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User profile for Nick Gammon

Name:	Nick Gammon
Country:	Australia
On since:	Mon 05 Feb 2001
Biography:	I am the author of MUSHclient, SMAUG/ROM Area Editor, and various other programs. I have been programming for over 40 years on various operating systems, including NCR, Burroughs, Prime, DEC, Apple II, Commodore 64, Amstrad, Macintosh, MSDOS, Windows 95/98/NT, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I have coded in NEAT/3, BPL, Fortran, Cobol, Forth, Pascal, C, C++, Basic, Visual Basic, Java Script, HTML, PHP, ASP, SQL, various assemblers, Postscript, and Lua. I have been interested in adventure games, including MUD games, for quite a few years. I wrote MUSHclient to help me play MUDs, have ported a few MUD servers from Unix to Windows, and developed my own MUD server (still a work in progress). I am currently using Windows XP for my Windows development, running under VMware on Mac OS/X, Windows XP for games, and Linux for Unix development. I also wrote the software for this forum site from scratch, using PHP and MySQL. These days I write small utility programs in Lua, which is extremely flexible, not only for embedded scripting, but for standalone applications.
Posts:	18,770
Home page:	http://www.gammon.com.au

Recent posts

MUSHclient: General: Two problems (variables I guess) Wed 15 May 2013 10:30 PM
MUSHclient: Tips and tricks: Regexp with %name% Mon 13 May 2013 12:26 PM
Area Editor: General: Noob Builder Looking for Skills.dat Commands.dat and Socials.dat Mon 13 May 2013 12:11 PM
MUSHclient: VBscript: conditional checking Mon 13 May 2013 12:10 PM
Forum: Suggestions: Scripting Error Popup Sat 04 May 2013 07:16 AM
MUSHclient: General: Newbie to mushclient Sat 04 May 2013 07:15 AM
MUSHclient: General: does this SafeWait make sense? Sat 04 May 2013 07:14 AM
MUSHclient: General: Variables in a trigger Wed 24 Apr 2013 10:36 PM
MUSHclient: General: Recording Speedwalks Wed 24 Apr 2013 10:26 AM
MUSHclient: General: Regular Expression Issue With a Trigger Wed 24 Apr 2013 10:24 AM
MUSHclient: General: MUSHClient and lag, OS X Mon 22 Apr 2013 11:52 AM
SMAUG: Compiling the server: Compiling Error due to linkage conflict Mon 22 Apr 2013 11:39 AM
MUSHclient: Lua: Determining of TriggerGroup enabled/disabled Fri 19 Apr 2013 10:54 PM
MUSHclient: Development: PCRE-related compiler errors Fri 19 Apr 2013 10:51 PM
MUSHclient: General: how to fire a trigger when receive messages without newline characters? Thu 18 Apr 2013 12:09 PM
MUSHclient: General: NAWS unchecked but still sending? Thu 18 Apr 2013 12:08 PM
Forum: Problems: no 'start a new subject' link on electronics forum Thu 18 Apr 2013 11:52 AM
MUSHclient: General: Removing newline characters from Mud output Sun 14 Apr 2013 09:11 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: hotspot tooltips shouldn't show if the mouse button is being held down Tue 09 Apr 2013 07:05 AM
MUSHclient: General: Line wrapping breaks lines in the middle of words Mon 08 Apr 2013 08:52 AM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Plugins w/changeable aliases, triggers, etc. Mon 08 Apr 2013 08:51 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: GPS digital clock Thu 04 Apr 2013 06:27 AM
MUSHclient: Miniwindows: Trouble with WindowInfo(win,6) Sun 31 Mar 2013 11:01 PM
MUSHclient: General: Saving output to somewhere easily accessible? Sun 31 Mar 2013 10:58 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Making aliases in lua Sun 31 Mar 2013 10:57 PM
MUSHclient: General: asymmetric Base64Decode -> Base64Encode Sat 30 Mar 2013 10:51 PM
MUSHclient: General: Highlighting a Single Word Fri 29 Mar 2013 01:10 AM
MUSHclient: General: Using ( | | ) Fri 29 Mar 2013 01:06 AM
MUSHclient: Development: Can't send command Fri 29 Mar 2013 01:03 AM
