Chaco: Pueblo

Pueblo multimedia virtual world client

Notice!

Chaco Communications will no longer be able to support Pueblo, our multimedia Mud client. We are looking for parties interested in commercializing Pueblo and continuing its development.
If you are interested, please send email to Jamie Cohan (jamie@likeminds.com). Your email should explain how you intend to commercialize Pueblo, as well as your background and experience.

About Pueblo

With its release of the Pueblo multimedia MUD client, Chaco has made it possible for MUDs to create immersive virtual worlds, with sound, hypertext, 2D and 3D graphics. You can create an avatar (a 3D image of yourself), wander around a virtual space chatting with people, and click on doors to go places.

With minor modifications, any MUD can incorporate these new media types. Chaco's Pueblo protocol is well-documented from the Pueblo Help menu item. As of May 1996, more than 20 MUD servers support the Pueblo protocol and more are on the way. There are several MUD server source bases. Three of these, Mux, TinyMUSH and TeenyMUD, now provide built-in support for Pueblo. That means that new and upgraded worlds using these servers will automatically be Pueblo enhanced!

The Pueblo internet client is a multimedia virtual community client which works with existing MUDs and media formats. Pueblo can display 2D (GIF, JPEG, BMP) and 3D graphics (VRML), music (MIDI), audio (WAV), hypertext (HTML), and plain text. Pueblo is free for non-commercial use.

Pueblo 2.01 Official Release

Pueblo 2.01 is currently released for Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 3.1. A Unix version is in the works, and we are very interested in doing a Macintosh version.

The new features in Pueblo 2.01 are extensive, including the ability to incorporate Netscape-compatible plug-ins, multiplayer avatars, TinTin-compatible client macros and triggers, and the ability to run behind firewalls using SOCKS and proxy servers. Many new features are demonstrated in Chaco's tutorial MUD, PuebloMUSH II, which you can select under "Pueblo-enhanced Worlds" after downloading and running Pueblo 2.01.