This is the home of Arlene and Joachim Pileborg on the Wild Wild Web.
It’s not much, but from time to time one of us may post some thoughts or other things we want to get off of our chests.
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 be traveling to the Philippines.
I have the next couple of articles almost finished, so I hope to put them up in quick succession when I get back home to Sweden.
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 the Multi User in Multi User Dungeon: Networking.
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 is running.
For the previous article see part 3, and you can find the code we will be building on on github under the part-3 tag.