September 1998
- WIRED: Kilers have more fun J C Lawrence
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- WIRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- WIRED: Kilers have more fun Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- WIRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- WIRED: Kilers have more fun Damion Schubert
- WIRED: Kilers have more fun Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- WIRED: Kilers have more fun Damion Schubert
- WIRED: Kilers have more fun Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Encryption of protocols, compression and lag... Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Encryption of protocols, compression and lag... Adam J. Thornton
- Equipment Fit Holly Sommer
- Equipment Fit Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Equipment Fit Holly Sommer
- Equipment Fit pomales
- Equipment Fit Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Equipment Fit Brandon Cline
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- Equipment Fit Chris Gray
- VT-100 and other terminal data J C Lawrence
- Intermud Communication...is it worth it? Ben Greear
- Intermud Communication...is it worth it? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Intermud Communication...is it worth it? Holly Sommer
- Intermud Communication...is it worth it? Ross Nicoll
- Intermud Communication...is it worth it? T. Alexander Popiel
- Intermud Communication...is it worth it? Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Intermud Communication...is it worth it? chris@realm.zfn.uni-bremen.de
- Wild idea.. :) Ben Greear
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- Wild idea.. :) Ben Greear
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- Wild idea.. :) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Wild idea.. :) Adam J. Thornton
- Wild idea.. :) Ben Greear
- Wild idea.. :) Vadim Tkachenko
- Wild idea.. :) Ben Greear
- Wild idea.. :) Vadim Tkachenko
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- [CODE QUESTION] How to encode floats into bytes? Richard Woolcock
- [CODE QUESTION] How to encode floats into bytes? J C Lawrence
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- Equipment Fit, enlightenment Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Adventure on the web J C Lawrence
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- PERL based MUDs J C Lawrence
- Economics: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem J C Lawrence
- Economics: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem Koster, Raph
- Windows->Linux TCP/IP stack performance problems J C Lawrence
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- Windows->Linux TCP/IP stack performance problems Chris Gray
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- OT: Windows-> Linux TCP/IP stack performance problems J C Lawrence
- Off-topic! Windows-> Linux TCP/IP stack performance problems Adam Wiggins
- Equipment fit revisited Andy Cink
- X, Y & Z. Scott Cade
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- Off-topic! Windows-> Linux TCP/IP stack performance problems J C Lawrence
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- cellular automata as universe models James Wilson
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- [off-topic] news! Travis Casey
- [off-topic] news! J C Lawrence
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- Introducing the background hook Ling
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- Introducing the background hook Matt Chatterley
- Off-topic! Off-topic! Windows-> Linux TCP/IP stack performance problems Adam Wiggins
- Lockless DB design (was Fw: lurker emerges) J C Lawrence
- PCCTS->ANTLR J C Lawrence
- MOSIX: Multi-computer Operating System for unIX J C Lawrence
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Hal Black
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- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths James Wilson
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths quzah
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths James Wilson
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths quzah [sotfhome]
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- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths quzah [sotfhome]
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Richard Woolcock
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- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Damion Schubert
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Marc Hernandez
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths J C Lawrence
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- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths quzah [sotfhome]
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Benjamin D. Wiechel
- Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
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- Admin J C Lawrence
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- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Marc Hernandez
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Ryan Prince
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Jo Dillon
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Ryan Prince
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? J C Lawrence
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Damion Schubert
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Andy Cink
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? ##Make Nylander
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Richard Woolcock
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Hal Black
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? J C Lawrence
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Jon A. Lambert
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
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- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
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- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Koster, Raph
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- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Kylotan
- Ugh, IS Diablo a mud? Jon Leonard
- Medievia Koster, Raph
- let's call it a spellcraft Vadim Tkachenko
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam J. Thornton
- let's call it a spellcraft Jon A. Lambert
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft Marc Hernandez
- let's call it a spellcraft Vadim Tkachenko
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam Wiggins