MUSHclient: General: Help with Translating Mudlet to Mush Mon 25 Mar 2013 09:36 AM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.90 released - with code-page translation of typing Sun 24 Mar 2013 05:23 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Using a 74HC165 input shift register Sat 23 Mar 2013 06:32 AM
MUSHclient: General: Donations received, thanks! Thu 21 Mar 2013 09:43 PM
Forum: Problems: Question on the Arduino Uno adjusting high frequency PWM Thu 21 Mar 2013 09:40 PM
Electronics: Microprocessors: 74HC4051 multiplexer / demultiplexer Thu 14 Mar 2013 06:33 AM
MUSHclient: General: Multi Line trigger Help in SWR Wed 13 Mar 2013 07:53 AM
MUSHclient: Jscript: js,miniwindows Drawing text syntax error Sat 09 Mar 2013 08:37 PM
MUSHclient: General: Counting time between lines Sat 09 Mar 2013 09:54 AM
MUSHclient: Jscript: jscript how to create miniwindow Fri 08 Mar 2013 10:30 PM
MUSHclient: General: [Resolved] Tick timer no longer works/on time. Fri 08 Mar 2013 10:28 PM
MUSHclient: General: Aliases and comments and splitting text between output/to world Wed 06 Mar 2013 04:58 AM
MUSHclient: General: local editing in moo with mushclient Tue 05 Mar 2013 05:57 AM
MUSHclient: General: Using italics Tue 05 Mar 2013 03:06 AM
SMAUG: Running the server: Graceful restart from NUX environment Tue 05 Mar 2013 02:55 AM
MUSHclient: Suggestions: Exporting triggers/aliases by groups Tue 05 Mar 2013 02:32 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: BSOD on Windows 8 Mon 04 Mar 2013 08:33 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Call script routine inside Plugin Sun 03 Mar 2013 09:49 PM
MUDs: General: startup file Permission Denied. Cygwin Sun 03 Mar 2013 09:47 PM
MUDs: General: Newb with multi-play alias Sun 03 Mar 2013 09:47 PM
MUSHclient: General: MUD Defined Fullscreen Mode Sat 02 Mar 2013 11:06 PM
MUSHclient: Development: UTF-8 & ANSI positioning code Thu 28 Feb 2013 05:32 AM
Forum: Test: Testing tip tag Thu 28 Feb 2013 02:45 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Switches tutorial Wed 27 Feb 2013 05:17 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: Race during startup posts incorrect window width/height? Tue 26 Feb 2013 12:47 AM
MUSHclient: Suggestions: gauge.lua additions Sun 24 Feb 2013 02:34 AM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.89 released - with plugin sequencing Sun 24 Feb 2013 12:40 AM
MUSHclient: General: can't launch help menu in mushclient 4.88 Tue 19 Feb 2013 09:40 AM
MUSHclient: Python: When is DeleteLines() fully processed? Mon 18 Feb 2013 09:28 PM
MUSHclient: General: Trigger matching on more than 0-15 for text_colour Sun 17 Feb 2013 09:18 AM
MUSHclient: Suggestions: application manifest issues, comments? Sun 17 Feb 2013 12:16 AM
MUSHclient: General: Delete words instead of delete line Sat 16 Feb 2013 04:27 AM
MUSHclient: General: Find the Minimum number value in table Sat 16 Feb 2013 04:26 AM
SMAUG: SMAUG coding: Combat System Overhaul Fri 15 Feb 2013 06:28 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: DeleteLines deletes 1 too many. Wed 13 Feb 2013 09:53 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: GMCP and Lusternia Mon 11 Feb 2013 08:19 PM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.88 released Mon 11 Feb 2013 02:30 AM
MUDs: General: Newbie needing help with Cygwin/smaug codebase Sun 10 Feb 2013 08:42 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Performance Sun 10 Feb 2013 08:39 PM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: Can't disable output wrap Sat 09 Feb 2013 11:43 PM
MUSHclient: Python: Getting the ansi color data. Sat 09 Feb 2013 11:35 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Table handling issue Wed 06 Feb 2013 09:36 PM
MUSHclient: General: Dowloadable Mush worlds Wed 06 Feb 2013 09:23 PM
Forum: Problems: Arduino Mega 2560 Problem Wed 06 Feb 2013 10:49 AM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.87 released Tue 05 Feb 2013 11:00 PM
MUSHclient: General: Command Echo option - how to turn it off forever? Mon 04 Feb 2013 08:29 PM
