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TinyMUX
The other big MUSH server. Softcode close enough to PennMUSH's to argue about, no MSSP at all, and a pre-login WHO that works.
Games running it
We have not identified any yet. That is a fact about what this crawler has measured, not about what exists — a game we have not reached, or whose codebase we could not read, is not counted here.
TinyMUX is the second of the two servers most established roleplay MUSHes run, and for many
players the choice between it and PennMUSH is a matter of which one their game's staff learned
first. Versions read as 2.12 and similar.
Like PennMUSH it descends from TinyMUSH, and its softcode is close enough that a builder moving
between the two is translating rather than relearning. The differences are real — function
libraries, some parsing corners, the @-command set — and are exactly the kind of thing that makes
moving a database between them a project rather than an export.
What it looks like from outside
No MSSP. TinyMUX offers the option not at all, which puts it with AresMUSH, MUCK, RhostMUSH,
CobraMUSH and TinyMUSH on the side of the hobby that an MSSP-only directory simply cannot see. Its
player count comes from a WHO at the login screen, which it answers with a plain count.
It does negotiate CHARSET, which is how it comes out ahead of most of its relatives on non-ASCII text.
Where the counts come from
If you are comparing this site's number for a TinyMUX game against another directory's, note that
we read the login-screen WHO and most crawlers do not. A directory built on MSSP alone reports
these games as having no count at all, or does not list them.
See also
- PennMUSH The most widely deployed MUSH server. Softcode, a long release history, and one of only two codebases in our survey that answer both MSSP and a pre-login WHO.
- TinyMUSH The ancestor of the MUSH line, still running games. It taught this crawler that its own negotiation bytes can break the next command it sends.
- RhostMUSH A MUSH server known for a deep permissions model and a large built-in function set. No MSSP; answers a pre-login WHO.
- MUSH, MUD, MUCK, MOO — what the words mean Four words for four traditions, none of which is a genre. What they actually tell you.