Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "AberMUD" in English language version.
The files doc/CHANGELOG-aber-IV and doc/Manual.ms contain changes and info for the old original code, they are obsolescent and are included for historical reasons only.
The Software, both source code, design and scenario are copyright Alan Cox, Richard Acott, Jim Finnis, And Leon Thrane, save for the Blizzard pass section of the scenario which is (C)1988 Alan Cox, save for versions of the scenario on the ZX Spectrum 128K microcomputer. (C) 1987/88 All rights reserved.
Cox was a player of MUD1 who wrote AberMUD while a student at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The code was made generally available, and was enhanced and added to by several people, most notably Salz.
He did this on Southampton University's Maths machines thanks to a chap called Pete Bentley who ran a bulletin board called SBBS there, and in late 1988, there was a fairly playable game called AberMUD2 up and running.
I had also taken over a new game called AberMUD that two of my wizards, Anarchy (Alan Cox) and Moog (Richard Acott) had originally written at Aberyswyth University and Alan was now converting to Unix at Southampton University. Alan ended up taking a year out so I took on AberMUD and roped in a couple of programmers in to help keep the thing maintained and expanded. [...] In 1991, I sent a copy of AberMUD to Vijay Subramaniam and Bill Wisner (our only two American MIST wizards) and as far as MUDs being generally available to the world, the rest is history which oddly isn't true for the credits in AberMUD since a huge amount of the original authors were removed somewhere.
By 1987, Lorry had taken over the Essex Systems (MUD itself, and the thing he was to become best known for, MIST) and ran them, and just about every other publicly available 'leisure' system on UK academic networks until 1992. Politically, this did me a lot of good, personally, it didn't. Bill Wisner and myself will argue who it actually was who exported MUDs to the rest of the world, I certainly mailed him the first US AberMud distribution, but I reckon that his originally distributing the AberMuds, Diku's and LPMuds makes him far more responsible for this crime against humanity.
Cox was a player of MUD1 who wrote AberMUD while a student at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The code was made generally available, and was enhanced and added to by several people, most notably Salz.
The files doc/CHANGELOG-aber-IV and doc/Manual.ms contain changes and info for the old original code, they are obsolescent and are included for historical reasons only.
