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I seem to recall using MXP nearly a decade ago for my MMORPG's...

First google result "MXP Protocol" and wikipedia result!

Definitely need a new name. MXP has been used by zuggsoft as the name of their Mud eXtension Protocol for quite some time.

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Thousands of MUDs. :)

And for a good MUD/Telnet client for gaming, I suggest zMUD

zChat is a PGP encrypted chat client and is, I believe, strictly peer-to-peer. Alternatives are good, right? Note that the link page doesn't display properly in Opera for some reason, but works fine in Firefox. I plan to install a Jabber server myself, but zChat is dependable. I've used it since I've got a license to zMud.

The zMUD beer is cheap, and it comes complete with the brewer and all of his assistants waiting to help you out of the bar after a long night. Don't get me wrong--I'm an associate member of GNU, and I use Linux on almost all of my boxes. But zMUD is, bar none, the best MUDding software out there. And Zugg (who works with his wife, Chiara) is the most dedicated developer I've ever met.

Oh, and for extra points--he's switching over to PHP and MySQL soon. He's a nuclear physicist. He used Perl back before it was cool. He wrote his own copy-protection engine, which was actually pretty effective. His geek cred is pretty far up there; isn't it worth taking a second look to see what he's really offering?

Don't accept the RMS screw-the-business-case mentality. This is a single developer, not a monolithic corporation, deriving his living from just a few software products he writes by himself, and the end product is far cheaper than the cost of developing a replacement. On a personal level, it's worth supporting him, and as a business case, you really can't justify producing an alternative on any cost basis that I've ever heard of.

Just something to think about,
Jouster

On the Windows side, your best bet is Zuggsoft's ZMud. If you do not want to pay the shareware cost, it has a free, albeit trimmed down, version. Another free Windows client you might want to try is the R0A client.

On Unix, a good GUI client is GMudix.

Being that I've played a few MUD's over the years, I've found that nothing like a Linux/Unix shell account and (T)he k(I)cki(N) (T)ickin d(I)kumud clie(N)t (TinTin++)can beat the features and quickness for those wacky text base games. Although Zuggsoft's was a good client when I happened to use in on occasion (Back when Win 3.11 was still predominantly used on school computers), it just doesn't beat the speed of TinTin. On the other hand, I've heard that WinTin is a good Win32 client based on the TinTin code, though havn't used it myself, if it's anything like it's cousin, I'm sure it's a decent client (even if it is on a windoze platform). All in all, it depends on what kind of client you're looking for, something with lots of eye candy, use the windows ones, but for the pure speed and transparentness, use TinTin hands down.

Anyone ever played Medievia?

Its probably the most played MUD today, and I'm still an avid player. Telnet to it here or download a MUD client.

Easy to do... make it text-based :-)

If you need to be more bandwidth-friendly than that, compress it!

This just sounds like a text based game competition. Contrary to popular belief, text based games are alive and well.

The mud connector has a listing of over 1500 mu*s, which, to the uninformed, is a Multi-User Whatever, normally Dungeon/Domain, but has grown to include Mushes etc. In a mud, everything is text based, and multiuser is the norm. On mud I used to play on had around 100 people on it at a time at its most popular (around a year ago). For the serious, I recommend a good mud client, Zmud seems popular (windows and shareware though), but any telnet client will do.

Also, games like Nethack are still being maintained and expanded. Pure text (although a QT interface is out there), for single player, but Nethack will always be on the top of any gaming list for me due to the style of gameplay.

Ah, textbased. Sometimes (as in the case of many muds), it has the habit to be bad. In other cases (yah, nethack!) it can be the best gaming out there. Then again, blowing someone's head off, such as in quake or doom, is satisfying, and no mud will every match the visual appeal of 8 wolves chasing you, a single halfling, to the guards (a scene I've seen from Everquest).

I was hoping this functionality (along with Junkbuster itself) would be integrated into Mozilla someday. Since it's an open source program, I have no doubts that someday, someone, somewhere will hack up a nifty privacy-enabled version of Mozilla.

There is an incredibly useful MUD client called zMUD that contains a feature I'd love to see more often: tiny little toggle buttons for various features that you may want to turn on or off, sitting unobtrusively to the right of the input bar. Would it be that difficult to put a little 'proxy' icon to the side of the location bar? God knows they don't have enough stupid little useless icons up there. Click it to toggle the proxy on and off, among other things. Also a little toggle for Javascript would be immensely helpful.

That's MY "what I want..."