I’ve mentioned here several times about my old hobby – MUD. We have highly modified SMAUG mud running, but currently almost totally abandon… No time to make it a full-time hobby, so it was abandon… It was up & running almost all the time (I stopped working on it somewhere around 2000), but was not maintained.
Basically problem was, that it is heavily modified, and CLI from original SMAUG does not support all features (or rather – support but in not such IMMO-friendly way), so preferred way of working for IMMO is to have local copy of MUD… But not all IMMO-wanabe are such savvy FreeBSD admin/user as I am (khm… at least in my opinion ;-))) so it was always problem with giving them working environment. There were other reasons, which made me not giving them access to machine where MUD is running…
Some years passed and we now have VMWare Player… Now we can give every IMMO proper environment to work… I’m pretty sure, if there was such solution back in 2000 DiesIrae mud will be not abandoned. So this way I want to say thank You VMWare, for such decent product