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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bennett [<A HREF="mailto:ddt#discworld,imaginary.com">mailto:ddt#discworld,imaginary.com</A>]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 2:41 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?
>
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> On 5/3/99, at 5:53 PM, Wes Connell wrote:
>
> >Well technically the server I'm working on is not custom
> since I had to
> >use memory allocation stuff from Diku. Diku gets credit =].
> Anyways, the
> >mud is going to be AD&D based. It will be to the book exact.
> Following the
> >book exact turned out to be more of a challenge than I
> thought. A couple
> >of somewhat interesting things I've done to the server is combine the
> >object/character/player structures into one structure and
> make the room
> >descriptions dynamic depending on what
> objects/characters/exits are in the
> >room.
>
> Morning,
>
> I hope you have talked to TSR about the copyright issues here (well,
> Wizards of the Coast now)? Being derived from a set of books or from
> something like AD&D immediately puts you into a copyright
> problem if you
> try to go public. TSR (when they were TSR) did shutdown at
> least one mud
> that I know of, for being based on Forgotten Realms.
>
> Copyrighting the technicolour dreamcoat,
> David.
This may become more of an issue since Bioware (who just had a big hit with
"Baldur's Gate" as a standalone game) is reportedly working on some sort of
graphical mud set in Neverwinter.
-Raph
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00295" HREF="msg00295.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
Jay Carlson <a href="mailto:nop#mitre,org">nop#mitre,org</a>, Tue 18 May 1999, 06:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00306" HREF="msg00306.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 19 May 1999, 04:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00321" HREF="msg00321.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</a>, Fri 21 May 1999, 19:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00241" HREF="msg00241.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
Chris Turner <a href="mailto:christ#rd,bbc.co.uk">christ#rd,bbc.co.uk</a>, Fri 14 May 1999, 08:13 GMT
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Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 05 May 1999, 15:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00159" HREF="msg00159.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 06 May 1999, 04:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00161" HREF="msg00161.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
Marc Hernandez <a href="mailto:marc#ias,jb.com">marc#ias,jb.com</a>, Thu 06 May 1999, 05:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00185" HREF="msg00185.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 09 May 1999, 11:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00249" HREF="msg00249.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Custom Server Roll Call?</A></strong>,
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