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by hombre_fatal 342 days ago
I started playing Balzhur 5 years ago to practice Spanish.

Ended up befriending a blind guy from Venezuela and wondering if most people still playing MUDs might be blind.

I logged on a few weeks ago and noticed he still plays, but I forgot the commands to do anything so I never left him a message.

There's also:

- rlmud.org 23 https://www.reinosdeleyenda.es/ -- Still relatively popular for a MUD in Spanish

- mud.simauria.org 23 http://www.simauria.org/ -- This game was cute and quaint 5 years ago but now you can't get past the email verification anymore. I've messaged the admin email for this site a few times over the years asking if I can archive the server code but I don't think anyone ever receives it

- cyberlife.es 7777 https://www.cyberlife.es/ -- Logged into this just a few weeks ago to test charset support on my hobby mud client. It's a real life Madrid-like world mostly geared towards roleplaying I think (no combat). When I logged in as Sindulfo, someone said my name sounded like a butler and if there also existed a Condulfo. Was kinda funny to chat with them.

Sucks to know the source code for these servers will all get lost forever.

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On Cyberlife, there's more than Madrid, but you need to get a vehicle.

Also, on MUDs, I do the same as a native Spanish speaker but in English, with Cybersphere, as reading almost technical English it's just "Tuesday" to me.