Software:The Ruins of Cawdor

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The Ruins of Cawdor
Developer(s)Ybarra Productions
Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s)Sierra On-Line
Platform(s)MS-DOS
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Release1995 (Incl. with INN)
Genre(s)MUD
RPG
Mode(s)Single player
Multiplayer

The Ruins of Cawdor was the last of three graphical MUDs for the online community The Sierra Network, which later became The ImagiNation Network. It was designed by Richard Aronson (author of the widely reprinted RPG humor story Eric and the Dread Gazebo), and based loosely on Macbeth.

The game was released in 1995, and it was the third one in the series, preceded by The Shadow of Yserbius in 1992 and The Fates of Twinion in 1993. Only The Shadow of Yserbius and The Fates of Twinion were released in offline versions that could be played without an internet connection.

The Ruins of Cawdor has been patched to allow for offline play.

Remakes

INN Barn (2019-Present)

INN Barn was designed from scratch as a modern recreation of the former Imagination DOS network servers. It's been created and hosted by Jim Leiterman who worked for INN back in 1994-95 as a way to restore some of the functionality of the old network. In addition to the server, he has programmed a companion proxy interface for Windows to connect to said server. Basically, you run the innproxy on your PC, you run the INN software in DOSBox, and when you connect it connects to the running proxy as if it were the old dialup modems we use to use in the "old" days to connect to the INN Barn server. Being DOSBox it has native clients that will run in Linux, Mac, and Windows the only caveat being the proxy is windows only but has run well for Linux / Mac users under WINE.

We can now again enjoy playing with friends Cawdor, Twinion, and Yserbius along with most of other INN games like Boogers, Red Baron, Cribbage, Spades, Hearts, Cribbage and more for free. The Sierra Help Pages has graciously hosted a setup package for Windows you can download that includes everything you need to connect and play here:

http://www.sierrahelp.com/Misc/INNBarn.html

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