[kageneko]

Ah, such memories. MUDs were the first reason I almost flunked out of college. Especially when I started running my own. Gonna read this so much.

Especially since I'm building a MUD again, but using Discord and Slack as the clients.

[tagami]

Professor Bartle is quite approachable. Somewhere in my archive is the original code for his MUD1 that he forwarded to me.

Update: I'll have to ask if I can link the zip, but here is the opening text:

;Copyright (C) 1983 by ;Richard Bartle & Roy Trubshaw, ;Essex University, Colchester. CO4 3SQ. ; ; This software is furnished on the understanding that ;it may be used and or copied only with the inclusion of this ;notice. No title or ownership of this software is hereby ;transferred. The information in this software is subject to ;change without notice. No responsibility is assumed for the ;use or reliability of this software. name valley persona mud @txtcbt @txtlev @txthrs *rooms 96

[creamytaco]

It's on Github and multiple other places.

[rtrubshaw11]

You're also going to need the Essex BCPL compiler and a DECSystem10 (or an emulation thereof) running TOPS10!

Happy days!

Roy Trubshaw

[mdaniel]

I heard the acronym was "multi undergraduate destroyer" although I'm thankful I dodged that bullet only to get taken out by working too much at my "part time" job :-/

[bg4]

Coding a MUD is what switched me from Health Science to Computer Science in 1996. Though, in hindsight, I wish I'd gotten a double major in both subjects.