Wonderland Disappointment, but OpenSim Wonder

Katherine W. Prawl — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:56:05 +0000

While I did get Wonderland’s client to load and run finally, I was not able to run the server software because of an undefined error, and when I logged into the server being run temporarily for this test at Drexel University, I was unable to see anything except text chat, and the other people online couldn’t even see my text, although they could see my avatar. Apparently trying to run the client on a virtual machine with poor graphics support is just not going to cut it. I was using OpenSUSE Linux on a Parallels VM on my Intel iMac.

That was discouraging. The Wonderland software is available for Mac OS, but only up to version 10.4, and I’m running 10.5. Maybe I can compile the source code for 10.5, since Apple claims “Leopard can compile and run all your existing UNIX code”, but I’m not quite ready to do that just now.

However, a day or two after the Wonderland test I was reading the documentation for OpenSim when I saw that they offer a Subversion (SVN) download for MacOS X, and mentioned that OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has SVN pre-installed. So, what the heck, I pulled up a Terminal window to verify that yes, SVN is there, and keyed in the command to download OpenSim. It worked like a charm, although I should probably have done it on my external hard disk so I can play with it on Phil’s laptop while we’re driving tomorrow. Maybe I’ll do that anyway. It’s about 68 MB, which is smaller than I expected. It would certainly be fun to have my own region available to play in while we’re traveling and not online!

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Wonderland Disappointment, but OpenSim Wonder