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Talker - Code bases: Encyclopedia II - Talker - Code bases

The first internet talker, Cat Chat, created in 1990, was based on LPMud code, used for MUDs. This code eventually developed in to Elsewhere code, which then developed in to Elsewhere Too or ew-too code. One of the early intranet talkers, UNaXcess, which was created in 1984, had a code base that was eventually used as a basis for Neil Robertson's own version, NUTS in 1993, which was immediately available for public download. One of the major forks of NUTS 1 was Iforms, which in turn was used to create Ncohafmuta, which formed part of the inspiration for the major NUTS fork Amnuts. NUTS 3 led to the creation of Amnuts as ...

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Talker: Encyclopedia II - Talker - Code bases

Talker - Code bases

The first internet talker, Cat Chat, created in 1990, was based on LPMud code, used for MUDs. This code eventually developed in to Elsewhere code, which then developed in to Elsewhere Too or ew-too code. One of the early intranet talkers, UNaXcess, which was created in 1984, had a code base that was eventually used as a basis for Neil Robertson's own version, NUTS in 1993, which was immediately available for public download.

One of the major forks of NUTS 1 was Iforms, which in turn was used to create Ncohafmuta, which formed part of the inspiration for the major NUTS fork Amnuts. NUTS 3 led to the creation of Amnuts as well as rNUTS and Talker OS in 1998.

Ew-too led to the creation of Summink in 1994, which in turn led to the creation of Sensi-Summink in 1995 and PG96 in 1995. These were later developed in to Sensi-PG and PG-Plus, both released in 1998.

Every new talker created their own unique code that would work on their own talker, and they would typically say that their talker was "based" on a particular code, rather than being an exact copy. As talkers evolved, so did their code, and at some point they would declare a new name for their code. The family tree of talker code development is far from complete, as a true family tree would include almost every talker every created.

Today there are a number of code bases available for public download. These include:

Amnuts [7] by Andrew Collington
BOLTS [8] by Nathan Richards (Sunspot)
Cheesehouse ftp://ftp.cheeseplant.org/pub/cph/ by Daniel Stevens (Cheeseplant)
Crypt [9] by Bryan McPhail, Scott McKenzie & Marty Greenwell
Ew-too ftp://ftp.ewtoo.org/pub/distrib/ewtoo by Simon Marsh (Burble)
Iforms [10] by Vince Rohr (Deep)
Jeamland [11] by Andy Fiddaman
JOOT [12] by Dave Jarvis
Mamnuts [13] by Marcos Marado (Mind Booster Noori)
Ncohafmuta [14] by Anthony Biacco (Cygnus)
NUTS ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/mud/servers/misc/nuts/ by Neil Robertson
OOT [15] by Dave Jarvis
PG96 [16] by astyanax
PG-Plus [17] by Richard Lawrence (Silver), J. Bradley Christian (phypor) & Geoffrey Swift (blimey)
Playground by by traP, astyanax, Nogard and vallie
PyTalker [18] by Marcos Marado (Mind Booster Noori), Daniel Cruz (FX) and José Martins (Hellraiser)
RamTITS [19] by Rob and Mike
rNUTS [20] by Slugger & Engi
Sensi-PG ftp://ftp.ewtoo.org/pub/distrib/sensi-pg by J. Bradley Christian (Phypor)
sensi-summink ftp://ftp.ewtoo.org/pub/distrib/sensi-summink by James Greenhalgh (Slaine)
South West [21] by Scott Lloyd (Duck)
summink ftp://ftp.ewtoo.org/pub/distrib/summink by Neil Charley (Athanasius), Michael Simms (Grim)
Talker OS [22] by William Price
UNaXcess ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume4/unaxcess/ by Brandon Allbery