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LAND (1989) — a lost MUD recreated

I’ll admit it: I don’t know very much about MUDs. (Nor am I familiar with the various spinoffs — the MUCKs, MOOs and MUSHes — that proliferated in the early days of the Net.) Many years ago, I would occasionally … Continue reading

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Wander follow-up

Previously I wrote about Wander, the 1974 mainframe text adventure game-creation system by Peter Langston, which was recently rediscovered. You can now play Wander online. This em-dosbox repackaging of a DOS port of Wander was created by me, using blunt … Continue reading

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Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found!

Wander was possibly the first program for creating text-adventure games. Once thought lost, it has now been found. Continue reading

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