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- From: daum@ee.ualberta.ca (Tanya Louise Daum)
- Subject: Re: Magic, Computers, MUDs, more..+
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1993Jan1.203524.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:49:47 GMT
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- nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
-
- >How about a world where the characters find out how to munipulte the worlds
- >"source code" and the spells they use are actually modification of the source
- >code or of minor subreutines.. As the characters gain experiences they get
- >better at munipulting the source code, or get higher up in the code.. Artifacts
- >might be of being able to better number crunch the spells so that they get
- >faster to change the source code..
-
- While the code produced is not exactly a spell as a such, the
- LambdaMOO server (Example at lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888) has an interactive
- object oriented programming language in which the entire game database
- (everything from the generic room class to the generic object class,
- including basic commands like "Say" or "look") has been written in an object
- oriented language called MOO .. It's quite fascinating, and most anybody can
- get programmer capabilities on LambdaMOO. Give it a try.
-
- >For ideas on how to write computer games, take a look at a MUD..
-
- Indeed! And I think LambdaMOO is one of the best muds out there,
- especially as far as programming goes. It certainly slaughters all the
- popular systems out there like DikuMUD or Tiny* .
-
- >Players create there own spells. Hum.. Sounds like a beginning for a VR
- >universe..
-
- And that is how it has turned out to be...
- --
- "And men are men who till the land, and women are women who weave, fifty men
- own the lemon grove, and no man is a slave." -- Herbert Read
-
- Comrade @ LambdaMOO (telnet lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888) daum@bode.ualberta.ca
-