COMPARISON OF MOOSBURG WITH OTHER MOOs
MOOs reviewed:
Comparisons follow.
| EdMOO | MOOsburg |
|---|---|
| User interface cannot be customized | Interface can be customized to a certain extent, like controlling
fonts and colors, and VRML embedding etc. Click here to see list of available options |
| Features Drover, which allows users to make use of the capabilities of EdMOO interface even without having Java-enabled browsers. But the Drover application needs to be downloaded and installed prior to use. Also, Drover is only available for Windows 3.11 and Windows '95, so it excludes the wide class of UNIX users | No such additional feature is available, but a Web-only option is there for users without Java-enabled browsers. EdMOO does not feature a Web-only interface |
| Non-Java interface is currently not developed for the UNIX platform, so logging in from a UNIX terminal is usually troublesome. In this way they are missing out a big chunk of participants all over the world, who are used to working on UNIX-based systems | Works well with UNIX-based systems, so logging in from a UNIX terminal is never a problem |
| Login procedure is elaborate, especially for the guest user | Login process is straightforward and quick |
| Users can customize information about themselves from the web interface | Users cannot customize information about themselves from the web interface |
| Does not give a list of places that a user can visit, but it does provide a clickable map of the region so a user knows of the places he or she can visit in EdMOO | Does not provide a list of available places to visit, nor does it provide a clickable map |
| Claims to have VRML models of the MOO, but they are extremely difficult to locate | Features a crude VRML model of the MOO. Click here to view the VRML world offered by MOOsburg |
| Does not display photographs of the place it represents | Displays photographs of the place it represents |
| Does not log out user on connecting to an external site. The user can safely return to the session some time later | Logs off users on connecting to external site. This is a good feature. However, the user must be prompted with a choice to log out while trying to connect to another site |
| On resizing browser window, EdMOO works fine | On resizing browser window, telnet client goes blank and the message window is desensitized |
| BioMOO | MOOsburg |
|---|---|
| User interface can be customized to a certain extent. Click here to see list of available options | Interface can be customized only to a certain extent, like
controlling fonts and colors, and VRML embedding etc. Click here to see list of available options |
| Users can customize information about themselves form the web interface | Users cannot customize information about themselves from the web interface |
| Features a clickable map of the place | No clickable map is available |
| Features a crude VRML model of the MOO | Features a crude VRML model of the MOO. Click here to view the VRML world offered by MOOsburg |
| Users can post messages on the MOO | Users cannot post messages on the MOO |
| Features photographs/images of the place it represents | Features photographs/images of the place it represents |
| Does not log out user on connecting to an external site, but the telnet window goes blank. Logging out users in such situations would be desirable, because there is no guarantee when the user will return to the MOO | Logs off users on connecting to external site. This is a good feature. However, the user must be prompted with a choice to log out while trying to connect to another site |
| On resizing browser window, BioMOO works fine | On resizing browser window, telnet client goes blank and the message window is desensitized |
| DU MOO | MOOsburg |
|---|---|
| User interface can be customized to a great extent, like controlling
the display of icons, maps, banners, inventory, etc; users can choose not to talk to ghost
users. Click here to see list of available options |
Interface can be customized only to a certain extent, like
controlling fonts and colors, and VRML embedding etc. Click here to see list of available options |
| Users can customize information about themselves form the web interface | Users cannot customize information about themselves from the web interface |
| Features a clickable map of the place it represents | No clickable map is available |
| Features a crude VRML model of the MOO. Click here to view the VRML world offered by DU MOO |
Features a crude VRML model of the MOO. Click here to view the VRML world offered by MOOsburg |
| Users can post messages on the MOO | Users cannot post messages on the MOO |
| Does not feature any photographs/images of the place it represents | Features photographs/images of the place it represents |
| Does not log out user on connecting to an external site, but the telnet window goes blank. Logging out users in such situations would be desirable, because there is no guarantee when the user will return to the MOO | Logs off users on connecting to external site. This is a good feature. However, the user must be prompted with a choice to log out while trying to connect to another site |
| On resizing browser window, telnet client goes blank and the message window is desensitized | On resizing browser window, telnet client goes blank and the message window is desensitized |
| Harper's Tale | MOOsburg |
|---|---|
| Primarily a gaming MOO | Primarily an exploratory MOO |
| Features just a cup-o-mud Java client for the web interface. This is
not very different from opening a separate telnet window, but it is convenient. Click here to take a look at Harper Tale's MOOing interface |
Features a cup-o-mud client embedded in the Web interface. This adds tremendous power and functionality to MOOsburg |
| User interface cannot be customized | Interface can be customized to a certain extent, like controlling
fonts and colors, and VRML embedding etc. Click here to see list of available options |
