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CircleMUD 3.0 beta patchlevel 8 - Original Source Archive
Original circle-3.00bpl8.tar.gz with C source, world data, documentation, licenses, and credits preserved unchanged. Historical codebase; not boot-tested or modernized.
About this resource
Early CircleMUD 3.0 source snapshot for historical research, legacy development, and comparing the beta releases. Includes the original C sources, world files, documentation, historical bug list, and saved world data. Original archive The download is circle-3.00bpl8.tar.gz, preserved byte-for-byte from the local historical collection. No files were removed, renamed, repacked, or modernized. Licenses, copyright notices, credits, documentation, source, and world data remain intact. Licensing and attribution The historical CircleMUD and DikuMUD license texts remain in the archive. CircleMUD upstream announced LGPL relicensing in 2020: https://www.circlemud.org/license.html . Consult that update alongside the included notices; this listing does not relicense independent contributor material. Keep author credits and applicable notices with redistributed material. Compatibility and use This is an archival source release, not a tested modern hosting template. It has not been boot-tested by Mudhaven. Downloaders are responsible for compiler compatibility, dependency choices, reviewing old code for security issues, adapting configuration, and testing before public deployment. Historical contact details and platform instructions may be obsolete. SHA-256 d9ba724d6a0f3d4e7e3b53f431ebee90c2a6618fc87ab83bca3c8f71b753754d
Compatibility
Legacy C/Unix MUD source; historical compiler support varies. Modern compilation and security review required. Not boot-tested.
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Attribution stays with the work.
License
Historical bundled licenses; upstream LGPL update; contributor terms apply
Original Author
Jeremy Elson and the CircleMUD/DikuMUD contributors
Credits
CircleMUD by Jeremy Elson and contributors, based on DikuMUD by Sebastian Hammer, Michael Seifert, Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Tom Madsen, and Katja Nyboe. Original copyright, license, author, and credits files are retained. Mudhaven hosts this archive unchanged and claims no authorship.
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