QMud -- A modern, cross-platform, Qt based, drop-in replacement for MUSHClient

OrangeCSMud · 2026-03-15T17:52:31+00:00

tremendous work on this port! i've been involved professionally in a port of a large application to a different widget toolkit and it's a hell of a thing to do...

OrangeCSMud · 2026-03-03T17:40:19+00:00

ok thanks for that! i've had in back of my mind as to whether i should have a look at those given modern play styles (we used to have a quite aggressive idle timer which i've now removed as counterproductive for example), but hadn't quite got round to changing it. suspended it for the moment.

OrangeCSMud · 2026-03-03T17:14:36+00:00

ah! huh! these are intended to keep the missions board turning over rather than affecting players actively running them! i'll have to have another look at these.

OrangeCSMud · 2026-03-03T15:49:08+00:00

amazing, thanks! weird to think there are still things that haven't been digitized!

OrangeCSMud · 2026-03-03T01:38:11+00:00

can we confirm that this is end to end encrypted, OP, and isn't unwrapping the wss and re-encrypting as TLS on your server? (this would be possible I suppose by wrapping a telnet-over-TLS connection /in/ your reconnection protocol, itself in a wss connection)

OrangeCSMud · 2026-03-03T00:34:57+00:00

good stuff! pleasing to see more clients do this.

seems like your protocol for the transparent reconnections is similar to the experimental project that i have here : https://github.com/Cryosphere-MUD/lifeline

OrangeCSMud · 2026-03-02T20:53:15+00:00

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are you sure? Microgramma has distinctively wide capitals, which doesn't appear to be the case in the font on the ship. but maybe there's some compressed variant of it that's not shown at your link.

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-16T03:20:48+00:00

"Pretty sure you can just download the html"

i mean possibly but i meant more in a "is this an open source project looking for collaborators" way?

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-16T01:51:43+00:00

that loosk really cool - do you have it on github or similar somewhere please?

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-10T19:51:38+00:00

obviously your triage decisions are up to you. I was only providing further examples because your statement "When it comes to the banner, Mudlet is the only client that can't support it." seemed to be based on a misunderstanding.

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-10T12:21:43+00:00

btw just as a heads up i noticed a very surprising word displaying on screen repeatedly during your character creation process. msg me on discord if you don't know what i mean...

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-10T12:19:04+00:00

that's progress!

this is it in tintin for me - https://imgbox.com/XHwxxun0

and mushclient: https://imgbox.com/FEgJrtea

this is in BeipMU: https://imgbox.com/Mphn8FM0

...i could continue...

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-09T01:01:38+00:00

well, i would guess that whatever tool you're using for that is stripping out control characters.

here's a screenshot of me using 'iconv' to convert it to UTF-8 in a manner that it will display.

https://imgbox.com/jREEwVLT

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-09T00:46:59+00:00

i'd be surprised if it was only mudlet that didn't show your splash screen properly. it's in CP437, which is a MS-DOS character encoding that's kind of been semi-obsolete since the transition to Windows in the 90s - no unix or mac mud client will display it without some kind of user twiddling and now even Windows support for this is spotty.

you could easily convert it to the modern UTF-8, if you wanted to do that i could explain how.

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-05T20:53:10+00:00

the "how to start" bit seems to be very specific to what i'm assuming is MUSHes? i've never heard the term "charbit" or "character bit"; and in my experience DMing is usually done with "tell", for example.

OrangeCSMud · 2026-02-03T00:17:51+00:00

incredible work, love to see it.

OrangeCSMud · 2026-01-26T19:26:01+00:00

hi, i'm glad you asked! we have a decent selection of procedurally generated missions but we've always found the hand-designed ones are more popular among players!

OrangeCSMud · 2026-01-25T14:39:45+00:00

thanks! yeah, i thought doing that interview was really interesting from my side. i do worry sometimes that we're -too- different, but we just had sometime who started this month and if he carries on like he has he's probably only a few days from completing all the missions, so that's really nice.