I used to play them a lot, the original MUD, Shades, Dutch Mountains, and some at Uni.

My mate is still well into them, he has dutch mountains running on his linux box, and has also done a lot of stuff with shades.


I recently got interested in building my own, i was curious how the parser works on a good game and started researching it and playing around, just ran out of time after a while, i might pick it up again at some point.

If you're interested... here are some interesting articles on parsers and lexical analysis written by Richard Bartle, one of the guys who wrote the original MUD...

Notes from the Dawn of Time
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Matt