I am also a Matt, and I also played and administered muds at around the same time (although ours were Envy-based rather than ROM based), and even today I have a fondness for Telnet and terminals. Awesome stuff!
Diku was probably the grandfather of MUDs; I think almost every MUD was based on it. I'm glad that Matt let me time travel a little bit back to my youth and think about MUDs :)
I am also a Matt, and I also played and administered muds at around the same time (although ours were Envy-based rather than ROM based), and even today I have a fondness for Telnet and terminals. Awesome stuff!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing :)
Matt playing MUD? Gold
Diku was probably the grandfather of MUDs; I think almost every MUD was based on it. I'm glad that Matt let me time travel a little bit back to my youth and think about MUDs :)
Glad to give you that nostalgia buzz!
I didn't know Bruce Dickinson was a C++ programmer.
Thank you, this was entertaining as well informative!
For backwards compatibility, can you beat Fortran? Still can compile early 70s FORTRAN IV code…
Oh, lovely, DikuMUD. The source code license that will take you to court for having a donation link for server costs in your game.