ETHER

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* Ether, version 1.0 *
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Based on Tele-Arena 5.56d Copyright (c) 2011 Elwynor Technologies

Ether 1.0 by Ron Kinney

Send comments, bugs, issues, patches, ideas, etc to "ronkinney@gmail.com"
The Ether Home Page is at "http://tdod.org/ether"

General Info

Ether is a Java application that allows the user to run the online
multiplayer fantasy RPG, Tele-Arena, developed in the 1990s by Sean
Ferrel for the MajorBBS bulletin board system. This distribution does
not include the copyright data files. Ether, itself, is just an mud
engine that has the capabilities of reading in data from the original
Tele-Arena distribution. The user has the capabilities of creating
his/her own data files and building their own world which may or may
not resemble Tele-Arena.

This distribution, in itself, is incomplete, since many of the elements
of the game are owned by Elwynor Technologies.

To legally run the Tele-Arena data files, I'd assume that the user
will have to own a legal copy of Tele-Arena for the MajorBBS system.
This shouldn't prevent the user to run "Ether" as their own MUD
system. Data files can be created by the user to create their own
world. As of the initial release, the only world data files that
exist are those from Tele-Arena.

This version of Ether will run on Mac OSX, Windows, and Unix.

Running

Java is required to run Ether. Make sure the JVM is in your path.
For best results, use the Sun JVM 1.6, as that's what Ether was
compiled in.

Microsoft Windows:
  Use "run.bat"

Mac OSX, Linux, Other:
  Use "run.sh"

The command line is:
  java -DTaConfigFile="config/ta.properties" -jar ether.jar

Data Files

The following files are required to get Ether working. These files
can be generated by the "AreaBuilder" application or generated by
hand. The "README.txt" file in the AreaBuilder application describes
how these files can be generated.

These files go in the "area" directory:
These files go in the "data" directory:

AreaBuilder

AreaBuilder is an application that converts the Tele-Arena 5.56d MajorBBS
data files into a form that the Ether engine can read. In the future, I'd
like to integrate this into the Ether engine, but this is how it works for
now.

Running

Java is required to run AreaBuilder. Make sure the JVM is in your path. For
best results, use the Sun JVM 1.6, as that's what AreaBuilder was compiled in.

The following data files must be placed in the "data" directory:
Microsoft Windows:
  Use "run.bat"

Mac OSX, Linux, Other:
  Use "run.sh"

The command line is:
  java -DTaConfigFile="config/ta.properties" -jar AreaBuilder.jar

Output

After running AreaBuilder and getting no errors, the following
files are produced and placed in the "build" directory: