ROM (MUD)

ROM (MUD)

ROM is a MUD codebase derived from Merc, which is based on DikuMUD. Russ Taylor (Alander) released Rom 2.3 in 1993. In 1994 he formed the Rom Consortium with his then-wife Gabrielle Taylor (Satin/Antoinette) and their close friend Brian Moore (Zump).

Aardwolf, one of the most popular MUD games in the late 1990s, used version ROM 2.4. [Harvnb|mudservices.com|1998]

The most current publicly available version of Rom is [http://www.rom.org/download/ 2.4b6] ,Citation
last=Turkington
first=Garry
url=http://web.archive.org/web/19991012165915/www.hypercube.org/tess/rom/faq/section1.html#1.1
title=Section 1 - The Basics
year=1999
date=1999-10-12 developers: Russ Taylor, Brian Moore and Gabrielle Taylor] which was released in May 1998. "ROMolc" is an unofficial port of the popular online creation add-on, and is distributed with the package and as an add-on.

Athen

Rom 4.1, also known as Athen 1.1, is the current private Rom source. There are no plans for its public release, and only three muds have permission to run the Athen code.Fact|date=March 2008

One of these muds is [http://hypercube.org/rh Rehobaom's Legacy] , which was once called Tesseract. It was founded by Gabrielle with Jay B. Kesten (ShapeShifter) and is now run by her with Tomohiko Tanabe (Jequel). Russ is still present but far less active.Fact|date=March 2008

The second, [http://rom.org Rom II] , is derived from Russ's original game, and run by Brian Moore. Well known as Rivers of MUD, this version has been well maintained, ad free, and free for use since its beginning. Rivers of MUD was shut down at midnight on March 31, 2006, due to lack of interest on part of the implementors. The implementors [http://www.rom.org left a note] on the web page describing some of the difficulties encountered during the MUD's last few years.Fact|date=March 2008

The third, [http://kycor.org Natural Selection] , is run by Garry Turkington (Corloth/Banton), who wrote the original [http://hypercube.org/tess/rom/faq Rom FAQ] .

Citations

References

*Citation
last=mudservices.com
first=
url=http://web.archive.org/web/19980127114524/www.mudservices.com/home/gateway.html
title=Gateway to the Muds Of MudServices.Com
year=1998
date=1998-01-27 "Type: ROM 2.4+OLC+Mobprogs ... Date Opened: 12/01/96 ... 170+ users."


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