Tony Blews

It disappears down into the bottomless pit…

Back in 1990, that could have summed up my computing degree, but it was the response you got when dropping items into the sacrificial pit on AberMUD.

AberMUD was a Multi User Dungeon written (mainly) by Alan Cox, long before he started doing bits with Linux.

If you don’t remember AberMUD, then you won’t want to bother reading any further. But if you do recall it, then prepare to rejoice.

I’ve located a copy of the sources that will compile under Linux, and got it running.

If you want to play it, SSH or TELNET to bl83.homelinux.net and login with the username mud and password mud

I’ve had to take Telnet access off, so now you’ll need some form of SSH client such as Putty, or use the web-based ConsoleFish.

(bl83 was the name of the machine it ran on briefly at Staffordshire University)

As part of my continuing interest in canals, i’ve started pretty much finish marking every single last canal (current, derelict and in-filled) and navigable river in England.

http://www.coobeastie.co.uk/gecm/

However, if I even look like i’m considering mapping all the UK’s abandonned and derelict railway lines, please shoot me.

The excellent Top 10 For Dummies site has used a crappy piece of my artwork on the site. Brilliant.  Its just a shame they got my URL wrong in the credit.

Here is the original picture, which was done for b3ta: