The client gained popularity quickly because of its easy to use scripting language and the popularity of DikuMUD for which it was designed. Development of TINTIN was continued by Bill Reiss who announced the release of TinTin++ 1.0 in July 1993. In October 1992 Peter Unold made his final release, TINTIN III, which was a much more mature and feature rich program. TinyFugue has continued to evolve and remains a popular client today for Unix-like systems.Īnother early client was TINTIN by Peter Unold in April 1992. Development of TinyFugue was taken over by Ken Keys in 1991. In September 1990 TinyFugue which was based on TinyWar 1.2.3 and TT 1.1 was released by Greg Hudson and featured more advanced trigger support. In May 1990 TinyWar 1.1.4 was released by Leo Plotkin which was based on TinyTalk 1.0 and added support for event-driven programming. The first MUD client with a notable amount of features was Tinytalk by Anton Rang in January 1990, for Unix-like systems.