MUDs (Multi User Dungeons)

[Miv]

I was thinking about MUDs the other day and thought about how nice it would have been to play on a Pandora w/ wifi. I half wish online gaming never kicked off like it did so we could still be playing MUDs now.


Does anyone still play or know of any active, good, servers?

 

[TrashyMG]

Not sure active.. but just stumbled on this..


Cthulhu Mud

 

[Miv]

Actually new idea, would anyone be interested in setting up/running one? (I can host, I just lack in the creativity department)

 

[TrashyMG]

Yeah I have very good dedicated hosting myself, I was planning on hosting some Pandora specific games when the time came.

 

[TrashyMG]

Yeah I have very good dedicated hosting myself, I was planning on hosting some Pandora specific games when the time came.


I too also lack much in the creative process.. but man I can grep and awk like a mofo.

 

[Asiyura]

There are loads of MUD/MOO servers still active with hundreds of players.


I played a lot on Iron Realms Entertainment games but Ikaruga, Zelda, 3D Dot Game Heroes, [edit]life[/edit] and minecraft kept me away from it, so my characters have been wiped.


They're even in the process of launching a new sci-fi game.


I think that as long as the MMORPGs aren't as well written and don't give as much freedom than MUDs and MOOs, those two genre will keep a strong userbase.


Moreover, the MOO and MUD clients don't need overpriced hardware to run

edit : For Mac users, one of the best client is Atlantis or telnet .

 

[skeezix]

The MUD Connector is still up, I think.


MUME (Multi User Middle Earth) is still around and 'popular' (in so much as MUDs can be popular these days)


Iron Realms make a living running 4 or 5 MUDs that look pretty good; I've often thought about getting into one for old times sake, but never quite get around to it.. they take up as much time as a MMORPG


IFmud is still popular with the interactive fiction author crowd.


BatMUD still around and has a fancy java client (almost runs on the Pandora)


Building 'old school' telnet based mud clients works fine; running MUDs on the Pandora would be fine as well .. I was writing my own MUDs and running some old lp and diku's a million years ago, they ran great on machines a fraction the performance of a Pandora


One of the first things I did on my Pandora dev board a year or two back was to log into a MUD .. at the time was over usbnet, but the Pandora's wifi (assuming it works for you) would be plenty sufficient for a text MUD


jeff

 

[chosen]

Give this MUD a try: http://nanvaent.org/

 

[may88]

Yeah I have very good dedicated hosting myself, I was planning on hosting some Pandora specific games when the time came.


I too also lack much in the creative process.. but man I can grep and awk like a mofo.

| sed -e "s/mof/pr/"

wash your mouth out.

The MUD Connector is still up, I think.


<snip> but the Pandora's wifi (assuming it works for you) would be plenty sufficient for a text MUD


jeff

Figures that you'd know this.


Does the Pandora make the modem sounds when it connects at this speed? I guess you could play a .mp3/ogg or something.


Regards,


Me!

 

[skeezix]

(Aging myself) -- I really liked the 300bps connect sound-sequence; a really nice tone The later '*pong*' noises for high speed modems was really goofy


(Yes I ran a BBS, yes ,I ran a MUD, yes I made vt52 and ANSI screens for BBSes )


jeff

 

[WizardStan]

If nothing else, you can usually just telnet into a mud. I'm pretty sure telnet is installed on the Pandora by default, and if it's not it really should be.