Friday, July 30, 1999, 1:10:44 PM, Richard J. Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:47 PM 7/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Friday, July 30, 1999, 12:37:33 PM, Richard J. Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Look at http://www.activeworlds.com
>>
>>> No matter what you write or find, you won't find
>>> anything more suited to what you want than this.
>>
>>Activeworlds is quite nice, however it has draw backs.
>>It is quite CPU intensive, it is not multiplatform, requires
>>registration for the best experience (which is a cost of $20/user I
>>believe, it's been a while) and then you are depending on a server
>>that another company is running.
> It doesn't run well in under 32M. Apart from that, it works fine.
> There are emulators on the mac and unix that can run it on other
> platforms.
I've used wine under linux, and graphic intense apps don't run very
well at all. Even simple graphic viewers in email clients have a hard
time. Its far from ready for primetime.
I've not used the Mac win32 emulators.
Its an interesting development, but I don't think a solution like that
is really workable in the near future as a means of online
participation, especially looking at the costs.
As to IRC being a hostile place, I really don't experience that. IRC
can be a very friendly place. And right now, I don't see any other
freely available option that has the best chance of working for
everyone who wants to participate, regardless of their machine specs,
OS, financial condition, etc.
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