TinTin++

Infobox Software
name = TinTin++



caption =
developer = Igor van den Hoven
latest_release_version = 1.98.3
latest_release_date = July 16th, 2008
programming language = C
operating_system = Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
genre = MUD client
license = GNU GPL
website = [http://tintin.sourceforge.net/ tintin.sourceforge.net]

TinTin++ is a MUD client primarily written for Linux like systems. It is one of the oldest MUD clients in existence and a successor of the TINTIN client whose name stands for The kIckiN Tickin dIkumud clieNt.

About

TinTin++ is a console telnet client enhanced with features that work particularly well for playing MUDs, though it allows connecting to Linux and BBS servers as well. To enhance game play on MUDs the client allows creating a VT100 split-screen, which separates the screen into an input, output, and status area. Input handling is enhanced with readline-like input editing, macro, and alias support. Text received from the server can be highlighted or set to execute triggers written in the TINTIN scripting language which resembles the C programming language.

TinTin++ has various other features that are commonly found in modern MUD clients, such as auto mapping, MCCP, private P2P, HTML logging, and 64 bit floating point mathematical expressions.

History

TINTIN originated as a single file containing 700 lines of C code, allowing triggers and aliases, that was posted on Usenet by Peter Unold on April 1, 1992. [cite web
url=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sources/msg/b144a14d0d0a9741
title=TINTIN - a dikumud client
author=Peter Unold
accessdate=2008-07-08
date=1992-04-01] On October 6 1992 Peter Unold made his final release, TINTIN III, which was a much more matured and feature rich program. [cite web
url=http://groups.google.nl/group/rec.games.mud.diku/msg/1f603d9ddbe251a9
title=TINTIN III released
author=Peter Unold
accessdate=2008-07-08
date=1992-10-06]

In 1993 the development of TINTIN was continued by Bill Reiss who announced the release of TinTin++ v1.0 on July 3, 1993. [cite web
url=http://groups.google.nl/group/rec.games.mud.diku/msg/49964f64eff2b017
title=where to get tintin++
author=Bill Reiss
accessdate=2008-07-08
date=1993-06-03] On April 25, 1994 TinTin++ 1.5 was announced, which was a joint effort by Bill Reiss, David A. Wagner, Rob Ellsworth, and Jeremy C. Jack. [cite web
url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.mud.announce/msg/b8f43b74e9df9a70
title=Tintin++ v1.5 ready for release
author=Robert Ellsworth
accessdate=2008-07-09
date=1994-04-24]

After the 1.5 release in 1994 active development came to a halt. TinTin++ 1.5 had gained significant popularity however, and being public domain this resulted in many derivative works like Zmud, yTin, Lyntin, Pueblo, WinTin95, and GGMud. [cite web
url=http://www.raphkoster.com/2008/03/25/a-brief-history-of-botting/
title=A brief history of botting
author=Raph Koster
date=2008-03-25
accessdate=2008-08-11
quote=Given that writing a vanilla Telnet client is very easy, it was not long before there were dedicated clients that wrapped Telnet with additional functionality. The best known of these were TinyFugue and TinTin, and today it seems like zMud is still retaining dedicated users.] In 1998 development was continued briefly by Rob Elsworth who incorporated several patches by Sverre Normann before handing over development to Davin Chan who re-licensed the software to GNU GPL on July 12th, 2001 in his final release of TinTin++ 1.86b. [cite web
url=http://archive.debian.net/changelogs/pool/main/t/tintin++/tintin++_1.86-1/copyright
title=tintin++ 1.86 copyright
author=Jordi Mallach
accessdate=2008-07-09
date=2001-08-22]

In 2004 development was continued by Igor van den Hoven. [cite web
url=http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/tintin++/tintin++_1.96.3-1/copyright
title=tintin++ 1.96.3 copyright
author=Ana Beatriz Guerrero López
accessdate=2008-07-09
date=2006-10-03]

Distribution

TinTin++ is currently distributed under the GNU General Public License, and works on most Unix-like operating systems. A port for Microsoft Windows called WinTin++ bundles TinTin++ with the PuTTY terminal emulator. A universal binary is available for Mac OS X.

Supported Protocols

Program Features

External links

* [http://tintin.sourceforge.net TinTin++ MUD client home page]

References