C.h.a.p.t.e.r 7: ReSearch


What follows are suggestions for How to research the various themes--MUDs/MOOs--discussed and exemplified on the Net and the WWW.

(If you should need additional help with using the search engines referred to below, then turn to Appendix A in CR2 and to the Appendices on line. And if you should have any questions or suggestions, simply drop me a note at VVitanza@aol.com and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.)



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If you point your browser to WebCrawler and search simply for "MOO" and not MUD, with such a broad topic you will get quite a few hits. (If you include MUD, yes, you will get mud, i.e., wet dirt. Even with MOO, you will get references to cows!) I set the hits at 100 and this is what I discovered:

The query "MOO" found 453 documents and returned 100:

1000 Official Cult Song
0578 The MOO User's Guide
0577 Lots of MOO...
0260 MOO-WWW Research Directory.
0203 Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs)
0181 Miami MOO
0178 More about MOOs
0177 MOO Resources
0168 MOO-WWW Links - Research Guide and Resource Information.
0154 CRASHPAD MOO
0147 Alf's MOO Info
0144 mmMOO
0144 You can MOO too
0128 1848 MOO Web Server Page
0128 http://wwwsc.library.unh.edu/Systems/mudmoo.htm
0128 The Virtual Headquarters
0126 CTP: Hosting: ATHE MOO Project
0115 The WWW VL: Educational Technology - Educational VR (MUD) sub-page (29-Jun-1995)
0114 The Lost Library of MOO
0110 BayMOO Home Page
0108 Cows Caught in the Web
0087 http://moo.cs.uwindsor.ca:7777/
0087 Collaborative Information Retrieval: Gopher from MOO
0087 the sprawl home page
0085 ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO/papers/MOOGopher.txt
0083 ChibaMOO - HyperLab
0082 Jay's House MOO @who listing
0080 Mobilis in Mobili: Cyberculture
0078 http://arthur.rutgers.edu:8888/
0072 Internet VR Sites
0070 Web+MOO=WOO! (About ChibaMOO)
0070 Introduction to the Internet - Class notes
0069 gopher://gsep.pepperdine.edu/00/gsep/technical/mud- moo/new-archwiz-faq.txt
0068 CardiffMOO
0067 Other Resources
0064 WOO Transaction Protocol
0064 http://wwwsc.library.unh.edu/Systems/bysub.htm
0060 The Distributed Real-Time Groove Network
0060 http://hpsoft1.napier.ac.uk/~tsa237/
0059 Spif's Writing Lab Home Page
0057 ZEBU: UO Physics WEB Server
0057 LinguaMOO
0057 Alf's Homepage
0057 Welcome to MOOtropolis!
0055 Whitehead's Homepage 2.0
0052 Big Dave's Cow Page
0051 ShadMOO Manifesto v0.6
0051 Most Popular Sites on Earth
0050 Richard Bowen's Home Page
0048 TecfaMOO Home Page
0046 Entertainment:Games:MUDs, MUSHes, MUSEs, MOOs, etc.
0046 LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual - The LambdaMOO Database
0046 J's New Home
0045 Carla Gesell
0044 Scandem Conferencing
0044 LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual - Introduction
0044 gopher://actlab.rtf.utexas.edu/0/MUD/Research/Notes/ moo.gopher
0042 MOOsaico on the MOOvement
0038 Digital Field of Dreams
0038 http://dhalgren.english.washington.edu/
0037 Multics Library
0035 Calendar of Events
0035 MOOtiny home page
0035 The 1.8.x planned feature list
0035 BOVINE Physics/Astronomy/Environmental Science/Weather Resources
0035 Farm Pictures
0035 BOVINE Physics/Astronomy/Environmental Science/Weather Resources

0034 ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/unite/files/jays_house.txt
0034 http://sensemedia.net/papers
0033 Final Frontiers (A Star Trek RPG)
0033 http://duke.cs.brown.edu:8888/
0030 LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual - Table of Contents
0029 MUD WWW implementations
0029 http://duke.cs.brown.edu:8888/viewer=sav/lang=English/ obj=2430
0029 Faculty in the Physics Department
0029 U.C. Berkeley Instructional Technology Program Home Page
0029 Mobilis in Mobili: Literature
0028 How to contribute
0027 Abrams Gentile Entertainment Inc's Home Page
0027 Daedalus Group Home Page
0027 Welcome to Simon!
0027 Randy's Funky Anchortown Homepage!
0027 Class #1 Transcript
0026 Welcome to JHM!
0025 Cult of the Golden Cow
0025 Pyro's Page
0025 JIM DIXON
0025 Andrew Wilson
0025 English as a Second Language Home Page
0025 Drillbit
0025 Amit Patel
0025 Internet front end (Info Bank)
0024 NMIA Home Page
0024 Internet front end (Info Bank)
0023 ftp://ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/net/moo/manuals/referencia- rapida.html
0023 GNA Course Submission Form
0022 Patrick Crispen's Internet Roadmap Course
0022 The TechMOOseum
0022 ENSP 482: Theory and Practice of Hypertext
0021 Cyberspace Writing Center Consultation Project

About 80% of the hits are either MUDs/MOOs or information about them, and much of it is extremely valuable not only in that it gets you to a MOO but it also tells you precisely what to do when you get there. For example, if you follow the second item on the list, The MOO User's Guide, you get:

The FredNet MOO
The FredNet MOO: Specialized texts for the FredNet MOO, also an entry spot for the MOO.

The Complete Guide to LambdaMOO
  General Commands: The help system text for the MOO commands.
  Editor Commands: The MOO commands found in the editors.
  Programmer Commands: The commands specifically for MOO programmers.
  Wizard Commands: Commands reserved for wizards.

If you follow General Commands under LambdaMOO, you get:

* summary
  * "
  * :
  * ::
  * ?
  * @add-entrance
  * @add-exit
  * @addroom
  * @addword
  * @answer
  * @audit
  * @bug
  * building
  * burn
  * @check
  * @classes
  * @comment
(etc.)

If you follow summary, you get:

SUMMARY
Help is available on the following general topics:
introduction -- what's going on here and some basic commands
index -- index into the help system
players -- setting characteristics of yourself
movement -- moving yourself between rooms
communication -- communicating with other players
manipulation -- moving or using other objects
miscellaneous -- commands that don't fit anywhere else
building -- extending the MOO
(etc.)


What you have here, then, are all of the commands necessary to function in the MOO known as LamdaMOO.



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