MUDs: MUD Design Concepts: New MUD protocol design Wed 30 Jan 2013 10:14 PM
ROM: Compiling the server: Beginner using Windows-Server help? Wed 30 Jan 2013 10:13 PM
MUSHclient: General: Regular Expression question Wed 30 Jan 2013 10:08 PM
MUSHclient: General: Mushclient with a screenreader problem Tue 29 Jan 2013 10:27 PM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: Keyboard emulation: keeps switching from English to French! Mon 28 Jan 2013 11:36 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: MAPPER- Help needed ! Please... Sun 27 Jan 2013 10:48 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: wait.lua not working as expected. Sat 26 Jan 2013 11:18 PM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Using the Arduino Analog Comparator Sat 26 Jan 2013 10:09 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: luanet Sat 26 Jan 2013 08:41 AM
Programming: General: Regular expression wildcard Sat 26 Jan 2013 02:12 AM
MUSHclient: Lua: OOP method and class variable collisions Fri 25 Jan 2013 05:21 AM
Programming: General: receiving byte speed per second? Thu 24 Jan 2013 06:27 AM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Breaking the plugin into sepparate files Wed 23 Jan 2013 09:46 PM
MUSHclient: General: SQLite column order problem Wed 23 Jan 2013 08:27 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: If/then/else and string.find? Wed 23 Jan 2013 08:24 PM
MUSHclient: General: Persistent variable, two different triggers Tue 22 Jan 2013 09:23 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Lua for beginners Tue 22 Jan 2013 12:10 AM
MUSHclient: Lua: Raw game output - matching for escapes Fri 18 Jan 2013 08:25 PM
MUSHclient: Suggestions: Editing the title bar Tue 15 Jan 2013 04:31 AM
MUSHclient: General: Making targeting aliases using * and %1 Fri 11 Jan 2013 10:17 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Be careful to use wait.lua [solved] Fri 11 Jan 2013 10:15 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: strange error when loading plugin please help! Tue 08 Jan 2013 09:18 PM
MUSHclient: Miniwindows: deleting images? possible? Mon 07 Jan 2013 06:52 AM
MUSHclient: General: How to kill a wait routine? Sat 05 Jan 2013 05:11 AM
MUSHclient: Python: encoding in plugin Tue 01 Jan 2013 09:43 PM
SMAUG: SMAUG coding: Setting skill teachers Tue 01 Jan 2013 09:34 PM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: Paste Not Working Sat 29 Dec 2012 10:12 PM
MUSHclient: General: Need help on a color trigger Sat 29 Dec 2012 12:46 AM
MUSHclient: General: Output hanging? Fri 21 Dec 2012 06:58 PM
Forum: Announcements: New feature: old posts cannot be deleted Wed 19 Dec 2012 12:57 AM
Forum: Announcements: New feature: ability to link to exact post within a thread Tue 18 Dec 2012 10:10 PM
Programming: General: little problem with SPI at > 1MHz Tue 18 Dec 2012 09:55 PM
MUSHclient: General: Using Multiple Highlights in a Single Word Tue 18 Dec 2012 09:48 PM
Forum: Suggestions: Link to posts instead of just pages Tue 18 Dec 2012 08:54 PM
Forum: Test: test of going to specific post Tue 18 Dec 2012 08:44 PM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Power-saving on Arduino Question Sat 15 Dec 2012 08:03 PM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Arduino Uno I2C with (motorshield) in Matlab Fri 14 Dec 2012 11:35 PM
MUSHclient: General: Making a miniwindow moveable. Fri 14 Dec 2012 07:35 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Triggers & ANSI/XTERM colors Thu 13 Dec 2012 08:38 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Statusbar.exe triggering Mon 10 Dec 2012 11:33 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: simple spell counter Mon 10 Dec 2012 04:52 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: Mouse scrolling in multi-monitor setup Sun 09 Dec 2012 09:04 PM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.86 released Sun 09 Dec 2012 08:59 PM
