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This is all very wip.

What is Tintin++?

TinTin++ (from now on called tt) is a mud client, dating back over 20 years, making it one of the oldest mud clients around.

Website: http://tintin.sourceforge.net/

History?

Started as 700 lines of c code, posted on Usenet by Peter Unold on April 1, 1992.

Why TinTin++?

Cross platform, runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Gnu/Linux, BSD, Soloris.

Installing

Windows

It's suggested on vista and above that you install and use it under cygwin. Get cygwin from here. For those on Vista and lower download the WinTin++ installer from here.

Mac OSX

Gnu/Linux(s)

Arch Linux

tt can be found in the aur.

Download the snapshot, extract it, run makepkg where you extracted it.

curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/tintin.tar.gz
tar xzf tintin.tar.gz
cd tintin
makepkg -sri

makepkg -sri should grab any dependencies, compile and install tt.

BSD(s)

Both freebsd and openbsd have it in ports.

Solaris

Post Install

TinTin++ and 4D

Examples

Example TinTin++ file: http://4dimensions.org/wiki/index.php/User:Isidora

Sources