Is British Telecoms new MUD pack offer merely cosmetic?
By this time this issue of MSX User appears on your newsagent’s shelves, British Telecom will have launched MUD upon an unsuspecting world. What is MUD? How does it affect the MSX owner? And why is British Telecom involved with it? To obtain the answers to these and related questions, I spoke to Mike Anderiesz of New Information Services, the sub-section of British Telecom charged with perpetrating the folly, as some might think, that is MUD. MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon and is an interactive real time role-playing adventure game for children in the older age group – say around 35. Players must have a home computer – any make will do – plus a modem enabling them to access the game via the telephone line. They must also have nothing better to occupy them between the hours of 6pm and 8pm or at weekends. The original version of MUD was the product of the fevered imagination of a computer studies undergraduate at Essex University called Roy Trubshaw. Like many of his fellows back in 1