- let's call it a spellcraft T. Alexander Popiel
- let's call it a spellcraft Brandon J. Rickman
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam J. Thornton
- let's call it a spellcraft Brandon J. Rickman
- let's call it a spellcraft Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- let's call it a spellcraft Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
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- let's call it a spellcraft Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- let's call it a spellcraft Jon Leonard
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- let's call it a spellcraft Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- let's call it a spellcraft S. Patrick Gallaty
- let's call it a spellcraft Andy Cink
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam J. Thornton
- let's call it a spellcraft Brandon J. Rickman
- let's call it a spellcraft Travis Casey
- let's call it a spellcraft James Wilson
- let's call it a spellcraft Travis Casey
- let's call it a spellcraft Niklas Elmqvist
- let's call it a spellcraft Koster, Raph
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- let's call it a spellcraft Travis Casey
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam Wiggins
- let's call it a spellcraft Travis Casey
- let's call it a spellcraft Niklas Elmqvist
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam Wiggins
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft quzah [sotfhome]
- let's call it a spellcraft Vadim Tkachenko
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft quzah [sotfhome]
- let's call it a spellcraft Oliver Jowett
- let's call it a spellcraft J C Lawrence
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam Wiggins
- let's call it a spellcraft S. Patrick Gallaty
- let's call it a spellcraft Travis Casey
- let's call it a spellcraft quzah [sotfhome]
- let's call it a spellcraft Vadim Tkachenko
- spell design systems Travis Casey
- [CUSTOM] ScryMUD Source release 1.6.0 Ben Greear
- Spellchecking Richard Woolcock
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- Let's talk about numbers. Jon A. Lambert
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- Let's talk about numbers. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Let's talk about numbers. Jon A. Lambert
- Let's talk about numbers. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Let's talk about numbers. Adam J. Thornton
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- Metroworks JIT for Linux J C Lawrence
- numbers - was spellcraft Orion Henry
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- Game Design Issues (Was: let's call it a spel Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- let's call it a spellcraft Andy Cink
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft Adam J. Thornton
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft Vadim Tkachenko
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft James Wilson
- let's call it a spellcraft Matthew R. Sheahan
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- let's call it a spellcraft Travis Casey
- let's call it a spellcraft Vadim Tkachenko
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Jon A. Lambert
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Kylotan
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Adam Wiggins
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) J C Lawrence
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Adam Wiggins
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Adam J. Thornton
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) J C Lawrence
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
Adam Wiggins wrote:
[Ola: Unix is a mud argument snipped]
> Although I know that this example was chosen largely from silliness, it's
> actually a pretty good point to discuss. Most people wouldn't consider
> UNIX a mud; yet it has most of the mechanics we would associate with one.
> So, why not? Putting aside lists of features for a second, as a player
> I know straight away what's "wrong" with UNIXmud:
Although I obviously agree with you in general, I see no point in admitting
that :). Most muds are clearly made to satisfy the visions of the designers
so a description of UNIX mud's background might clear up some misconceptions
about the system. UNIX started with the OS MULTICS, which was scrapped
because of prohibitive costs. Ken Thompson, who was playing with a spaceship
game, wanted to make his game portable, so he made a operating system based
on MULTICS which eventually became UNIX in 1973. Now, Thompson and his men
could of course not afford to invest all this money in a computer game so
they had their employer finance the project disguised as an operating
system. It is clear, to me anyway, that the computer game has always been
the driving force behind UNIX (albeit not the funding source :).
According to an anonymous source Thompson realized that the new generations
of programmers would never get to experience the joy of MULTICS. If they
could not experience the real thing, the next best thing would be to create
a roleplaying world in which the programmers could get a feeling of the
MULTICS atmosphere. The three was used as a metaphor for life, which is
reflected in the whole structure of the gamingworld. The beginning of life
starts at the root controlled by the God Root. At the time of UNIX's
conception programmers were starting to be invaded by lots of annoying
newbies demanding support. Thompson realized that having these annoying
users in his system would completely ruin the game, so he deliberately
designed the game to appeal only to individuals which would be able find
their own way without pestering the admins with questions. The core of the
mud is the spellsystem called C. In fact, the entire mud is built in this
spellsystem. It is extremely flexible, so in order to balance the system
certain aspects are reserved for trusted wizards. There is also a more
user-friendly, but less efficient (consumes more mana), prototyping
spellsystem called SH. Thompson was overwhelmed by the powerful spellsystem
he and Richie had created and wanted a minimalist system, so he decided to
construct avatars from executing spells. Each executing spell have a unique
ID. Avatars are mutating and any user can have multiple. Some avatars are
robot like, others are under direct user control. Avatars also have
multipresence, meaning they can be located in several locations. Each avatar
also have their own memory, although recent additions does enable reading of
thought.
