Even back in the 90s when I mudded heavily I never used tintin, I was always a tinyfugue user. Then I switched to zmud and now I use mudlet. Good luck in your quest!

What error messages are yo getting?

Back in the day I used tintin and even got a stripped down copy working on android. That experience I don't recommend.

What exactly are you trying to do? I coded an entire Miriani sound pack back in like 2014 because I didn't want to use Windows, and so I got pretty decent at it.

The format is

#action {some text from mud goes here}
{what to do on your end}

Example

#action {Tom walks in}
{slap tom}

#action {%1 walks in}
{slap %1}