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<LI><em>From</em>: Jon Leonard <<A HREF="mailto:jleonard#slimy,com">jleonard#slimy,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 00:48:01 -0800</LI>
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On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:19:54PM -0700, cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA wrote:
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> In 1988, Rich Skrenta at Northwestern University released the game
> "Monster". It's a multiplayer adventure-type game written in Pascal.
> I have a paper listing. The comment at the top of the listing:
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> This is Monster, a multiuser adventure game system
> where the players create the universe.
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> I believe that means that it had online creation. A vague memory says that
> it was for VAX VMS, and did its interprocess communication through files.
I played and coded some changes to Monster back when I was in school. It did
indeed have online creation, and did IPC through files.
The contrast to LPMud (which I started playing later that year) was striking:
LPMud used a single game process, untrusted clients, nonpersistent world,
networked communication, flexible (but privileged) building, while Monster
used the reverse of all these decisions.
I didn't miss Monster much, mostly because having a fixed format for data
in the world files really limited what you could do in it. That, and
corrupted databases were no fun.
Jon Leonard
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00551" HREF="msg00551.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Kristen L. Koster <a href="mailto:koster#eden,com">koster#eden,com</a>, Sun 05 Mar 2000, 00:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00554" HREF="msg00554.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00566" HREF="msg00566.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00545" HREF="msg00545.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Jon Leonard <a href="mailto:jleonard#slimy,com">jleonard#slimy,com</a>, Sat 04 Mar 2000, 20:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00535" HREF="msg00535.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 04 Mar 2000, 05:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00537" HREF="msg00537.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 04 Mar 2000, 06:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00552" HREF="msg00552.html">Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel#io,com">efindel#io,com</a>, Sun 05 Mar 2000, 00:17 GMT
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