MOO-cows Mailing List Archive

Re: MOO-clients and V-campuses(Re: Setup Comments Please)

Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:33:53 PST
From:
Glenn Crocker <glenn@nimbus.som.cwru.edu>
cc: dchannon@sol.newcastle.edu.au, moo-cows.parc@xerox.com
In-Reply-to: "<9512191428.AA5507@CServe-Hub2.inhouse.compuserve.com>; from \"stacy.l.goodman\" at Dec 19, 95 12:16 am1"


>>.I have been given the job of setting up a virtual environment
>>based on the Lambda Moo so I am asking for comments and advice
>>to the best approach to satisfy the requirements.
>
>>The environment will be a virtual model of the university and the
>>students (1st year) will be using it contact staff and other student
>>and study ethics issues.
>
>>The environment is expected to be able to:
>>1) Log all connects e.g. The internet address.
>>2) Control connects e.g. Password or Access lists, friendl domains or sites.
>>3) Replace the builtin editor with Vi or some other full screen editor.
>>4) File storage exchange mechanisms. Local edit then send to the Moo or the 
>reverse.
>>5) Develop or modify a "Good" Client program.
>
>>Thank you for your help in advance, any and all advice is appreciated.
>
>> Regards David.
>
>I have been developing a campus-model environment with Andersen Consulting for 
>the uses of world-wide training and project collaboration.  We are currently 
>designing a client which incorporates not only MOO, but webservers, 
>white-boarding, GUI controls, FTP, local program file storage and retrieval 
>(powerpoint, word, corel, etc...), and 32-bit/3D graphics for the virtual 
>spaces. 
>
> We have already run a pilot for MOO-type training (The pilot tested that it 
>could be done, not that it was better than RL) across some of our offices in 
>Europe and Scandanavia.  We used a basic, pilot, version of our GUI client for 
>this endeavor (did not include white-boarding and 3D graphics), as we are still 
>in the R&D phase for the final product. 
>
>David,  if you or anyone else who reads this list is interested in 
>collaborating on this type of environment, I am always looking for additional 
>input, myself.  So, if you've been making a MOO-client or developing a virtual 
>campus..... let me know!

Check out Pueblo, at:  http://www.chaco.com/pueblo  It supports text MOOs,
ANSI, HTML, GIF/JPEG/BMP, MIDI, WAV, and 3d VRML graphics, and is shipping
today for Win95 and NT.

It's free for non-commercial use, and mud servers are starting to ship
with Pueblo support built in.

-glenn