Mooadmin Home Page

This is the page where I collect all the many, many links relevant to administering MOOs at NDSU (and elsewhere). This page is, guess what, permanently under construction.

History

Experts disagree, but the original MUD is often attributed to Richard A. Bartle

For a glimpse into a long-standing MUD society you can visit LegendMUD by Raph Koster

Clients

To visit a MOO you need a client program. These are some of the generically useful ones

tkMOO-light Editing Client for PC users
Or a local copy here if that fails.
The MacMOOSE Editing Client for Mac users is no longer available.
Curt Hill's MOOvia Client for Windows 95/98/NT is no longer supported.
Java Telnet (with a text-based interface)(currently unavailable)

Documentation

There are several documents online to assist you with operating and programming a MOO. Here are some of them.

Understanding LambdaMOO Networking
LambaMOO Programming Tutorial (by Brad Vender)
Online LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual (LambdaMOO Version 1.8.0p6, March 1997)
There are a number of copies online, both text and html versions, in a number of pretty similar versions: 1.8.0p6 is the most recent.
- A plain text version
- An HTML version from Bergen, Norway
- An HTML version on Hayseed.net
- and a local copy here if all those fail

NDSU Resources

There are a variety of things we've done that are generally useful. Here are some of them:

a draft of the Oit directive specification
@dump of the $g.genhistory object from Planet Oit so you can import history functionality into your MOO.
Tutoring in NDSU Virtual Worlds, the next generation.
Bug Trackers
Thanks to Nathan Green we have a way to store bugs (tracebacks) on the MOOs, which was one of our more vexing problems

NDSU Projects

There are several projects ongoing at NDSU. These are the links to them, as of this moment (8Sep01)

Fishhook
Blackwood
Dollar Bay
The Geology Explorer Planet Oit
The ProgrammingLand MOOseum
The Virtual Cell

Other, Miscellaneous, Mostly Broken, Links

We have so many things going it's hard to keep track. Here's some stuff, for what it's worth.

The dynamic, interactive map of Planet Oit
The dynamic, interactive map of Blackwood (not ready yet)
See the World Wide Web interface to Blackwood at
http://lions.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu:7778/
The initial help files (currently unavailable)
The Retail Game Advice Network (currently unavailable)
You are welcome to visit the Dollar Bay Games' HTTP server.

Original page by Brad Vender. Modified by Brian Slator, Mar 5, 1998, and Jan 31, 1999; 6Sep01, 8Jan14
Contact: slator@cs.ndsu.edu