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Attn: MUD Developers
Quoting:
"last year, a grad school classmate of mine died at the age of 38. every student and professor who met Geoff Hollis learned that he was a brilliant scholar, a sharp thinker, and a superb university lecturer.
"but only a handful of his friends knew that geoff was also one hell of a coder. he spent nights as a grad student building his own MUD engine in C - from scratch, with a built-in custom scripting language - just for the fun of it.
"nakedMUD enjoyed several years of regular development and usage from mud designers, before jeff had to shelve it due to his teaching responsibilities.
"when he died, his university server space was wiped without a backup, and all of his source code went with it. i've got the most recent version of nakedMUD (3.8.1), but i'd like to preserve v1.0 to v3.8 in his memory.
"if you happen to have filenames in the format nakedmudv1.0.tar.tgz sitting around on old drives, i'd love to hear from you. i'm building a little source shrine for geoff, so nakedMUD can live on in memory of a kind, gentle soul."
This is quoted from this thread: https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110478104268871710
I saw it here: https://mathstodon.xyz/@vga256@dialup.cafe/110478107338381266
(That's how Mastodon works)
Clickable links in the comments.
- ColinWright 3y agoClickety Click: * https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110478104268871710 https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110478104268871710 * https://mathstodon.xyz/@vga256@dialup.cafe/110478107338381266 https://mathstodon.xyz/@vga256@dialup.cafe/11047810733838126... Much of the material has been found, but some is still missing, and stories would no doubt be welcome.
- zimpenfish 3y agoUpdate from an hour or two ago: update: thank you everyone! thanks to the efforts of @stevestreza@indieweb.social, @crawfordsm@mastodon.social, and @lewiscowles1986@phpc.social the majority of the source has been located