I'd like to thank the following people for their help, witting or otherwise, in making the new release of Dead Souls possible: Sine qua non: Descartes, the legion of MudOS developers, and all those coders who toiled at Nightmare, and Lars Pensjö. Marius for his permission to bundle MudOS, and Wodan for his permission to bundle FluffOS and his ongoing support therein. Direct conributors: Haderach and his clever code and inspiration, Duuk and his willingness to let me poke through his lib and filch code. Great thanks to Marajin for his direct and substantial contribution to the Cygwin Windows port. Much gratitude to Saquivor, for whom a town street is now named, for getting the Windows socket code working. Thanks also to the following for code donation, support, and/or contribution: Tim@TimMUD, Manchi, Brodbane, Ashon, Shadyman, Jonez, Cecil, Daelas, Tricky, K'Azdean, Raudhrskal, Alecksy, Sryth. Appreciation of: Jayren, Kaylus, Arianrhod, Nosmo, Pyro, Abby, Balmung, Aten, Metiscus, Garfield, Javelin, Alensin, Daelas, Root, Kristus, Zeus, Dastuun, Detah, Nulvect, Memrosh, Luna, Kuurus, Darloth, Albiorix, Aransus, Thecreator, Irmo, Silvyar, and Kalinash for their thoughtful comments and suggestions. * Thanks to Frostmud.com for letting me test on their box. * Thanks to Wolfpaw.com for letting me test on their box. * Thanks to murpe.com for letting me test on their box. * Thanks to JohnOC for letting me test on his box. Much gratitude to playtesters: Karri, Aten, Tacitus, Kaatil, Atomic, Daelas. Also: Xyzzy He Is Cool Cratylus @ Dead Souls July 2006 Last update: June 2008