I was so excited when I found that my favorite MUD client would compile under Win32 that I went out and downloaded the source and the CygWin32 package immediately.  Much to my dismay, I discovered that CygWin32 wouldn't compile anything... not even "Hello World".  I then spent some time kicking at it, and two days later I had the compiler working.

Then I discovered that the unix/Config file was wrong, using a different variable name than the one used by unix/tfconfig.  Also a variable either left out of unix/Config or missing from the CygWin32 configuration for BASH was causing problems.  After fishing through the source I found the changes I needed to make, and soon had a working copy of TF!

Wishing to share this with the world, I quickly (about two hours) hacked out an installer using the WISE installer package which does everything a non-sophisticated user could want.  And here you have the results!

At last I have solved the no-scrollback-under-win95 problem!!!

Hidden within the Win32 API are functions to resize console screen buffers. I added such support and allowd selection through an environment variable. Please test this all out for me!

Installer Relase history

Nov 7, 1997

Initial public release.

Nov 8, 1997

Flaws in previous release discovered and repaired.

Nov 21, 1997

Upgraded to version 4.0 alpha 3 and applied my console-resize patch.

Nov 26, 1997

Seem to have lost a webserver... relocated.

Dec 29, 1997

Updated version to 4.0 alpha 4
Trying to work with Andy Satori to coordinate our efforts.

Download TinyFugue

TinyFugue is available in several forms:

Origional Source

From http://ftp.tcp.com/pub/mud/Clients/tf/

Win32 Binary

The most recent version is available here (612K) in a self-installer.

Patched win32 sources (with scrollback)

You can get the patches in two ways: Full Source (452K) and just the changed files (21k)

Other sources

Some other folks are working on the Win32 problems as well:

• Andy Satori has a Win32 version with different patches applied. you can get it of the web at http://www.randomc.com/~hawkmoon/

Let me know of other binary versions and mirrors out there.