I haven’t been able to post new updates to the TutorialMUD series lately. Mostly because I have been very busy at work, but I have also started working again on one of my private projects. I will also not be able to post anything for another couple of weeks, as me and my wife will …
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Tutorial MUD, part 5: Networking, part 1
By now we have a program that obediently sits at the command prompt, waiting for us to press CTRL-C so that it can shutdown in a nice way. It all works, but it’s not very exciting. In this part we will begin writing one of the interesting parts of a MUD server, the part that actually puts …
Tutorial MUD, part 4: Mainloop and signals
We are starting to get the groundwork of our server in place, there are just a couple of things left to do. The first thing is to create a loop that will keep the server running. The second thing is to handle signals such as a user pressing CTRL-C in the console where the program …
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Tutorial MUD, part 3: Argument parsing
In this third part of Tutorial MUD, we will start parsing the command line options. We will continue working on the code done in part 1 and part 2, so we will have an almost empty main function and start from that. The code in part 2 can be found in github.