MUSHclient: MXP and Pueblo: Problem with MXP callbacks Sat 08 Dec 2012 07:17 PM
MUSHclient: General: Custom events Thu 06 Dec 2012 08:58 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Spawn Windows, friends list, and log on exit plugins Thu 06 Dec 2012 08:57 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: [MUSHClient] Blackjack Script for Materia Magica - Help cleaning up my code? Thu 06 Dec 2012 02:59 AM
SMAUG: Compiling the server: Tons of errors compiling Smaugfuss 1.9 on Ubuntu Tue 04 Dec 2012 08:58 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Need little help saving table over quit Tue 04 Dec 2012 02:13 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: RS485 library - issue handling and interrupts Mon 03 Dec 2012 07:23 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Help debugging this plugin? Sun 02 Dec 2012 05:18 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: 'New Activity Flashes Taskbar' causes taskbar to ignore repaint on Windows 8 Tue 27 Nov 2012 07:07 PM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Elapsed Timer Library on Arduino 1.02 Sun 25 Nov 2012 05:51 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: Plugins stopped working Thu 22 Nov 2012 07:35 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: External timer in order to shutdown Thu 15 Nov 2012 12:12 AM
MUSHclient: Miniwindows: TextRectangle Tue 13 Nov 2012 09:07 PM
MUDs: MUD Design Concepts: Compiling Error, SWfote Mon 12 Nov 2012 11:23 PM
SMAUG: SMAUG coding: Issue with blank spacing Mon 12 Nov 2012 04:37 AM
MUSHclient: General: Regular Expression, Match previous word Wed 07 Nov 2012 05:51 AM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Help using ATCP Mapper Mon 05 Nov 2012 07:17 PM
Electronics: Microprocessors: SPI Arduino Slave transmitting data Sun 04 Nov 2012 11:52 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Full text search of a directory tree with boolean matching ... plugin Sun 04 Nov 2012 03:27 AM
MUSHclient: General: Multicolor Triggering Help Sun 04 Nov 2012 01:03 AM
MUSHclient: General: alias inside an alias Sat 03 Nov 2012 10:29 PM
MUDs: MUD Design Concepts: Dear Nick, can you add a gossipping room in this forum? Fri 02 Nov 2012 10:18 AM
MUSHclient: General: Retranslation of ASCII Char to German Umlaut for Screen reader Fri 26 Oct 2012 08:48 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Alias to send color codes in emotes Wed 24 Oct 2012 08:43 PM
MUSHclient: General: Using Wildcards in Alias's Fri 19 Oct 2012 11:15 PM
MUSHclient: General: Creating an alias to toggle a trigger group on/off Fri 19 Oct 2012 05:35 AM
PennMUSH: Running the server: Using an old INDB file Fri 19 Oct 2012 05:33 AM
MUSHclient: Lua: Trouble with a script, need some help Fri 19 Oct 2012 05:32 AM
MUSHclient: General: change world name Wed 17 Oct 2012 08:33 PM
MUSHclient: Suggestions: Frustrating problem. I lost ALL triggers and aliases. Wed 17 Oct 2012 07:09 AM
MUSHclient: General: Apostrophe triggers special characters Tue 16 Oct 2012 11:57 PM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: Problem Sun 14 Oct 2012 03:27 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: ADC register setup using SPI. Sat 13 Oct 2012 09:16 PM
MUSHclient: General: Commands function Fri 12 Oct 2012 11:11 PM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.85 released Thu 11 Oct 2012 03:41 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Problems with atmega328p-pu bootloader Wed 10 Oct 2012 08:11 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Complex math within an alias Wed 10 Oct 2012 05:49 AM
MUSHclient: MXP and Pueblo: Menu issue Mon 08 Oct 2012 10:05 PM
MUDs: Announcements: a noob and his musings(on plug in help an getting players) Mon 01 Oct 2012 09:12 PM
