Re: Sating "good old code discussion"

Tom Whiting <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:59:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.mud.rom
Message-ID <20061027225945.396979@ltn-home>
Can't forget mudmagic (www.mudmagic.com) , one of the older resources.
There's a few out there that are still around and in existance, run by old=
 timers that are just not ready to get into the MMORPG thing yet (though=
 I've started to convert slowly;)) .



> Daniel wrote:
>> Then again, there may be one or two of us who are completely new
>> to the list and have no idea what the purpose, resources,
>> options, etc. might be.
>>
>> Perhaps the more experienced members here could enlighten us?
>>
> The purpose of this list is to support the ROM distribution. If ROM
> were released in this century, then this list would likely be a web-
> based forum. :)
>
>
> Sadly, most of the old resources are no longer. Here are some
> snippets:
>
> http://www.algonet.se/~rnen/mud/nfcode.html
>
> http://thevedic.net/mud/new/
>
> http://islands.freehosting.net/snippets.html
>
> http://olc.wolfstream.net/
>
> http://the-infinite.org/archive/
>
> http://ftp.game.org/cgi-bin/directory?/pub/mud
>
>
> these two are new, but promising:
>
> http://www.mudbytes.net/
>
> http://www.mudsnippets.net/
>
>
> and some general (required) reading:
>
> http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/index.shtml
>
> http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/
>
>
> There is a glaring omission above, but I'll not promote
> psychopaths. :) And, btw, if you're getting list related spam, it
> may because he's seen fit to include 'ROM snippets' that are
> complete posts from this list, headers and all. Certainly, without
> my permission.
>
>
> As far as options, the most common recommendation on this list is:
>
> http://www.flugh.com/quickmud/
>
> There are many other derivatives, including my own. I suspect the
> quietude here is largely due to new IMPs starting out further down
> the road.
>
> Still, I've never found these new-fangled fora to be as friendly,
> helpful, or knowledgeable as the folks here, and we did have some
> good times. My thanks to all, especially Gabrielle, Brian and Russ.
>
>
> As always,
> Sandy
>
>
> PS: Sounds a bit of a eulogy, doesn't it? But you did say "sating",
> not "starting". :)
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