Anyone here ever play a MUD called Paradox?

Are there any oldschool gamers that played MUD's reading this? They're basically text based online games with hundreds of simultaneous users and have been around since the 80's or earlier. They were the predecessors to MMORPG. MUD stands for multi user dungeon (or dimension). I played them (and programmed) in 1992-1997. I used to play them so much I would dream in Cyan colored text. My favorite was Paradox and it ran on the campus of UNC Chalotte on an old Sun server equivalent to a 286 used for logging network activity That's all they let us run it on. There are several MUD types, Paradox was a LP Mud. If anyone is curious, here's a link with info about MUD and other text based games. They are like interactive fiction a bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

These things are still played even now btw.

I was a Mudder. My friends had to beg me, plead with me and nearly hit me on the head with Ultima Online and Ultima Online finally got me away from Mudding. I checked recently on the Mud I played Materia Magicaand it seems it is still going.

I am half tempted to pull it up and take a spin down memory lane, but I think I'd like to leave the memories where they are and perfect.

Learned C by going thru and actually fixing all the memory and list management errors on some ROM and RoT muds and redesigning half their systems. Good times. Still have friends who have me bugfix modules for em. My favorite was Alturia though. Run by an IMM named Artemis Darkblade. Had great quest abilities and clan features and above that had lots of nice people that made it fun. Closed down couple years back but was fun while it was up.

Back in the early to mid 90's I was on some BBS systems, playing a game called "Legend of the Red Dragon"... did that qualify as MUD, or was it different?

I used to play a MUD called Shadowlands... so seeing people refer to Second Life as SL was weird at first

MUDs are okay. MOOs are where it's at.

Renegade Outpost player here, from its early days (92-94 or thereabouts). One of the more well-known support characters back then.

Great DikuMUD, still around but I've no time to locate anyone I used to know...

--Alan

I MUSH to this day, but that's not quite the same thing.

I run a WoD Mux.. Still old-school.. just prettier colors.

The only difference between MOO's and MUSH's from MUD's is combat. MUD's had combat hard wired into them The others were for role playing mostly. Some MOO's and MUSH's had combat systems custom programmed into them but they were rare.

Realms of Dispair MUD, circa 1995-96.

Funniest thing was when I found the other warrior I ran with frequently was also the mother of someone I played Warhammer40k with.

Yes, used to MUD in the early 90's. I joined a few different ones. Ahh the good old days of telnet. I even keep in touch with one or two people I met in San Francisco during the big SF meet we had.

I don't remember the name of the MUD though. *sigh*

Elle

LORD only wished it were a MUD. It was the most popular door on our BBS, though... then we lost a lot of players when another BBS with more resources offered a real MUD (a CircleMUD).

I used to code and play a lot of MUDs - used to hang out on Lambda Moo a bit as well.

A lot of my friends split to go to EQ - and I came here. I used that to try and explain SL to a few people that didn't 'get it' at first:

If you took a MUD and made it a 3d game you'd have Everquest.
If you took a MOO and made it a 3d game you'd have Second Life.

A nifty thing to realise is that Pavel Curtis, the author of Lambda Moo is a resident here.

I played a few MUDs. I still have ZMud on a disk somewhere.

Community there wasnt bad. But holy hell the coder they had sucked arse. Then again after that mud closed down I made a fair bit of spare cash doing programming fixes for the sloppy work. And one of those people, Distortions, later made so many screw ups of their own I made hundreds of dollars rewriting their code.

So does this make the the MUD equivilant of a land swooper? =-)