ROM (MUD)

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ROM is a MUD codebase derived from Merc, which is based on DikuMUD. Russ Taylor (Alander) released Rom 2.3 in 1993. In 1994 he formed the Rom Consortium with his then-wife Gabrielle Taylor (Satin/Antoinette) and their close friend Brian Moore (Zump).

Aardwolf, one of the most popular MUD games in the late 1990s, used version ROM 2.4.^[1]

The most current publicly available version of Rom is 2.4b6,^[2] which was released in May 1998. ROMolc is an unofficial port of the popular online creation add-on, and is distributed with the package and as an add-on.

[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 have permission to run the Athen code.^{[citation needed]}

One of these muds is Rehobaom's Legacy, which was once called Tesseract. It was founded by Gabrielle with Jay B. Kesten (ShapeShifter) and is now run by her with Tomohiko Tanabe (Jequel). Russ is still present but far less active.^{[citation needed]}

The second, Rom II, is derived from Russ's original game, and run by Brian Moore. Well known as Rivers of MUD, this version has been well maintained, ad free, and free for use since its beginning. Rivers of MUD was shut down at midnight on March 31, 2006, due to lack of interest on part of the implementors. The implementors left a note on the web page describing some of the difficulties encountered during the MUD's last few years.^{[citation needed]}

The third, Natural Selection, is run by Garry Turkington (Corloth/Banton), who wrote the original Rom FAQ.