On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:17:12PM -0800, Chris Ward wrote:
[...]
> Could you give me the rundown on what 128 bit files accomplish ? I never
> really did look into them much, but always heard people saying they'd like
> to add them to their mud, and just wondered why, and exactly what the
> benefits where.
[...]
The way vanilla CircleMUD works now, many of the options are stored
as boolean bitflags in a 32-bit int. This limits things like wear
slots, for example, to a maximum of 32 by default. There are a
number of fairly easy ways around this limitation, some more
portable than others. The 128-bit patch is one of the more
platform-independent methods. It replaces the ints with arrays of
ints (if i'm remembering correctly), which means most of the
bitshifting has to be replaced with function calls.
> Hey is your
> mud code shareable ? meaning would you be willing to let someone cut it all
> up and pull it apart to share what you've done with your code to the rest
> of the mud community ? thats what I plan on doing with my own mud,
[...]
I try to do this already. My present MUD project, which is still
incomplete for the moment, is available for download as patches
against the most recent Circle CVS snapshots: http://srmud.net/src/
Anybody who wants to hack up my additions is welcome to do so. Copy
it verbatim and claim it's yours for all I care. I don't need creds.
Look through the changelog for anything you might want to take.
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