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Phantasmal Credits

The Phantasmal MUDLib is primarily written and maintained by Noah Gibbs. Other contributors include:

Credits:

• Keith Dunwoody for patches to merge PORTABLED with MAPD, for the new parser, for major contributions to the MOBILE infrastructure, and a patch to add new modifiers to UNQ DTDs.
• Dan Parks for the new exits code, for a bugfix with user login and password changing, and for some miscellaneous other bugfinding.
• Tom Lokovic for testing, ideas, and work on various speculative or related projects, including the original design of the UNQ format
• Gary Preston for a useful patch for the zonefile and general brainstorming and debugging
• Neil McBride for miscellaneous code and ideas
• Jay Shaffstall for StringD code and escape character codes for UNQ parsers
• Mark Luszniak for requesting more documentation and for submitting simple object code.
• Chris Meshkin for ideas and discussion
• Other MUDLib authors, who provide ideas and competition. Thanks to Steve Schmidt (Melville), Erlend Simonsen (GurbaLib) and Tim Hollebeek(Lima). With luck, I'll soon be able to thank the authors of Macrocosm, Whedimer, Aexeon and Last Bastion for the same.
• Noah Gibbs, who bravely carried the Phantasmal torch through thick and thin long before I had even heard of DGD.
• And naturally, no set of credits for a DGD MUDLib would be complete without mentioning Felix Croes (Dworkin), who wrote and maintains DGD and the Kernel library.
• Additional web-specific credits to HTMLSource . It's the HTML tutorial site I've been hunting for years, and now it finally exists! Now if they'll just mention how to do the equivalent in correct XHTML in more of the examples...
• And for me, the new admin, I'd like to recommend The W3 Schools, a fantastic experimental site that covers the XHTML stuff missing in the previous link. It even has a "try it!" function that lets you instantly view the results of your XHTML source. It really came in handy bringing this site into compliance with XHTML 1.0 Strict, first when I gave the website a compliance check, and again after I broke it during overhaul :P
• Check out the Credits file in the latest Phantasmal distrib for the most complete current list of contributors.

References and Inspirations:

• DGD, of course.
• The Melville MUDLib by Stephen Schmidt
• GurbaLib by Erlend Simonsen
• Skotos Tech generally, and their articles more specifically. Many thanks to Shannon Appelcline!
• The DiscWorld MUDLib for MudOS, used by the DiscWorld MUD.
• CthulhuMUD and its driver -- which appear to be down for the count. There is a new one in Beta you can connect to at cm.foxpaws.net, port 8889. So far, it looks really good!
• The Soundex algorithm
• Tom Lokovic's work on UNQ and PLUNQ.
• The MUD-Dev mailing list
• KaVir's MUD page (broken)
• Adam Wiggin's Blood Dusk MUD.
• Peter S. Beagle's book 'The Last Unicorn'
• "Essentials of English", formerly "Essentials of Effective Writing", by Hopper, Gale, Foote and Griffith, published by Barron's. It's a fine dissection of the grammar of the English language.