Of course, as any stockmud, plain UNIX can be somewhat boring. Some
implementations are quite fun though. Our local implementation provides
plenty of games. We have a multi mana server system, which has been a source
of new inventions in the spellsystem. We have a "top ten disk pig" score
that is distributed every time the disk gets full. We have a monster called
Idle Job Killer, which kills disconnected avatars who don't play nice. There
is also a really nasty monster called NFS which really can get you stuck if
you happen to be in the wrong location. The most challenging opponents are
controlled by humans though, especially if you play the subgame "how much
resources can I steal without admin intervention". A more social game is
called "learn about other people" in which users read other peoples mail,
files or simply snoop their screens. The latter is particularly risky and
may lead to a perm death and site ban. A couple of years ago players started
to abuse the system by logging in to other muds through our UNIX mud, our
mud admin got rather pissy about this and it was a banned activity for a
couple of years. I think the policy has changed recently, logging in to
other muds, and even simulating them locally, is allowed if it doesn't
hamper the main mud: UNIX.
> 1. My personal sense of location is very limited. There are three
> major locations; my home directory and its subdirectories, the /tmp
> directory, and the rest of the filesystem. Thus just having seperate
> locations with different names is not enough (note this mostly disqualifies
> irc); they actually have to function differently enough to give the player
> a sense of *being* someplace different.
As an UNIX imp I feel sorry that you don't appreciate the finer points in
the UNIX design philosophy. Of course, no mud can cater for all user
preferences. You have to take the target population into account. Back in
the sixties programmers were used to reading hex dumps and such and
virtually had to visualize the geography of the computer in their own mind
all day long. They spent more time doing this than walking in the streets!
I am certain that if you spent more time staring at your computer screen
(and please, no GUI!) walking directories then you would feel a strong
presence and feel the great joy of traversing the file system, or "climbing
the three". I personally find great pleasure in executing the spell "find",
just to be amazed at the hugeness of the three of life. When I enter a users
home without permission I also feel a bit like intruding, it is almost as
exciting as entering somebody's physical home wondering if they are in there
or not.
> One thing I might mention was that the /tmp directory at my university
> was actually a minor social gathering point. People would download large
> files (game demos, images, sound files) into the /tmp directory because
> they didn't have enough space in their home directories. Then other users
Yep, this is a very popular strategy game. As you may have realized, most
games use restrictions in clever ways. Overcoming those restrictions give
you all the more power as a user. In UNIX your home can only hold a limited
amount of items, which is determined by the branch which it is located in.
Other strategies for freeing up space is stuffing items from your home into
your own mailbox (which quite often is located on another branch). You may
even transport items and spells to other UNIX muds!
> 2. My sense of other players is almost nonexistant. Unless I specifically
> go seeking the information with a 'w' command, finding out who is around
> and what they are doing does not come to me. There could be fifty
> other users in the same directory as me but I'll never know it. I should
> be able to plop myself down somewhere and 'watch the world go by', as
> it were. If this is not the case then I hardly feel like I'm part of
> a changing world, one which is not necessarily revolving around me and
> my character.
The first time I logged on to UNIX mud I asked myself "WHAT??? No
avatars??". This was clearly a mistake on my part. It appears that the
original designers had foreseen the scene overloading problem often seen in
large muds. It was a deliberate design choice that players should not be
bothered with seeing other people unless they were looking. Just imagine how
annoying it would be to have people walking all over "vi" while you are
trying to craft a new spell. Multipresence (avatars staying in more than one
location) would make spell crafting an even more tedious task. Hence they
added the general command "ps" which let you see the present avatars on your
mana server (and how much mana they are consuming) without listing their
exact location. You may however see the trace the avatars leave in the
three, it is readily available with the "ls" command.
> 3. My token/character/avatar is difficult to customize. I get two
> things, really: .plan and .sig. Of course, both of these are quite popular
> for this exact reason.
Yep, but it is primarily intended for guest users. Guests usually get a
predefined setup.
> 4. I have no long-term sense of change for my character. Any changes wrought
> upon it are direct changes made by the admin.
Ah, another misconception. Guests usually don't advance. But regular users
do, they advance by extending their spellsystem. Spell crafting is the
primary activity. There are local variations here, on our system, you get
resources according to what courses you are involved in. The great pain, the
more resources you get :-).
> 5. I have no feeling that there are other things going on elsewhere in the
> world.
