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

The very interesting history of all things to do with MOO (and before, beside, after and beyond), can be found at the Online World Timeline 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
MacMOOSE Editing Client for Mac users.
Curt Hill's MOOvia Client for Windows 95/98/NT
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) (currently unavailable)
LambdaMOO Programmers Manual Online documentation about LambdaMOO.
This is the latest in a series of sites to host the programming manual.
LambdaMOO Programmers Manual Online documentation about LambdaMOO.
This link has recently been broken.
You can also download your own copy in text, DVI, LaTeX, or postscript version, and so forth, from ftp://ftp.lambda.moo.mud.org/pub/MOO/
See c42924-a.sttln1.wa.home.com
For more info on programming the MOO, and some good beginner's tutorials (this link is often down for some reason)

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)

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
Contact: slator@cs.ndsu.edu