February 6th, 1996
Pueblo is a network MUD (multi-user dimension) game client for Windows 95 and NT (See below for info on the status of other platforms) that brings you together with other fun-loving folks on the internet. We think that if we bring different cultures, ages, and backgrounds together on the internet, we can make the world a much nicer place.
Pueblo supports both normal text MUDs and enhanced MUDs with hypertext (HTML), 2D graphics (GIF, JPEG, BMP), 3D graphics (VRML), and sound (MIDI, WAV). It is easy to add support for multimedia to a normal MUD server. Chaco has patches for many mud server types and general instructions for other mud server types on our web page at http://www.chaco.com/products/servers.
Pueblo is free for non-commercial use. If you're interested in using it commercially, email us at info@chaco.com, and we'll see what we can do together. If you're not making money from Pueblo, just have fun!
The point of Pueblo is to make sure you get the most out of MUDs. So, when an improvement idea for Pueblo crosses your mind, drop us a line. If you see a bug, let us know immediately so we can fix it. Just send mail to pueblo-support@chaco.com.
For more info on Pueblo via the World-Wide Web, surf over to: http://www.chaco.com/pueblo
Thanks for helping bring the world together!
The Pueblo Development Team
Pritham Shetty
Ron Lussier (Coyote)
Dan Greening (Pingbot)
Jim Doubek
Glenn Crocker (Wizard)
To get the Pueblo beta for Win95 or NT, ftp to ftp3.chaco.com, cd users/gcrocker/public/hidden, set binary mode for the transfer, and get pblo100.exe. The current file date and size info is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 1166 users 3244905 Feb 2 22:03 pblo100.exe
(The URL for this file is:
ftp://ftp3.chaco.com/users/gcrocker/public/hidden/pblo100.exe )
A version of Pueblo for Windows 3.1 is currently being beta-tested, and will be released in the next couple of weeks.
A version of Pueblo for Unix is in development currently. It should be released in a few months.
We don't currently have a version of Pueblo for the Macintosh in the works, but we'd love to do one. We're a small company, so we have to wait until someone licenses something from Chaco for the Mac to do a port. We're working actively on setting up that kind of license now.
If you're interested in using Pueblo commercially, we can port it to whatever platform you require, as part of the license of Pueblo for commercial use. Contact us at info@chaco.com for more info.
This is the second public release of the Pueblo client. In this release we've added the following new features. Let us know if you run into problems, and we'll do our best to fix them as soon as possible. Because of our modular architecture, it's easy for us to fix bugs and distribute upgraded versions of our modules, so Pueblo should improve more rapidly than most software you're used to.
Pueblo is distributed on the Internet as a self-extracting executable. You should extract Pueblo to a temporary directory, and you can delete this directory after pueblo installs. Note that this version of Pueblo only works on Windows 95 and Windows NT. A Windows 3.1 version is in the works.
To extract Pueblo, simply run the executable. Pueblo will ask you for a directory to extract to, using your TEMP directory as a default. When the files are extracted, Pueblo will then run the install program. (If you prefer not to run self-extracting archives, you can use 'pkunzip -d' to unzip the executable, then run 'disk1\setup'.)
When the installation is finished, you should clean up the contents of your TEMP directory. Pueblo will have created three directories, disk1, disk2, and disk3. You can delete these directories using the deltree or rmdir /s command. (If you want to put Pueblo onto floppy disks to install on a friend's computer, just copy the contents of each of these directories onto a 1.44 meg floppy and run the setup.exe program on disk 1 to start the installation.)
Once Pueblo is extracted, you can run it from the Program Manager or the File Manager. The program name is 'Pueblo.exe'. (On Windows NT or Windows95, you can run Pueblo from the command line.)
Pueblo will ask you to agree to our beta agreement. If you press 'Accept', the program will run. (If you don't accept you can't use the program. Sorry. The lawyers made us do it. ;-) You'll only be asked this once for each version of the program you use.
When the login dialog box appears, select a user name and enter the password you wish to use, then press the 'Create New Account' button. (Note that the button will be disabled until you type a username, and a password that is at least 6 characters long.) If someone is already using the name you've selected, you'll be asked to enter another one. If you don't want to have to enter your password each time you run Pueblo, click on the "Remember password" checkbox.
After you press the 'Create New Account' button, Pueblo will ask you for some information on yourself. When you've filled in the information, your account will be created.
Your Pueblo account allows you to download world lists from us. We intend to keep these world lists up-to-date, eliminating worlds that no longer exist and adding worlds that we discover. If we're missing a world that you would like to let us know about, you can send a letter to world-list@Chaco.com. Include the world name, address, and a short description of the world. If you wish, you can also suggest a category for the world (i.e., Educational, Social, etc.)
Note: Your Pueblo account is not associated with the names and passwords you use on individual worlds. It's just how the Pueblo server keeps track of you. Also, all of your mud traffic goes directly from your machine to your mud, NOT through our server (we don't have that much bandwidth!). The Pueblo server just keeps track of who's using Pueblo, what worlds are popular, etc.
Later you may press the 'Sign on' button to use the account. Simply select the user name (we keep track of them in a pop-up list box), enter your password, and press the 'Sign on' button.