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Newbie Joined: 10 Jul 2023 Posts: 5

Intellectual property rights must be respected.

With that in mind:
Option 1
Leverage AI to optimize the existing codebase—adapting it for new operating systems and 4K displays, eliminating various stability-related bugs, and adding support for character sets (such as GBK, though UTF-8 support would be ideal). Release CMUD4 as an update, charging a fee of $9.99. This would bring back a large number of legacy users and generate commercial revenue. I’d bet good money that people would pay for it.

Option 2
Start from scratch.
Mike Potter possesses the core design philosophy behind CMUD. While his programming skills may be exceptional, they might not stand out quite as much when compared against modern AI tools. (I recently saw a claim on YouTube—perhaps a bit of an exaggeration—that many senior programmers at Microsoft and Google no longer write code themselves.)
Abandon proprietary commercial components and embrace the open-source community. Shed the baggage of the past. With the powerful assistance of AI, launch an entirely new CMUD4.
It would feature native UTF-8 support, support for mounting various character sets, compatibility with modern operating systems, and potentially cross-platform support. It would boast a superior UI design, retain the robust capabilities of ZScript, and perhaps even offer native support for Lua.
Build it, open-source it, and set up a donation channel.

It may be unrealistic to expect Mike Potter to devote his full time and energy to updating CMUD; however, consider this: if he were to utilize a few AI agents to offload 90% of the repetitive grunt work—requiring him only to contribute his most valuable asset: his "ideas"—he could effectively bring CMUD up to date. Why wouldn't he?

One additional suggestion: If the plan is *not* to open-source the project, CMUD4 should ideally offer users a three-month trial period to gather extensive feedback before the official release.

Newbie Joined: 29 Apr 2011 Posts: 7

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2026 10:12 am

You can run multiple instances from the same install folder
I have never tried multiple installations, though.

Beginner Joined: 22 Nov 2025 Posts: 20

I'd love to see upgrades, especially those which address the TERRIBLE window management and functionality. Eg., moving buttons is something I WANT to do but cannot deal with the headache of the button doing incredibly f*cked-up things to the display where the button moved is WAAAAAY over to one side of nowhere. Or have different fonts in different windows (if this is already a thing I cannot find the setting).

Or, at last, having the map & database fixed, or even have the ability to use dbvars as well as/instead of the other, broken, thing.

I have no real desire to use anything else as the mapper really is the stand-out feature.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 3:44 pm

Fonts in windows is a thing, via the styles tab.
Click in the window you want to change the preferences of before clicking prefs to ensure you are editing the right file.
It should mention the window name along the title bar of the popup window.

dbvars (aka json variables) work fine as well, though the oracle based database, not so much.