Re: Sating "good old code discussion"
Tom Whiting <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:59:45 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.games.devel.mud.rom |
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| 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". :) -- ROM mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe here ->>> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom