ROM (MUD)

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ROM (Rivers of MUD) is a MUD codebase derived from Merc, which is based on DikuMUD.[1] Russ "Alander" Taylor released Rom 2.3 in 1993.[2]

The most current publicly available version of Rom is 2.4b6,[3] which was released in May 1998.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bartle, Richard (2003). Designing Virtual Worlds. New Riders. pp. 10. ISBN 0-1310-1816-7. "...several major codebases (standalone MUD program suites) were created from the basic DikuMUD original, the main ones being Circle, Silly, and Merc. Merc spawned ROM (Rivers of MUD) and Envy, among others, and these in turn had their own spinoffs." 
  2. ^ "Raph Koster's Online World Timeline". http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/mudtimeline.shtml. 
  3. ^ Turkington, Garry (1999-10-12). "Section 1 - The Basics". Archived from the original on 1999-10-12. http://web.archive.org/web/19991012165915/http://www.hypercube.org/tess/rom/faq/section1.html#1.1  developers: Russ Taylor, Brian Moore and Gabrielle Taylor


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