I managed to get my own empire to fit locally on my 5mb (4mb/1mb) amiga 500 back in the day when developing MUDs. my approach was a little bit different - all

I managed to get my own empire to fit locally on my 5mb (4mb/1mb) amiga 500 back in the day when developing MUDs. my approach was a little bit different - all strings were shared with reference counts, and were copied on write. it took a while to boot and load the world, but once it was loaded it worked well. that was still a little bit too big, so paging was introduced, which made it run quite nicely in what little ram I had at the time.