Rom

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ROM started in early February 1993, using Merc 1.0 code. In July of 1993, ROM II was started, eventually replacing the original ROM. ROM was up for a little over a year, after which the code (version 2.3) was released, and various other ROM muds were started, including Rivers of Mud under a new management (Zump's ROM), at rom.org 9000.

Alander's current project is Athen, the sequel to the ROM code. It can be found on Rehobaom's Legacy, at hypercube.org 9000.

The following people contributed to the ROM flavor of the merc base code:

Socials 

Kelsey and Liralen

New, Improved Valhalla 

Liralen

Puff's new special proc and improved poofin/poofout code 

Seth

Maps and map shop 

Ezra, Regnan (Olympus)

Nirvana zone 

Forstall (mobiles rewritten by Alander)

Mob Factory 

Pinkfloyd (originally written for ROM, mobiles rewritten by Alander)

Geographically correct Midgaard (tm) 

Alander

Ideas and playtesting 

Thousands of dedicated mudders around the world

The New Thalos area was donated by Onivel of Jedi, who was also the originator of the ASCII flags used in the zone files

Beta testing 

Ken Blosser, Doug Araya, and Sherene Neil all helped with bugs reports and suggestions, saving a lot of headaches

Bug reports 

Thanks to Shad Muegge, Jerome Despret, Phoenix, Will Hongach, Erwin S. Andreasen, Adam Debus and especially Gary Turkington (author of the ROM FAQ) for help spotting bugs

ROM 2.4 was developed during my time with Moosehead mud, and the release shares many of the features I wrote while I was there. Additional code was written by Seth Scott (the new poofin/poofout), and many contributions and ideas from the Merc list were used. Portions of Rusty's work on Moosehead also remain.

The new features of 2.4 were largely produced in bull sessions with Gabrielle Taylor and Brian Moore, without whom this release wouldn't have happened. In particular, the new privacy code, furniture, and wiznet are the results of Gabrielle's ideas.

Changes to the standard diku mob and object format, as well as the changes to Merc 2.1 source code, were done by Alander over many a late night of hair-pulling. Hope you enjoy it.

(my apologies if anyone was forgotten in this list)