SMAUG
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SMAUG (Simulated Medieval Adventure Multi-User Game) is a Merc and Dikumud derived MUD online game program. (Not to be confused with the dragon Smaug found in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction, which did inspire the acronym.)
This project was started in May of 1994 by Derek Snider (Thoric), and in July of 1994, Realms of Despair was opened to the public.
The SMAUG source code was publically released in December of 1996 due to an earlier leak of the code and some areas from Realms of Despair.
SMAUG has grown to be a very popular code base, and was the first release of a DikuMUD derivative to raise the bar, and include a feature set far beyond the plain vanilla standard.
For better or for worse, a beginner could have a full feature-rich MUD "out of the box", without having to learn how to program, or install a bunch of potentially buggy code snippets to add new features. SMAUG came with just about everything you could want.
External links
- http://www.smaug.org - Official SMAUG Website
- http://www.realmsofdespair.com - Realms of Despair