Other MOO clients

Fanderclai, Tari. "Mud Client Help."  Connections website. 1994-2001. http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~tari/connections/client-info.html (April 8, 2002)

About Mud clients

A MUD client is a program written especially for connecting to MUDs (MOOs are forms of MUDs).

You can download some MUD clients that are freeware, and some that are shareware. You can choose very simple MUD clients if you just want to be able to connect to Acadiana and communicate with others; you can also find MUD clients that have lots of fancy features such as macros and local editing (so that if you're trying to write a note or program a verb, for example, instead of going to the in-MOO note editor or verb editor, both of which are very clumsy, you can open a window in your client, write your note or code there, and upload it to the MOO).

tkMOO light

tkMOO-light is written and maintained by Andrew Wilson. It's freeware. tkMOO-light is available for Windows, Mac, and Unix platforms. That makes it especially useful for classes, since no matter what platform a class member uses, s/he will see the same interface, making it easy for the teacher to give instructions for using the client. tkMOO-light offers local editing, logging, and many user-configurable options.

Other clients recommended by MOO users: these require configuration specific to your MOO

Windows clients

SimpleMu : Easy to install and very nicely done. It's shareware, but it isn't expensive and it has an unlimited evaluation period.

Pueblo: A long-time favorite of many MOOers. Freeware. Pueblo is no longer supported and there is no official distribution site, but there are several places where people have kept it online.  Here is one:

• http://www.engl.niu.edu/mday/529/pblo201.exe

Mac clients

MUDDweller : One of the most commonly-used Mac clients. Freeware.  No longer under development.

Savitar : This is really nice, and its page offers tons of documentation. Inexpensive shareware.

Unix clients

TinyFugue : An old standby for Unix users; works on Linux. If you need a Unix client for a class, see if your site admin will install this on the system rather than having each individual install a copy in his/her home directory. Not only will you have more hair left; your site admin will like you better. Freeware. mud.el and some variants: If you want to mud from inside Emacs, try mud.el or one of its variants. Warning: these are mostly not well-documented. Freeware.

In each case you will have to do your own configuration.

Finding other MUD clients

If you want to check out lots of MUD clients to see what you like best, I suggest you use a web search engine.

Search for MUD clients with Google .

Search for MUD clients with Altavista .

You'll turn up many MUD users' pages listing lots and lots of MUD clients with information about features, system requirements, and download sites. Note when the lists you find were last updated--many people put up lists of MUD clients, but few keep them up to date; a list that hasn't been updated in a year or so is likely to have a lot of broken links and outdated information.