MUSHclient: Plugins: need help with infobox Mon 01 Oct 2012 09:10 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: mushclient and mysql/lua Mon 01 Oct 2012 09:06 PM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.84 released Sun 30 Sep 2012 06:55 AM
MUSHclient: Suggestions: wait.lua error messages Sun 30 Sep 2012 06:20 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: HTML logging disordered Sun 30 Sep 2012 03:12 AM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Materia Magica spellbook plugin Sun 30 Sep 2012 02:47 AM
MUSHclient: Jscript: function AddTriggerEx sciptName is not work in javascript Sat 29 Sep 2012 06:52 AM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.83 released Sat 29 Sep 2012 03:32 AM
Programming: General: Lua 5.2.1 stack corruption Sat 29 Sep 2012 12:08 AM
MUSHclient: Jscript: world.DatabaseLastInsertRowid("dbName") can't get rowid Fri 28 Sep 2012 04:31 AM
MUSHclient: General: Disappearing World Files? Tue 25 Sep 2012 10:43 PM
MUSHclient: Tips and tricks: A clansay alias Sun 23 Sep 2012 09:54 PM
MUSHclient: Announcements: Version 4.82 released Sat 22 Sep 2012 06:39 AM
MUSHclient: MXP and Pueblo: MXP Bug & Question Thu 20 Sep 2012 04:37 AM
MUSHclient: General: Multimonitor multi-window? Thu 20 Sep 2012 04:35 AM
MUSHclient: General: Omit compile errors Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:01 PM
MUSHclient: Miniwindows: How exactly you create window using multiple flags? Wed 19 Sep 2012 09:52 AM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Any Up-to-Date Achaean Autosippers? Tue 11 Sep 2012 06:18 AM
MUSHclient: General: Creating a Tick Timer Using "resettimer" and trigger Tue 11 Sep 2012 12:56 AM
SMAUG: Lua: Designing a Nice Lua Implementation like Aardwolf's Wed 05 Sep 2012 09:02 PM
MUSHclient: General: Session Timer question Tue 04 Sep 2012 11:15 PM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: WindowPosition does not update miniwindow coordinates until after next repaint Tue 04 Sep 2012 09:16 AM
MUSHclient: Plugins: Twisol Plugin Trouble Mon 03 Sep 2012 11:31 PM
Programming: General: MUD Information Mon 03 Sep 2012 11:25 PM
PennMUSH: Running the server: A couple PennMUSH questions Sun 02 Sep 2012 10:08 PM
SMAUG: SMAUG coding: vnum questions Sun 02 Sep 2012 10:05 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Mapper module draw slowness Sat 01 Sep 2012 11:33 PM
MUSHclient: General: Filtering out / altering part of the received text Fri 31 Aug 2012 11:16 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: old zmud script to lua Fri 31 Aug 2012 11:10 PM
MUSHclient: Lua: Help with making a list from table comparisons and output notice Fri 31 Aug 2012 11:07 PM
MUSHclient: Suggestions: change to how movewindow saves x,y position Mon 27 Aug 2012 06:33 AM
SMAUG: Compiling the server: compile or not to compile Mon 27 Aug 2012 06:29 AM
MUDs: General: making a mud Mon 27 Aug 2012 06:28 AM
MUSHclient: Lua: Has anyone re-directed output with Lua? Fri 24 Aug 2012 05:55 AM
MUSHclient: General: Random Disconnects Thu 23 Aug 2012 07:06 AM
MUSHclient: Tips and tricks: How to make window flash as a trigger? Wed 22 Aug 2012 09:07 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Leonardo as ISP Wed 22 Aug 2012 09:06 AM
MUSHclient: Bug reports: hotspot tooltips vanish on mud output Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:46 AM
MUSHclient: Tips and tricks: Help with triggers I think Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:45 AM
MUSHclient: Lua: Having trouble getting a .json file using luasocket (inexperienced with this...) Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:43 AM
MUSHclient: Python: Python loading woes once more! Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:39 AM
MUSHclient: General: Manipulating Commands Before Sending (Without Sending Them First) Tue 21 Aug 2012 01:38 AM
Electronics: Microprocessors: Problem converting bootloader codes Fri 17 Aug 2012 12:43 AM

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