Free mush software for linux

PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language.
A mud ("multi-user dungeon") is a form of textual virtual reality program. A mud server is a computer program which maintains a world database containing players, objects, rooms, exits, and programs.
People connect to the mud server by using the telnet command or a dedicated mud client, and take on characters in the virtual world, interacting with other players from around the (real) world.
Common activities include game playing, role-playing, socializing, world-building, etc. These servers have also been used for education, research, and artistic endeavors.
A MUSH ("multi-user shared hallucination") is a type of mud which is often used for social and role-playing activities. It is derived from "Tinymud", an early mud server. Its distinguishing features are that any player can typically extend the virtual world by building new rooms and objects, and its internal programming language, MUSHcode, which is considered to be fairly easy to learn.
Enhancements:
- Several bugs and typos were fixed, including two crash situations in PennMUSH 1.8.3.
- It also adds various minor improvements.
- This patch is highly recommended for all users of the "development" series.

Ymusk project is a Perl/Tk mush client.
ymusk stands for Yenzies Mush Klient. It is a mush client written in Perl, and it is built around the Net::Telnet and Tk modules.
It is meant to be a simple program which is easily customizable. Its features include logging, macro definition, speech filters, command history, and ANSI colors.
Main features:
- Mouse wheel support (new in v0.99).
- Three types of text scrolling: none, automatic or more-like (for those weaned on tinyfugue).
- Support of ANSI colors.
- Text filters - have your character speaks in pig latin, or in rot13, or, worse still, in French. Okay, so I was kidding about French. But pig latin and rot13 are really there, and they are nearly as incomprehensible. :)
- Logging function.
- Inline commands. If you know Perl, you can add any type of commands you may think of.
- Configuration file including worlds definition, setting of colors, margin and paragraph spacing, etc.
- ICQ-like GUI to manage pages.
- Possibility to call Perl directly from the input window.
- Multi-output screen offering a separated view of channel discussions, pages, game messages and IC text.
- Multi-input boxes for the multi-taskers among us.
- Clock telling you how much time you wasted on the mush. :)
- Spell-checking (for Un*x platforms only).
- Alarms.
- Automatic warning when connection is lost.
- Forms to send @mail, pages and general (but usually long) stuff. Great for bboard posting and @descs.
Enhancements:
- Mouse wheel support has been added.

TinyMUX is a text-based game server in the MUSH family.
The project is a platform that allows several thousand players to connect to a single text-driven environment, and interact with each other and with the environment (which is maintained in a database).
The rich programming environment can be used to build almost anything, limited only by the developers imagination.
Instructions for New Installations:
1. cd src/ to the source directory. Run ./configure.
This will customize autoconf.h and Makefile for your system. Add
the option --enable-wodrealms to enable WOD Realms (See
docs/REALMS). Add --enable-memorybased to enable Memory-Based
database handling (as opposed to the default disk-based database
handling. See docs/MEMORY).
2. Edit the Configuration section of the Makefile. This is usually
not needed. Most likely, all you will need to change are any C++
flags needed by your particular C++ compiler,(in particular
-fpcc-struct-return), and any esoteric libraries needed by your
system. There may also be some #defines in config.h that you may want
to change, but in general, the defaults should not be changed.
3. Run make depend, then make. This will produce netmux, slave,
and dbconvert.
4. When starting from a MUX from scratch, do the following:
- cd to the game directory. cd ../game
- Make your configuration file, as described in docs/CONFIGURATION
- Type ./Startmux. TinyMUX 2.6 automatically creates a minimal
DB if one does not exist in the game/data directory.
- Log into the game as player wizard connect wizard potrzebie,
and shut it down again.
5. Edit the .txt files in game/text to your liking. In particular
connect.txt and motd.txt.
6. Start up TinyMUX 2.6 by running ./Startmux again.
7. @ccreate a channel named Public, and a channel named Guests from
within the MUX. Created players will automatically be joined to
Publicwith alias pub, guests will automatically join Guests with
alias g.
Whats New in 2.7.0.6 Development Release:
- Dynamically-loadable modules patterned after COM were added.
- @hook is now allowed to work on exits, enter aliases, and leave aliases.
- A type-punning bug in mux_fpclass() was fixed.
- A hang in MUNGE() if given zero words was fixed.
- Various @restart scenarios between SSL and non-SSL and from 2.6 to 2.7 were fixed.
- The SSL/TLS engine was reworked to use a TLS-specific context for STARTTLS, rather than reusing the SSLv3 context.
- fun_wrap and linewrap_general were merged.
Whats New in 2.6.3.22 Stable Release:
- A type-punning bug was fixed. Beta status was removed.

PyGCS is designed to be a VERY stripped down MUD-like chat-server that runs in a small amount of memory. It differs from common MUDs in several ways:
1. PyGCS has a single "room" and no large database to keep in memory and on disk.
2. PyGCS has no embedded programming language

PyGCS is ideally meant to be a small multi-user real-time chat system for people who have a need to talk to more than one person at a time online. It fits somewhere in between the setup IRC uses and the MUCK/MUSH/MOO style of server.
You can use it at things like:
A central location for system administrators and other administrative people to discuss immediate problems with local networks, etc
- A personal place to talk with friends without loading down the machine its run on.
- A continuous backup for social type MUDs

The PyGCS server that I run is very regularly up for 70+ days at a time and usually goes down because of the host being rebooted.

Once you get the server installed and up-and-running, youll need a way to connect to the server. More specifically, youll need a client program to connect to the server. This topic isnt my problem :), but basically you have two options:
1. Raw telnet. (Already installed on almost any OS, but it is poor for this use because it doesnt seperate the servers output lines from your input (typed) lines.)
2. MUD Client. (You MAY have to compile it, but it gives you the benefit of seperating input and output as well as some sort of macro language possibly, etc).

IRC->Telnet project is a IRC to telnet bridge.

IRC->Telnet is a bridge which allows you to use IRC clients to access telnet-based online games like MUSHes, MUDs, and MOOs.

Quick installation guide

- install Twisted
- Add to your PYTHONPATH
- run "mktap irctelnet -p -h -t "
- run "twistd -f irctelnet.tap"
- run your IRC client when the host is the host running twistd, and the port is the "local port" above.

This is a plugin that makes it possible for you to use your favourite IRC client to connect to MUSH/MUD/MOOs.

Well, after its installed and running you connect with an IRC client. Then you join some channel (doesnt matter which). The server will connect to the remote telnet-based site, and relay.

Anything you say (that is, none-CTCP PRIVMSGs) is just relayed to the remote site. Emote PRIVMSGs are sent as : , which is usually the emote command in M[UO]*s