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Teleporting To Other "Zones"

May 6, 1996

Last issue we talked about teleporting to sites within AlphaWorld using disk files, which some people refer to as "Desktop Teleport." Now that we have the ability to teleport to different worlds, or "zones," let's talk about how to add these abilities to your desktop and web-page teleports.

The concept is very simple. Without changing from your present world, you can teleport by telling alphaworld the coordinates you want to go to. To switch worlds, all you have to do is add the doman name and port from which the server in question is available. If you look in your AWORLD.INI file in the \AWORLD directory on your hard drive, you'll see these two lines.

port=7777
host=alphaworld.worlds.net

So, to get back to AlphaWorld from one of the other zone, we can add this information. For instance, say we have a file that teleports to Grand Central Telestation from elsewhere in AlphaWorld:

TELEPORT 8096N 0W 0.3A

...or on a web page, it would look like this:

href="http://www.worlds.net/cgi-bin/teleport?8096N_0W"

To make this always take you back to Grand Central Station in AlphaWorld, no matter what world you are in, just change it to include the domain and port information:

TELEPORT alphaworld.worlds.net:7777 8096N 0W 0.3A

or

href="http://www.worlds.net/cgi-bin/teleport?alphaworld.worlds.net:7777_8096N_0W"

Right now all the servers are running from the same machine so the domain name is always the same, the only thing that varies is the port number. Telepark is 7010, Wild West is 7013, Cyborg Nation is 7011, and Colony Alpha is 7009. With a little experimentation (and possible a re-read of last issue's article) you should be able to flit around between worlds at will! If you're having trouble with the web-page stuff don't forget that you can use the Grand Central Telestation Teleport Page as an example.

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