Multi-User Dungeon – British Legends

Here's some notes I wrote down on how to connect to Essex University via an ARPANET gateway, log in to Essex University, and run MUD! I must have been about 15 at the time. I wrote it on one page of a Zork map, as you can see.

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/EssexMUDLogin.jpg

Thanks a lot to Richard A. Bartle and Michael Lawrie for sharing!

Here are the instructions and some notes to explain what the commands mean:

MUD: Multi User Dungeon

@O 42 -- This was the old TIP command to open a connection to an NCP host id #42 (NCP host IDs were 8 bits. The TIP command to connect to a host was later changed to @L. See "User's Guide to the Terminal IMP" at http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDo... . IMP 42 was in London -- see http://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien42.txt )

%CON ESX TORUS EPSS 52200300 -- That's a command to the gateway to connect to Essex University in the UK.

LOG 1776,1776 -- That logs you into the guest account for Americans to play MUD.

Password BUZBY

TY GUID.TXT -- That types out the intro guide to MUD.

RU DSKB:MUD[2011,2653] -- That runs MUD.

K/P or K/B Logs off

I miss MUDs. I remember writing a sophisticated bot to farm mobs (mobiles; monsters) for me and my friends so I could watch TV whilst it was grinding away at the game. Great times.

Aaaaaand, my personal favorite long-running virtual world, Federation is still around: http://ibgames.net/