Comparison of MUD clients
Operating systems
The operating systems the clients can run on.
Name | Windows | Mac OS X | GNU/Linux | BSD | Unix |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AMudClient | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Atlantis | No | Yes | No | No | No |
CMUD | Yes | No | No | No | No |
GGMUD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GMUD | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Gnome-Mud | No | No | Yes | No | No |
JamochaMUD | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI |
KBtin | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
KildClient | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
KMuddy | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Lyntin | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI |
mcl | No | No | Yes | No | No |
muby | No | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI |
Mudlet | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MudMagic | Yes | Yes* | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MUSHclient | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Portal | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Potato | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI |
Powwow | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Pueblo/UE | Yes | No | No | No | No |
SimpleMU | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Soiled | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI |
TinTin++ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
TinyFugue | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Trebuchet | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI | PFI |
Wintin.Net | Windows 8 requires beta | No | No | No | No |
zMUD | Yes | No | No | No | No |
- PFI: Platform independent or Interpreted software
* Available for PowerPC only.
Protocol support
Information about what protocols the clients support.
Name | COLOR | VT100 | SSL | NAWS | EOR | ECHO | MCCP | MXP | MSP | MMCP | 256 colors | Unicode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AMudClient | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Atlantis | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
CMUD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
GGMUD | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | ? |
GMUD | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Gnome-Mud | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
JamochaMUD | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | No | No | No | ? |
KBtin | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
KildClient | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
KMuddy | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? |
Lyntin | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
mcl | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
muby | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
Mudlet | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
MudMagic | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? |
MUSHclient | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Portal | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Potato | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Powwow | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
Pueblo/UE | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? |
SimpleMU | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Soiled | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | ? |
TinTin++ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
TinyFugue | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Trebuchet | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Wintin.Net | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? |
zMUD | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? |
- A locally ran MCCP or SSL proxy server can be used by clients that do not support MCCP or SSL natively.
Scripting support
Name | C# | Client-Specific | Lua | Perl | Python | Ruby | TINTIN | VB.NET | Tcl | PHP | JScript |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AMudClient | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Atlantis | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
CMUD | WSH | No | Yes | WSH | WSH | WSH | Yes | WSH | ? | ? | WSH |
GGMUD | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
GMUD | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Gnome-Mud | No | No | ? | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
JamochaMUD | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
KBtin | No | No | ? | No | No | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
KildClient | No | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
KMuddy | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
Lyntin | No | No | ? | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
mcl | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
muby | No | No | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Mudlet | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
MudMagic | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
MUSHclient | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Minimal | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Portal | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Potato | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Powwow | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Pueblo/UE | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? |
SimpleMU | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Soiled | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
TinTin++ | No | No | CLI | CLI | CLI | CLI | Yes | No | CLI | CLI | No |
TinyFugue | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Trebuchet | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Wintin.Net | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
zMUD | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | WSH |
Notes
- WSH: Windows Script Host allows the execution of various scripting languages.
- CLI: command-line interface using redirection, not to be confused with system (C standard library)
- Many clients provide their own scripting language, sometimes in addition to another scripting language.
- Clients providing a modified version of the original TINTIN scripting language are listed as supporting TINTIN.