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AberMUD was the first popular open source MUD. It was named after the town Aberystwyth, in which it was written. The first version was written in B by Alan Cox, Richard Acott, Jim Finnis, and Leon Thrane based at University of Wales, Aberystwyth for an old Honeywell mainframe and opened in 1987. The gameplay was heavily influenced by ''MUD1'', created by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle at the University of Essex, which Alan Cox had played. In late 1988, ''AberMUD'' was ported to C by Alan Cox so it could run on UNIX at Southampton University's Maths machines. This version was named ''AberMUD2''. In early 1989, there were three instances of ''AberMUD'' running in the UK, the Southampton one, one at Leeds University and a third at the IBM PC User Group in London, ran by Ian Smith. In January 1989 Michael Lawrie sent a licensed copy of ''AberMUD3'' to Vijay Subramaniam and Bill Wisner, both American ''Essex MIST'' players. Bill Wisner subsequently spread ''AberMUD'' around the world. ''AberMUD3'' was renamed ''AberMUD II'' by Rich Salz in February 1989 after he cleaned up the source code and ported it to UNIX. In 1991, Alan Cox wrote ''AberMUD IV'' (unrelated to ''AberMUD 4'') and then ''AberMUD V'', which was also used, with graphical extensions, in the ''Elvira'' game by ''Horror Soft'', a trading name of Adventure Soft. ''AberMUD V'' was later released under the GNU GPL. ''AberMUD4'' was improved by Alf Salte and Gjermund "Nicknack" Sørseth to create ''Dirt''. Their May, 1993 final release of ''Dirt 3.1.2'' is used by most of the remaining AberMUD games on the internet. Notable AberMUDs include ''Northern Lights'' and ''Infinity''. About twenty AberMUDs remain in operation, but even , they have few players. However, AberMUD's legacy lives on in the three major codebases it inspired: TinyMUD, LPMud and DikuMUD. ==See also== * AberMUD family tree * MUD * Chronology of MUDs * Wizard (MUD) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AberMUD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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