RetroMUD

Psychoticdesires · Post by **Psychoticdesires** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:25 pm

is anyone here on RetroMUD? If you are what is your name on it? Level? Race? Guild?

I am Mehz the Psionicist Dragonian at level 16

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:26 pm

I used to code MUD landscapes, monsters, and the like way back when. But I'm not part of any MUD now.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:37 pm

I keep considering hosting a MUD, but no. Not on any.

Humbug · Post by **Humbug** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:16 pm

Havent played MUDs in ages, guess I'm spoiled with MMORPGs.

Sam_Charette · Post by **Sam_Charette** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:19 am

rkolter wrote:I used to code MUD landscapes, monsters, and the like way back when. But I'm not part of any MUD now.

Ditto, though it was more MUSHes than MUDs for me. I once logged into one years after having stopped and I remember thinking . o O (This is soooooo archaic)

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:04 am

Sam_Charette wrote:
rkolter wrote:I used to code MUD landscapes, monsters, and the like way back when. But I'm not part of any MUD now.
Ditto, though it was more MUSHes than MUDs for me. I once logged into one years after having stopped and I remember thinking . o O (This is soooooo archaic)

Really? Heh.

I was one of the wizards on TinyCWRU. Been a wizard on a lot of mushes. Wrote my own MUSE code - although the original site (FlatEarth and FlatEarth II) are down, a bunch of sites still use FEmuse code or adaptations from it.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 7:53 am

Gah! MUD!

Must.. resist..
I was so addicted at one point I was playing MUD through telnet at school - hooray for computer-illiterate teachers, who thought I was just dicking around in notepad..

I'd like to put together my own MUD. Just because.

Sam_Charette · Post by **Sam_Charette** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:06 pm

Pimpette wrote:Gah! MUD!

Must.. resist..
I was so addicted at one point I was playing MUD through telnet at school - hooray for computer-illiterate teachers, who thought I was just dicking around in notepad..

I'd like to put together my own MUD. Just because.

I'd host that

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:23 am

Sam_Charette wrote:
Pimpette wrote:Gah! MUD!

Must.. resist..
I was so addicted at one point I was playing MUD through telnet at school - hooray for computer-illiterate teachers, who thought I was just dicking around in notepad..

I'd like to put together my own MUD. Just because.

I'd host that

Sweet.
Now if I could only figure out how to make one, I'd be set

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:35 am

There's plenty of books on the subject. Also looks like there's lots of people here you could ask.

Psychoticdesires · Post by **Psychoticdesires** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:45 pm

Vorticus wrote:There's plenty of books on the subject. Also looks like there's lots of people here you could ask.

yeah. That is surprising. Wouldn't hosting a MUD be like horribly hard?

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:12 pm

I never played a MUD. I'm a still recovering chat-RPG addict. And I can't believe how much time I wasted doing that. Especially when there were no dice involved.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:20 pm

I prefer the lack of dice in roleplaying, myself. But I too am spoiled by MMORPGs.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:42 pm

It's a lot easier to pick up girls in a tavern if you get to decide what you look like. And by decide I mean type descriptively. None of this avatar.gif roleplay chat. *scoffs in Sortelli's general scoff-locus*

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:21 pm

Silly head, I do get to choose what my avatar looks like. Every girl's crazy for a sharp dressed slimy eyeball squid monster.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 8:29 pm

That's true and I've seen it. I didn't mean you weren't able to choose your avatar. It was just a general value judgement of textual chat roleplaying vs "value-added" textual chat roleplaying with little avatar thingies. For some reason I was associating you with the latter.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:36 pm

I like having the pictures... and you call yourself an artist pleh!

Sam_Charette · Post by **Sam_Charette** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:25 am

Pimpette wrote:
Sam_Charette wrote:I'd host that
Sweet.
Now if I could only figure out how to make one, I'd be set

I'll take a look around for some different MUD sources, though if you have a particular flavour you prefer let me know. I'll probably set up Diku MUD, if only because it was the most popular at the time that I was playing

My only request: You MUST create the box

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:33 am

psychoticdesires wrote:
Vorticus wrote:There's plenty of books on the subject. Also looks like there's lots of people here you could ask.
yeah. That is surprising. Wouldn't hosting a MUD be like horribly hard?

It's actually amazingly simple. A posix compliant box, a c compiler, and a static IP is about all you need. Oh, and some imagination.

Psychoticdesires · Post by **Psychoticdesires** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:58 am

rkolter wrote:
psychoticdesires wrote:
Vorticus wrote:There's plenty of books on the subject. Also looks like there's lots of people here you could ask.
yeah. That is surprising. Wouldn't hosting a MUD be like horribly hard?
It's actually amazingly simple. A posix compliant box, a c compiler, and a static IP is about all you need. Oh, and some imagination.

oooooooohhhh. *eyes widen* I wanna try!