Hey! I want to be nostalgic too! On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Peter Ajamian wrote: >I have noticed a recent trend towards downloading pre-patched contributed >servers which worries me to a ceartain degree. Before I open up a >discussion on this topic I'd like to take an informal poll to find out if >what I've been noticing is indeed true and why. Here's what I'd like: > >1. When did you download CircleMUD? Hm...good question. Sometime in '96. >2. What version of CircleMUD did you download? circle30bpl10 (or was it 9? Can't remember.) That's what I started my patch page from. People may remember the 'ancient' patch page of mine now archived on: http://developer.circlemud.org/old-patches/ . The shell script I used to generate that page and its source data file appear to have been lost though. That's probably a good thing because it was a huge hack. :) >3. Was it stock or was it a contributed server? Stock stuff. Most contributed servers were for stuff like Amiga or Macintosh then. >4. What was the exact filename (if you can remember) of the server you >downloaded? circle30bpl10.tar.gz >5. Why did you pick that particular version or server? A friend at my future university recommended CircleMUD. Little did he know what he would inflict upon the world. ;) >6. If you had to do it over again now would you use the same server? If >not, what would you use and why? Guess. I think the popularity of pre-patched stuff shows that we need to evolve the codebase. >I'm really interested in answers from those who started using CircleMUD >in the past year or two, but for the sake of comparison I need responses >from those who have been running CircleMUDs longer as well. I'm not big on pre-patched stuff but if people want to make and use them I have nothing against it. Just don't whine to me when something is broken in your package and it's not my fault. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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