT_ the code I’ve been working on over the past few months.
Why’d I convert it? Boredom mostly. It’s posted on FindMUD in case anyone is interested.