Trebuchet

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What is Trebuchet

Trebuchet is a dynamic MUD/MUCK/MUSH chat client developed by fuzzball-muck. It offers a robust interface for connecting to various internet MUDs, enhancing the traditional experience with advanced features and GUI support. MUDs, or Multi-User Dungeons, are text-based online environments where users can engage in role-playing and interactive storytelling. Trebuchet elevates this experience by providing a more user-friendly interface compared to basic telnet clients, allowing for greater immersion in persistent virtual worlds filled with objects and characters.

Trebuchet stands out by incorporating the TCL/Tk 8 scripting language, enabling users to script GUI interfaces and streamline interactions with the MUD command line. This means you can manage objects, commands, and lists with an intuitive graphical interface, removing the need for cumbersome text commands. Although primarily designed for MUCK environments, Trebuchet is versatile and compatible with other MUD variants like MUSH and TinyMUD.

How to Use Trebuchet

To use Trebuchet, you must have TCL/Tk installed on your system. It runs on Unix with X11, Mac OS X, and Windows. Once you've ensured that TCL/Tk is installed, follow these steps for installation on Unix/Linux systems:

Extract the Files: Use gunzip to uncompress the downloaded tar.gz file and tar to extract it.
Organize Files: Move the extracted directory to a convenient location, such as /usr/local/trebtk.
Create a Softlink: Set up a symbolic link in a directory within your system's PATH to the main Trebuchet script. This allows you to easily start Trebuchet by executing a simple command.

After installation, launch Trebuchet by invoking the softlink. Ensure that the script and its associated directories ('lib' and 'docs') are correctly placed to avoid any runtime issues.

Key Features of Trebuchet

Trebuchet offers a variety of features aimed at enhancing your MUD experience:

Pattern-Based Color Highlighting: Customize the appearance of your chat by highlighting specific lines and words.
Script Triggers: Automate actions with scripts that react to specific patterns.
World and Character Management: Save your worlds, characters, and passwords to streamline logging in and switching contexts.
Macro Commands: Use command line macros to automate complex tasks with ease.
Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts: Execute commands swiftly with customizable keyboard bindings and QuickButtons.
Dynamic GUI Dialogs: Generate and interact with GUI dialogs based on server requests.
SSL Encryption Support: Secure your connections with SSL encryption using the tcltls package.
Command History and Tab Completion: Navigate previous commands and complete text inputs efficiently.
Multi-Connection Support: Manage multiple connections simultaneously without hassle.
Text File Quoting: Share text files directly within your connections.

With these capabilities, Trebuchet empowers you to interact with MUD environments in a more intuitive and efficient manner, whether you're a seasoned player or new to the world of MUDs.

A MUD/MUCK/MUSH chat client with MCP/GUI support.

What This Is:

This is Trebuchet Tk, a MUD client written purely in TCL/Tk 8 (For those of you who are wondering what a MUD is, it's kind of a chat or role play system, somewhat like IRC. However, MUDs have the concept of persistent areas and objects, each with text descriptions and many ways to interact with them. Most MUDs also allow users to create programs to make new ways to interact with their environment.) Trebuchet lets you connect to various internet MUDs with a nicer interface than the usual run of the mill telnet clients. Trebuchet is designed to be as powerful as (if not more than!) tinyfugue, and it will allow some- thing that no other client I know of will: You can write GUI interfaces with its internal TCL/Tk 8 scripting language. This means that scripts can be created to make it much easier to interface with the complex MUD command line interface. Imagine, if you will, being able to edit the objects in the world with a GUI interface, instead of having to remember all the ugly commands. Being able to edit lists in a nice GUI editor without having to deal with the nasty line-at-a-time list editor that MUCKs provide. There is nothing about the Trebuchet client that is specific to MUCK, however. You could use this client with MUSH, MUSE, or old TinyMUD, and write scripts that will interface with each of them specifically.

System Requirements

Since Trebuchet is written in the TCL/Tk language, it has been tested under, and will run on Unix with X11, Mac OS X and Windows. Trebuchet Tk will probably run slow on a 486, or a 68k CPU, but I haven't tried it myself Give it a try. Who knows, it may still run reasonably. You will probably need at least 32 megs of RAM, also.

Features:

This client has the following features (and more) currently implemented:

Color hilighting of lines and words based on patterns
Triggering execution of scripts based on patterns
Keeps track of your worlds, characters, and passwords, so you don't have to keep entering them manually.
Command line macros to help you automate complex tasks.
Keyboard bindings to perform commands with one or two keystrokes.
QuickButtons to perform commands at the click of a mouse button.
Can generate dynamic GUI dialogs upon server request.
Supports SSL encrypted connections, with the tcltls package.
Input command line history.
Tab word completion, based on the last N lines of scrollback.
Simultaneous multi-connection support.
Quoting of text files to connections.
Nearly all GUI features have command-line equivalents.

UNIX/Linux Installation:

This assumes that you already have TCL/Tk (AKA 'wish') already installed on your unix/linux system, and that the 'wish' program is in your $PATH. If you don't have wish installed, you will want to either get the TCL/Tk packages from your OS vendor (RedHat, Debian, etc.) or you may fetch the sources from You need TCL/Tk version 8.0.5 or later. Un-gzip the tarfile: gunzip TrebTk10aXX.tar.gz Untar the tarfile: tar xf TrebTk10aXX.tar Move the directory structure that you unpacked to someplace convenient: mv TrebTk10aXX /usr/local/trebtk Make a softlink from a convenient directory that is in your $PATH, linking to the Trebuchet.tcl file: cd /usr/local/bin ln -s /usr/local/trebtk/Trebuchet.tcl treb Then when you want to run Trebuchet, just invoke the 'treb' softlink. NOTE: The Trebuchet.tcl file MUST be located in the same directory as the 'lib' and 'docs' directories. Otherwise it won't be able to find the libraries it needs to run. This is why you make a softlink to the Trebuchet.tcl file, instead of moving it.

How to Use

To use the trebuchet, follow these steps:

Visit https://github.com/fuzzball-muck/trebuchethttps://github.com/fuzzba...
Follow the setup instructions to create an account (if required)
Connect the MCP server to your Claude Desktop application
Start using trebuchet capabilities within your Claude conversations

Additional Information

Created

September 28, 2016

Company

fuzzball-muck

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