Can bbs door MUD style games be coded in Java?
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MaxMouse__ · 2017-12-12 00:10

I’ve spent a few years casually teaching myself Java, I still consider
myself to be quite new as I have just taught myself casually.

I now want to make a door game for BBSes especially MysticBBS, I was
wondering if it’s possible to write a MUD in Java for BBSes, or is it
not possible and do I need to learn a totally new language? I’ve
though at starting to learn python as I’ve seen many mods and such
codes for BBSes using python and have seen pascal mentioned a few
times when MUDs comeup, I don’t really want to learn a new language as
I like Java so far.

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ShooterJennings · 2017-12-12 00:48

I believe u can for Synchronet. /u/kirkman14 does a lot I believe.

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NuSkooler · 2017-12-12 06:58

Of course. For Mystic in particular, create something that adheres to
door32.sys drop files. In general, create a door that works with
standard I/O and it will work with almost all systems.

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kevinlamonte · 2017-12-12 15:30

Absolutely they can be.  There are two different things you are asking
though.

Do you want to actually be a BBS door?  As in users must log in to the
BBS, and then select the door, and then your code runs?  If so, then
you need to see how door.sys-type handshaking was done, and write your
game to read/write to System.in/out.  You will also want to use
codepage 437 because almost everyone connecting to BBSes uses clients
that speak CP437.

Or do you just want a good text interface, that can run on anything,
i.e. doesn't need to have a BBS to spawn it?  If so, then you have
several options for speaking text to xterm-type emulators using UTF-8
encoding.  Lanterna is a popular Java text-mode library, but my own
Jexer is pretty good and has mouse support to boot.  But there are
other rouge-like libraries for Java that can speak xterm or do a Swing
window.

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mro_1337 · 2017-12-14 05:38

java is not javascript

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ShooterJennings · 2017-12-14 18:45

Yes u r correct and I missed that.

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istarian · 2017-12-15 05:28

I think you should narrow down what you want exactly.

Do you want a roguelike sequel game where your interaction with other
players is limited to stat boasting and maybe observation?

Do you want a multiplayer rpg with some level of player interaction?
Why do you want to chain such a thing to a BBS?

Some Java mud servers/code:

https://github.com/chriskearney/creeper
https://github.com/jnharton/mud-server (an incomplete project of mine)
http://www.coffeemud.org/
https://github.com/ProjectMoon/ringmud
^ these are real MUD servers offering a "telnet" interface (sometimes
that just means raw text over a TCP socket), but you can get a sense
for the core parts of them.