ROM

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ROM Developed by Russ Taylor Initial release 1993 Latest release 2.4b6 Written in C Operating system Unix-like Language English Type of software MUD server Software license Proprietary Website http://www.rom.org/

ROM is a Merc derived MUD codebase first released by Russ Taylor (Alander) in 1993. In 1994 he formed the Rom Consortium with his then-wife Gabrielle Taylor and their close friend Brian Moore.

The most current publicly available version of Rom is version 2.4b6 released in May 1998.^[1]

[edit] Widespread use of ILAB/OLC

ROMolc, a variant of online creation, was ported from NiMUD and gained popularity with the ROM server code as an add-on component.

[edit] Athen

Rom 4.1, also known as Athen 1.1, is the current private Rom source. There are no plans for its public release, and only three muds run the Athen code.

One of these muds is Rehobaom's Legacy, which was once called Tesseract. It was founded by Gabrielle with Jay B. Kesten and is now run by her with Tomohiko Tanabe. Russ is still present but far less active.

The second, Rom II, is derived from Russ's original game and run by Brian Moore, it is well known as Rivers of MUD. Rivers of MUD was shut down at midnight on March 31, 2006, due to lack of interest on part of the implementors.

The third, Natural Selection, is run by Garry Turkington, who wrote the original Rom FAQ.

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