This is an historical archive of the ColdMUD server -- a networked multiuser persistent object oriented programming language -- written by Greg Hudson from 1993 to 1994.
It is a variant of a type of MUD/MOO server similar to LambdaMOO.
The sources are based on archives I found https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/coldmud/ and currently represent the source from versions 0.8 to 0.11, preserved in the git history with commit messages derived from the original CHANGELOG.
I was unable to find any source archives earlier than 0.8. The source trees I found after 0.11 (dev-0.11) take a bit of a right turn off into other directions, with many source files partially rewritten to C++. Those are captured in branches, rather than on master.
After the 0.11 (spring 1994) time period, other people took over development of ColdMUD, and it forked into two separate paths:
- "Genesis" was a fork by Brandon Gillespie and others, and is preserved here: https://github.com/the-cold-dark/genesis
- And a continuation of the original
coldmudsources by Colin McCormack, which kept the coldmud name and version numbering system. I am currently sourcing these changes from Colin and will preserve them here.
Note: The documentation and tests here are taken from the dev-0.11 tree, but the source is from 0.11-alpha