# TMI-2 / TMI-2 (The Mud Institute)

> slug: `tmi2` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40220`

A historically significant, widely-copied English-language LPMud mudlib from 1992-1996 whose std/ base classes, command-soul dispatch, and /adm/-rooted security-daemon layout were inherited by a large family of later mudlibs (this project's own catalog refers to a 'TMI-2/Falcon family' of descendants). This port is the 'famous TMI-2 quad' release itself: a landing zone with a general-purpose bulletin board, an Intermud-3 network-discussion room, a MudOS-driver-discussion room, a bug-report room, and a link down into /d/Fooland, plus the full TMI-2 wizard toolset (file/object inspection commands, the channel system, a student/teacher tutorial subsystem, FTP and HTTP daemons, and a resolv_str/resolv_ref scripting mini-language for wizard reference variables) and character creation across 13 playable races (dwarf, elf, gnome, human, orc, troll, halfling, sprite, shadow, ent, siren, skeleton, zombie). This collection's other TMI-2 1.4alpha-descended archive, mortremains, shares this lib's own credit line ("Truilkan@TMI"). Booting this lib also opens a real outbound connection to the public Intermud-3 router network, matching genuine upstream behavior rather than a bug.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/tmi2/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/tmi2/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/tmi2/tmi2.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/tmi2
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/tmi2/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/tmi2/NOTES.md

## Run natively with FluffOS

1. Build a current FluffOS driver from https://github.com/fluffos/fluffos
   (native `build` / `build-debug`; see that repo's docs).
2. Download and unzip `tmi2.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/tmi2/`).
3. From the unzipped lib directory, ensure `config.fluffos` points
   `mudlib directory` at this tree (the checked-in file may contain a
   maintainer-local absolute path — edit it to your extract path).
4. Start the driver:

```bash
/path/to/fluffos/build/src/driver config.fluffos
```

5. Connect a UTF-8 MUD client to `127.0.0.1:40220`.

- Admin / wizard login: see this lib's README (no seeded account recorded)
- If you host this on a public network, change the published default
  admin password before opening the port.

## Machine-readable catalog

- Site-wide catalog: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/games.json
- Site-wide LLM overview: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/llms.txt
- This file: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/tmi2/llms.txt