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Multi-User Dungeon – British Legends

18 points by max0563 12y ago

DonHopkins 12y ago
Here's some notes I wrote down on how to connect to Essex University via an ARPANET gateway, log in to Essex University, and run MUD! I must have been about 15 at the time. I wrote it on one page of a Zork map, as you can see. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/EssexMUDLogin.jpg http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/EssexMUDLogin.jpg Thanks a lot to Richard A. Bartle and Michael Lawrie for sharing! Here are the instructions and some notes to explain what the commands mean: MUD: Multi User Dungeon @O 42 -- This was the old TIP command to open a connection to an NCP host id #42 (NCP host IDs were 8 bits. The TIP command to connect to a host was later changed to @L. See "User's Guide to the Terminal IMP" at http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA014398 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDo... . IMP 42 was in London -- see http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien42.txt http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien42.txt ) %CON ESX TORUS EPSS 52200300 -- That's a command to the gateway to connect to Essex University in the UK. LOG 1776,1776 -- That logs you into the guest account for Americans to play MUD. Password BUZBY TY GUID.TXT -- That types out the intro guide to MUD. RU DSKB:MUD[2011,2653] -- That runs MUD. K/P or K/B Logs off
- dang 12y ago
  That's so great. Who was Eliot? :)
  - DonHopkins 12y ago
    Eliot lived in Northern Virginia, had the user name ELIOT@AI (an MIT AI lab tourist account), and I think his dad worked for the FBI.
- paul2520 12y ago
  Any chance you still have GUID.txt?
dvanduzer 12y ago
Aaaaaand, my personal favorite long-running virtual world, Federation is still around: http://ibgames.net/ http://ibgames.net/
mickeyp 12y ago
I miss MUDs. I remember writing a sophisticated bot to farm mobs (mobiles; monsters) for me and my friends so I could watch TV whilst it was grinding away at the game. Great times.

3 ms·

Multi-User Dungeon – British Legends

18 points by max0563 12y ago

DonHopkins 12y ago
Here's some notes I wrote down on how to connect to Essex University via an ARPANET gateway, log in to Essex University, and run MUD! I must have been about 15 at the time. I wrote it on one page of a Zork map, as you can see. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/EssexMUDLogin.jpg http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/EssexMUDLogin.jpg Thanks a lot to Richard A. Bartle and Michael Lawrie for sharing! Here are the instructions and some notes to explain what the commands mean: MUD: Multi User Dungeon @O 42 -- This was the old TIP command to open a connection to an NCP host id #42 (NCP host IDs were 8 bits. The TIP command to connect to a host was later changed to @L. See "User's Guide to the Terminal IMP" at http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA014398 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDo... . IMP 42 was in London -- see http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien42.txt http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien42.txt ) %CON ESX TORUS EPSS 52200300 -- That's a command to the gateway to connect to Essex University in the UK. LOG 1776,1776 -- That logs you into the guest account for Americans to play MUD. Password BUZBY TY GUID.TXT -- That types out the intro guide to MUD. RU DSKB:MUD[2011,2653] -- That runs MUD. K/P or K/B Logs off
- dang 12y ago
  That's so great. Who was Eliot? :)
  - DonHopkins 12y ago
    Eliot lived in Northern Virginia, had the user name ELIOT@AI (an MIT AI lab tourist account), and I think his dad worked for the FBI.
- paul2520 12y ago
  Any chance you still have GUID.txt?
dvanduzer 12y ago
Aaaaaand, my personal favorite long-running virtual world, Federation is still around: http://ibgames.net/ http://ibgames.net/
mickeyp 12y ago
I miss MUDs. I remember writing a sophisticated bot to farm mobs (mobiles; monsters) for me and my friends so I could watch TV whilst it was grinding away at the game. Great times.