Abermud Central is still alive....
I just happen to check the Abermud Central site long thought to have been abandoned recently, and discover that Magnus Ullberg has come out of hiding with a new valid email address. If you have code to submit to Abermud Central, go over to http://abercentral.cjb.net submit your code, then cast an email to magnus{#)ullberg.us

A new Abermud comes online...
Been a while since a new Abermud came online hasn't it? Slayer has opened Sussex MUD which runs under the Dyrt 1.9 codebase. Pay a visit at hollyfeld.org 6969

TerraFirma 5.1, Phoenix
Among some minor features added to the mud, they added a new quest recently.

Underwater - by Bagpuss

A town lies ruined beneath the sea. Can you brave the depths and retrieve a stone tablet for The Archaeologist?


Phoenix also added three new zones, Darkest, NightGarden and Corners by Natael that introduced new game effects, puzzles and mobile types.

A MUDder goes to prison...
Folks, you mingle in the MUD and meet lots of people. You get to know a bunch of them. You may actually go out and visit them in person. Then you find out one day that one of these people gets in trouble with the law, charged, tried, convicted, and incarcerated. I learned of someone I knew and met in person who has done all these things recently and couldn't believe it. You'd think they'd have a good head on their shoulders, but not for this person. I will not say who this person is on this site, but it's a longtime personality in the Abermud universe. I thought they would know better not to be doing certain things but apparently not. As a warning to all others, don't be doing stuff that will get you headlines...negative ones, and VERY negative ones.

Five More Abers Vanish...
Astral Plains, Black Star, Nemesis, Stormclouds, and XTC have all closed their doors the past few months. Sad to see them go...

There's some stuff hosted on Stormclouds site that I may host over here just so there's one more place to download it apart from all the others.

Zonewriter for Abermud Source Code Released!
Well, I have decided to release the source code to ZoneWriter under the GPL. You'll find the VB6 source under files soon enough. If anyone has questions about how it works, you'll have to give me a bit to figure it out and I might not have the answer :) It's been a long time since I've had any real free time to work on ZoneWriter and at this stage, I've pretty much lost any further interest in developing the application. I've pretty much lost interest in MUDs in general and not due to any person, place, or thing ... It's been a long time in coming and I just decided upon this today.

Please use this group as the discussion forum for ZoneWriter so I may continue to see its progress (I'm still interested to see if people use it or want to continue working on it).

Since I'm releasing this under the GPL, I request that any derivative works and their source be posted here as well. Consider it a mirror for the software. Keep in mind that this is a *request* and you may ignore it if you choose. I'd just like to see what people do with the source and I'd like to offer these forums as a mirror and discussion location for all things ZoneWriter.

As always, have fun!
-Excalibur
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zonewriter/

The Stormclouds About to Clear?
In what's been a troubling trend among a number of Abermuds, the lack of players may spell the end of Stormclouds, formerly known as Dark Cloud 2.

Stormclouds to Close
I've been avoiding this post for some time now but it is past due. I think it is time for Stormclouds, formerly Darkclouds, to close. I stopped working on it maybe 2 years ago now, possibly 3, and don't even login now. I just found out it has been down and I'm not sure when that happened. If one of the folks who ran it originally (or certain trusted other people) want to take over and keep it up, I'm all for giving you the code. The account password could be arranged to. I guess I'd like to hear from Danikid, Spaceboy or Elims on this. My email is drey AT speakeasy DOT org. I'll likely leave it up through the New Year in any event. I'm not certain if Stormclouds has a community anymore because I'm not part of it if it still does.

New Zones on Phoenix
SOLSTICE
Help the citizens of the peaceful town of Opalia restore the Snow Temple and celebrate the Solstice. Thank you Kitra Nardanaya and Yuki Kiaaron for this charming and non-threatening quest suitable for all levels.

MAVENWOOD
Near the Pechish hamlet of Belith, visit the newly discovered town of Mavenwood, of particular interest to Seraphim. Thank you Rudolph Datura for this challenging new Seraph puzzle.

Pheonix

Northern Lights Christmas Quest
The annual holiday zone is back in. Can you save Santa from his evil twin brother? Go ahead and try it out while you can, twenty days past christmas we remove the zone again... Start looking near Warm Haven.

Northern Lights MUD

Abermud 5.30.0
In April of 2002, Alan Cox actually released a new version of Aber 5. Supposedly he was working on a 64-bit version of it as well but it has yet to materialize. I have replaced the download site link for Aber 5 as that Shadow Cabi site no longer exists.

http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/Software/Games/AberMUD5/