ROM (MUD)
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ROM is a MUD
codebase derived from Merc
, which is based on DikuMUD
. Russ "Alander" Taylor released Rom 2.3 in 1993.
The most current publicly available version of Rom is 2.4b6, which was released in May 1998.
MUD
A MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
codebase derived from Merc
Merc (MUD)
Merc is a MUD engine derived from Copper, which in turn was based on DikuMUD. First released in March 1991, DikuMUD served as the basis for many later MUDs....
, which is based on DikuMUD
DikuMUD
DikuMUD is a multiplayer text-based role-playing game, which is a type of MUD. It was written in 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Staerfeldt at DIKU —the department of computer science at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen,...
. Russ "Alander" Taylor released Rom 2.3 in 1993.
The most current publicly available version of Rom is 2.4b6, which was released in May 1998.