Subject: Re: PeaksMUSH is back. I hope.
From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
Date: 1990-11-27, 08:31
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In <9814@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dgreen@cbrown.claremont.edu (Green, David) writes:

> >A MUSH is basically a TinyMUD with a lot of modifications.  Several things that
> >a MUSH adds:
> >(1) You can @force items you own to do things.
> >(2) Much more liberal @teleport laws.

> >[more MUD terms deleted]
> >(7) Many other things that I can't think of or don't want to explain right now.

> >Hope this helps somewhat.

A lot for rec.games.mud, but probably not for the a.tv.t-p'ers out there.
(No offense intended, but the crosspost made this pop up in r.g.mud.)

As best as I can tell from perusing r.g.mud, MUSH and Mud are interactive
games played over the Internet.  When someone says they have a MUD running
at "foo.bar.org 2217", they're giving the address to tell a tinyMUD program
to hook up to.

I think TinyMUD is a small network server that can be obtained via anonymous
ftp;  if you're running on a compatible (probably SysV or BSD) Unix site, 
you just compile it, run it with those parameters, and play.

Somebody on the host (for our example, foo.bar.org) wrote a MUD server (in
MUD language?) that basically creates an "environment" for you... for this 
TP mud, I suspect it's just Twin Peaks itself ... and then lets you run 
amok, doing whatever you do to the characters and places you see.  (I wonder
if you're allowed to cavort with Audrey in One-Eyed Jacks... of course not;
she's not there anymore. :-) )

This probably doesn't help much, but it may be a start.  I'm not much for
Internet games myself.  Here at the University of No Learning, a couple of
students were put under the heavy hand of the U. for doing exactly this
last year.  Unfortunately, at the time there was no explicit rule banning
game-playing, so they quickly drafted one and prosecuted the students 
under it.  I believe they were expelled from their majors but allowed to
stay here.
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