Subject: Re: MOO clients for Windows? (fwd)

From: "The Horror, The Horror" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 09:46:03 -0800

From:	Clay Luther <[email-masked]>
	Subject: Re: MOO clients for Windows? (fwd)
	To:	[email-masked]
	Date:	Wed, 3 Mar 1993 08:49:48 PST
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	All I was thinking was using
	(perhaps MIME) bitmaps to simply diplay pictures, such as of a room or of
	an object or player.  These would be more like thumbnails than accurate
	depictions of settings (I assume you meant you couldn't, for instance, place
	a person's picture in the proper location on a room's picture).
	
	All I am suggesting with MIME is the standard engine to encode/decode thumbnail
	bitmaps.

A standard engine would be preferable, as the happy person who creates
the clients could just evolve them instead of rewriting them.

Coordinates for bitmap placement on the client screen might be necessary
for immobile objects, as well as a "depth" dimension, for use in determining
what objects to display in the background, and the overlay sequence of the
other object bitmaps in the room. Crowded or cluttered rooms would be an
interesting problem...

Line drawings and text should satisfy our reqs in Santa Cruz, and probably
the needs of the Tech as well. I would suggest that the host which houses
the TechMOOseum might want to consider dial in lines so people can
dial in to the MOO over phone lines. Since this is the method we use
on our system in Santa Cruz, the plan is to do Unix, PC, Mac and Amiga 
clients which are essentially graphic frontends on top of a modem dialer.

As there is a plethora of public domain comm source for the various PC
and Unix platforms, putting together these clients should be easy
and straightforward.

Anyway, as I said, reports on progress will be posted as they occur.
This should be an interesting (and fun) summer.

ccn

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From: [email-masked] (Norman Ramsey)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 12:20:56 -0800

I mentioned MOO and MIME to our local MIME guru, Nathaniel Borenstein,
who was heavily involved in the development of MIME.  He says he has
received many requests for a MIME type that could handle images at low
bandwidth (e.g., simple line drawings, ...), but the nobody has
actually developed one that he knows of.  If someone here wants to
try, he is willing to help get you started.

Norman