From: uhgall@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Gall)
Subject: Re: APPS: MUD/shared worlds
Date: 14 Mar 1996 20:13:12 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD., University of Erlangen


From: uhgall@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Ulrich Gall)

In <4i4orq$ls@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> alexia!gbnewby@uunet.uu.net (Gregory B. Newby) writes:


>(Probably someone is under the impression that I'm giving away an
>original idea of theirs.  Sorry...it's obvious.  But exciting.)

>The idea isn't to create yet another game/interaction environment per
>existing MUDs, IRC "doom," etc.  But to develop the infrastructure so
>that shared worlds of any type could be developed for any purpose.

We are working on something like that-- not really for MUDs,, but,
more general, for any type of communication between a number of
internet users. We have already implemented a IRC-like chat and a
whiteboard applet (or, Commlet, as we call them).  This could very
easily be used to put something on top.

You can try a beta version at http://rzcip28.rrze.uni-erlangen.de:8888/

There is also more info available.  We encourage everyone to implement
commlets to run under our system. The programming interface is very
easy.