# Anyone used to play MUDS?
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314
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**Created:** [February 20, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314 "2017-02-20T01:07:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/1 "2017-02-20T01:07:02Z")
These were popular around 1990, multi user dungeons. LP MUDS used to use an interprative object oriented C for the game, and we’re purely text based like the old games like Zork.
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### Author:  [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/2 "2017-02-20T01:12:58Z")
Back in those dark ages, decent Internet was basically only easily available at colleges, so many a bored sys admin or cs grad student would host a MUD on a Unix box. Players from around the world would telnet in to play and chat.
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### Author:  [@Taisiakat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Taisiakat)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/3 "2017-02-20T01:18:31Z")
I did muds,moos,muqs
In fact that is how I met my husband indirectly.
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### Author:  [@Clark](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Clark)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/4 "2017-02-20T01:20:15Z")
At one time I played on a few different muds, they were very fun. I recall one of them that was PvP, I sucked at it as everyone who was good at it used scripts/triggers to handle the actual PvP combat, I recall going into a square/hex and seeing nothing but a wall of text roll by far to fast to read and then me being transported to the respawn area.
My favorite text base game though was Trade Wars 2002 played on BBS via dial up… That was my game, every since then its been all downhill for me…☹
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### Author:  [@polyester](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/polyester)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/5 "2017-02-20T01:54:39Z")
Crap I feel old. Back in college - almost 20 years ago - we had a MUD on one of the campus servers. A group of us built this massive environment in LambdaMOO, which was awesome until one guy with admin access screwed up a command and recoded everything to @GenericHammer.
Backups being not really a thing at the time, we lost a whole lot of work and never really got back to it. Which sucked because it was pretty cool at the time.
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### Author:  [@Sidousai](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sidousai)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/6 "2017-02-20T02:05:39Z")
MUD +1
I think it was called Belgariad MUD, based on David Edding’s book series.
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### Author:  [@Roadclimber](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Roadclimber)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/7 "2017-02-20T02:21:52Z")
Still play MUDs or specifically BATMUD
it rocks… feel free to check it out.
still up and running after 25 years.
took a 17 year break and my character was still there 🙂
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### Author:  [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/8 "2017-02-20T03:35:46Z")
I wouldn’t touch a moo with a ten foot pole lol
LP Muds or nothing. Interpative object oriented C. It was awesome! You could write new code and load it on the fly.
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### Author:  [@htismaqe](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/htismaqe)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/9 "2017-02-20T03:52:35Z")
ROFL
I used to write zones for a DikuMUD on a DEC VAX running VMS.
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### Author:  [@thendain](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/thendain)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/10 "2017-02-20T04:00:25Z")
I did Briagdoon MUD for a LONG time. I was the highest level Cleric on the game. 🙂 I inspired others, even led a clan for about 2 years… Those were the days. 🙂 Also did a MUX run by a friend at college for a few years, that was strictly RP stuff. No stats, no special stuff, she paid for the costs of hosting alone unless someone donated. Good old days indeed. Yes, we’re old farts. 😉
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### Author:  [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/11 "2017-02-20T04:01:59Z")
DikuMuds were an abomination.
Think I tried one once, was that the one that didn’t allow you to spawn new objects without recompiling?
I wrote a Medusa script in an LP mud, it called the player kill function if they examined the Medusa lol. And it left a statue. But if they had a mirror in their inventory…
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### Author:  [@Taisiakat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Taisiakat)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/12 "2017-02-20T04:04:56Z")
Ahhh Brigadoon … that was a long long time ago.
Time Traveler, QWest, a few others I won’t name.
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### Author:  [@htismaqe](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/htismaqe)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/13 "2017-02-20T04:05:16Z")
Man that was a long time ago but yeah I think we did have to recompile every time. The reason we ran it, IIRC was because it was one that would run on VMS. I know they started an LP MUD when then first UNIX box came in but I was more interested in playing than coding.
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### Author:  [@thendain](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/thendain)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/14 "2017-02-20T04:05:16Z")
I was Keljoran/Thendain… and you?
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### Author:  [@EEEEEEE](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/EEEEEEE)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/15 "2017-02-20T04:12:38Z")
Moral Decay!
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### Author:  [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/16 "2017-02-20T04:13:53Z")
LP muds let you write code in game, save it then load the object. The game had an in game C interpreter so no need to compile the code. I used to play Dartmud based out of Dartmouth college back in 91
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### Author:  [@Taisiakat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Taisiakat)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/17 "2017-02-20T04:14:10Z")
Taisia - be that since 1991. Though for a short time I went by Vrykolokas. Hung out with Cynbe.
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### Author:  [@thendain](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/thendain)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/18 "2017-02-20T04:14:57Z")
I think you were before my time. I hit Brig about 1995/6.
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### Author:  [@Mahamoti](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mahamoti)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/19 "2017-02-20T04:29:16Z")
A MUD named Phidar was the reason I bombed out of my first attempt at college.
And also the reason I stayed far, far away from games like Everquest and WoW later on.
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### Author:  [@Taisiakat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Taisiakat)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/anyone-used-to-play-muds/20314/20 "2017-02-20T04:37:50Z")
Did anyone hang out on Citadels BBSes?
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