[Coldstuff] Need your help.

[B. Jack]

>Hello, I am a new user. Could you tell me the architecture of the Cold 
>software >project? Thanks for your time. Best regards,Helen

There are probably three najor parts of the Cold system:
1. coldcc    - standalone compiler
2. genesis   - driver (think of it as a "MUD-OS kernel")
3. textdump  - this is the core that runs everything that exists in your
               project

First you need to install the genesis and coldcc programs from the sources 
available from the download page.  What you do next depends on what you want 
to do:

1.  You might just use the exisitng ColdCore software in which case once you 
download the core and run coldcc on it you're in business.  Just follow the 
instructions that come with ColdCore for setting up the initial game 
environment (like making yourself an administrator) and away you go.  There 
are also a few other cores you might wish to use (such as ColdHell).

2.  Make your own core.  This is what I did for Anime Mayhem.  By far the 
most nontrivial option but the best one for making a custom world that fits 
to your exact specifications.  You might try hacking and/or slashing an 
existing core to make it do what you want but if you have a lot of special 
feature nonexistant in the existing core the question becomes "where to 
hack?  where to slash?" and can sometimes be harder than making a new core 
from scratch (becuase the ColdCore itself is badly documented).

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