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About

"It runs on the world's most powerful graphics chip: imagination"
Sheldon Lee Cooper, Ph.D., Sc.D., from the American comedy television series "The Big Bang Theory" in "The Irish Pub Formulation" (Season 4, Episode 6) about text adventures.

Nemesis is a text-based multiplayer role-playing game driven by a LPMud GameDriver (abbr. GD, the "WorldSimulator", the game engine) written in C and a MudLib (coding of the "world") written in LPC, alike to many other MUDs (=Multi User Dungeons) on the Internet. These MUDs have come up about 1990 and are the ancestors of today's graphical MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games). But already during the early stages of Nemesis many enhancements and features (see end of page) were developed.

How to play Nemesis

Never been in a MUD before?
Then have a look at our "How to start - Some useful hints for really utter novices" (as PDF in Download)!

Differences between other MUDs & Nemesis

Already in earliest days of Nemesis during the early 1990s no stone was left standing. Some differences are:

a heavily modified GameDriver (GD) with lots of additional efuns and other extensions such as more than one port and protocol. For example, there are an IRC bot, a Mail/SMTP gateway, a Gopher and WWW server within the game, all written in LPC,
outgoing network connections are possible (the IRC bot as gateway to IRC and the Mail/SMTP gateway for example),
special attention is paid to consistency of rooms and monsters etc.,
the entire MudLib (LPC code) has been revised and numerous global features added, such as a weather system, rules restriction controls and much more,
and for several years Nemesis was one of the largest LPMuds running in Germany (see History).
Since September 2001 Nemesis offers free web space for wizards (coders) and domains (organized building areas).
Nowadays Nemesis focuses on more security, data privacy & data integrity for players (see also 'help privacy' and about SSL/TLS in 'help connect') besides
the further development and improvement of the game itself (see also News) ...

The Gallery (Pics) shows you pictures of a famous tape, and an ancient machine.
Or have a look at the History of Nemesis and the wizard Metall's talk "Nemesis - ein typisches MUD im Deutschland der Neunziger" (PDF, German) in "Download / Publications".

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