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LPMud FTP Sites

At some point in time, it became fashionable to serve files through a web server instead of an ftp server. Thus most of the links below are to webservers.

MUD Clients

A MUD Client is a program you run on your machine to connect to muds. The advantage over telnet/ssh is that they provide extra functionality, both when connecting and when playing. Generally they also look nicer, however they're usually developed by Computer Scientist so don't expect too much in that area. 🙂 Note that there are about a zillion more MUD Clients than the list below, from massive semi-graphical behemoths down to short lisp-files for emacs. Most are in a state of limbo in terms of development however. The easiest way to get a good overview is to spend an hour on Google or AllTheWeb and search for things like mud client. Perhaps use your platform (windows, linux, whatever) as a search term as well, to narrow things down.

Microsoft Windows

zMud, aka Zugg's MUD Client: Very advanced MUD Client in constant development, gazillions of features and possibilities. 30 days trial, $25 gets you updates for life.
AVPlay: Developed as a beginners client for the mud Avalon, it can also be used to connect to other muds. Amazingly enough also available in a DOS version. Freeware.
SimpleMU: Not a lot of info on this one. Free unlimited(?) trial, $20 license.
Fire Client: GUI-looking client with lots of features and constantly being developed.
AL MUD Client, aka Ashavar's Legacy MUD Client: Made for one particular mud, works on others. Freeware.
MUSHClient: Fast advanced MUD Client, constantly developed. Free unlimited trial, $20 gets you a license.
Xpertmud: Perl scriptable MUD Client. Freeware.
Mud Master: Yet another Windows-client. No longer maintained afaik.
MUDix/gMUDix: One of the good old clients, still being developed. Now also in a GTK+ version called gMUDix.

Apple Mac

Rapscallion: More or less the only MUD Client for Macs, at least when it comes to functionality. 30 day trial, $$$ after that afaik. No development done since '98.

Linus/UNIX

Kmud, aka KDE MUD Client: A mud client using the KDE GUI framework.
MCL, aka Muckle: TinTin-lookalike, embedded perl and python for high tweakability.

Java/Other/Source

TinyFugue, aka tf: Very popular MUD Client. Available for most platforms, but only distributed in source form so be prepared for some work.
Realms: Java client, runs on most platforms.

General MUD information locations

Most sites that had MUD related information are now gone. There isn't any demand for Padrone's Castle or Kantele's Mansion anymore. So don't get too mad if most, if not all, of the below FTP sites are gone. Or too miffed if the sites that are still there are dead but claim to be constantly updated, at least according to the last README-update there. Back in 1995... Time passes, Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold.

ftp.kolbu.com:/pub/dosmud

Contains MUD drivers and mudlibs for PCs running MSDOS. Not everyone has access to a UNIX machine and some like to do their LPC coding at home. Also some MSDOS clients. NOTE! If you have something related to MSDOS/MS WINDOWS and MUDS and it's not already in this archive, please upload it in /incoming!

ftp.kolbu.com:/pub/LPC

Is a complete mirror of the MUD archive at ftp.imaginary.com, where the MudOS driver is developed these days. Also contains the latest Nightmare and Foundation mudlibs.

ftp.imaginary.com

Home of the Idea Exchange mud, where MudOS developers and beta testers gather. The ftp site contains all the latest LPmud/MudOS developments. Also on this server is Nightmare, home of the Nightmare mudlib for MudOS.

ftp.actlab.utexas.edu

Used to be the major site for MudOS related files, and is now only kept up to date once in a while. /MUD/LPmud/MudOS/driver and /pub/incoming/mudos are two directories worth checking out if you're interested in the MudOS driver development. The ACTLab homepage.

ftp.ccs.northeastern.edu

Another major archive site for LP-MUD and related drivers, including MudOS and DGD. Other related material is also available here, including mudlibs, documentation, and clients.

ftp.math.okstate.edu

A major MUD archive, used to have reasonably up-to-date versions of most clients and servers, the most up-to-date FAQs, pictures of MUDders, and documentation. The emphasis here is on Tiny-style MUDs, although this is a reasonably reliable place to find any client or server that lacks its own major FTP archive.

ftp.tcp.com

This was once one of the most popular and up-to-date collections of MUD-related items. A lot of older things can still be found here, particularly those which have vanished off other FTP sites.

mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu

An archive site for some useful utilities, including the logedit program, which edits the output of logs into a prettified format (specifically for MUSH, although the program can be tweaked for other types of MUDs).

ftp.cis.upenn.edu

A directory here is used for Amberyl's personal (small) FTP archive, containing source code for TinyMUSH 2.2 and other MUSH-server-related things, as well as Tess Snider's handy mtrans ascii-picture-to-MUSH-format translator.

ftp.cs.jhu.edu