Really? I guess you must have been using a very small mud. I get the same
feeling in most text muds. On our systems things happen all the time. The
NFS monster suddenly attacks, the lag monster eats your time, mana servers
fade in and out.. You name it.
UNIX is the most popular scalable mud around. And although some people use
it as an operating system in a business (it is very versatile), my guess is
that most servers are used in a recreational manner by programmers (it's
target population remember?). I'm perplexed by the huge number of mudders
investing hours and hours in getting their Linux up and running just to sit
home hour after hour crafting new spells. I've also noticed that some of our
more eager players enter the labs at about 10pm with a couple of Coke's
playing all night. I guess they are avoiding the crowd of newbies and enjoy
the feeling of power when the consume huyge amounts of mana. They usually
log off at about 8am. As most mudders they probably don't have a real life.
--
Ola
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Koster, Raph
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Koster, Raph
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Jon Leonard
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- After a long absense, a semi-return (and TFD) Nathan F Yospe
- After a long absense, a semi-return (and TFD) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- After a long absense, a semi-return (and TFD) Travis Casey
- After a long absense, a semi-return (and TFD) J C Lawrence
- After a long absense, a semi-return (and TFD) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- [MUD-Dev] apocalypse@pipeline.com
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Marian Griffith
- Room descriptions Orion Henry
- Room descriptions Raph & Kristen Koster
- Room descriptions Hal Black
- Room descriptions apocalypse@pipeline.com
- Room descriptions Travis Casey
- Room descriptions Hal Black
- Room descriptions apocalypse@pipeline.com
- Room descriptions Hal Black
- Room descriptions Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Room descriptions J C Lawrence
- Room descriptions apocalypse@pipeline.com
- Room descriptions Hal Black
- Room descriptions J C Lawrence
- Room descriptions Nathan F Yospe
- Room descriptions Hal Black
- Room descriptions Richard Woolcock
- Room descriptions #Make Nylander
- Room descriptions quzah [sotfhome]
- Room descriptions Richard Woolcock
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions J C Lawrence
- Room descriptions Nathan F Yospe
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions S. Patrick Gallaty
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions S. Patrick Gallaty
- Room descriptions Travis S. Casey
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions ApplePiMan@aol.com
- Room descriptions Jon A. Lambert
- Room descriptions Travis S. Casey
- Room descriptions ApplePiMan@aol.com
- Room descriptions Jon A. Lambert
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions Nathan F Yospe
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Matt Chatterley
- Room descriptions J C Lawrence
- Room descriptions Travis Casey
- Room descriptions Chris Gray
- Room descriptions Adam J. Thornton
- Room descriptions Chris Gray
- Room descriptions Chris Gray
- Room descriptions Koster, Raph
- Room descriptions Adam Wiggins
- MCP/2.1 client-server message protocol... Andrew Wilson
- EC Habitats Beta Program URL... Andrew Wilson
- Autogenerated room descriptions T. Alexander Popiel
- Autogenerated room descriptions J C Lawrence
- Autogenerated room descriptions Nathan F Yospe
- Autogenerated room descriptions Richard Woolcock
- Autogenerated room descriptions S. Patrick Gallaty
- [CUSTOM] ScryMUD is opening for Beta on Oct 1! Ben Greear
- A little help Dale Hoffman
- A little help Robert Woods
- A little help Ling
- A little help Marc Bowden
- A little help Ling
- A little help Richard Woolcock
- A little help Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- A little help Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- A little help T. Alexander Popiel
- A little help chris@realm.zfn.uni-bremen.de
- A little help Marc Bowden
- A little help Koster, Raph
- A little help Koster, Raph
- Mud adverts, was: ScryMUD is opening for Beta on Oct 1! Richard Woolcock
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Adam Wiggins
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) James Wilson
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Adam Wiggins
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Koster, Raph
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Koster, Raph
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Koster, Raph
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Koster, Raph
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Simulation (Was Room descriptions) Koster, Raph
- UO lawsuit (fwd) Adam Wiggins
- UO lawsuit (fwd) Koster, Raph
- Unix is a mud (Ugh, IS Diablo a mud?) J C Lawrence
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Ben Greear
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Bruce Mitchener
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Marc Bowden
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Chris Gray
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Ben Greear
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. James Wilson
- Telnet Echo OFF/ON commands and other thingies.. Chris Gray