AlphaWorld and Active Worlds
Green Planet
Get the book!Avatars book readers! Your version of Active Worlds on the book CD-ROM will no longer work, please download the new Active Worlds version from http://www.activeworlds.com
The World
Run, don't walk to download the Active Worlds Browser and begin exploring and building in AlphaWorld and the Active Worlds universe. With Active Worlds, you can homestead your very own place in Cyberspace! Visit this huge complex of cityscapes straight out of Snowcrash and join in the fun with some of 300,000 other registered citizens and tourists. The avatar block party is 24 hours a day at AlphaWorld ground zero! Jack in to the metaverse Active Worlds Browser! Activeworlds.com is the owner and developer of Active Worlds.
Get It!
Download Active Worlds Browser from: http://www.activeworlds.com
Size of download: approx 2.0 MB
Hard disk resources: approx 20 to hundreds of Megs (depending on your travels)
Platforms Supported: Windows 95/98, NT
Macintosh (under Windows emulation) specs:
PowerMac G3 with 80 MB of RAM (or more) ( 604 at 132 MHz or better) Mac OS 8.1 (or better) SoftWindows 95 or 98 version 5.0.4 (or better) with at least 54 MB of RAM allocated to SW (tested, it works!).
Setup: Simple, self installing EXE file
Cost: Enter as a tourist for free, pay $20 per year for building privileges and custom avatars, you can also buy a server and host own world
What happens there
In the Active Worlds virtual cityscapes you can interact with other citizens through text chat and build as easy as using Lego. And some of the Active Worlds universe's tens of thousands of users have filled a huge space with over sixty million objects! Active Worlds have other features, including music and sound effects, letting you jam and dance with avatars that can move through articulation. The Contact Consortium and its members even built a town in Active Worlds called Sherwood Forest and hosted an architecture competition in our virtual university, called TheU and the third annual avatars conference, Avatars98, within Active Worlds. Explore the web of over 500 Active Worlds such as Metropolis, Yellowstone Park, and even try the runs on a ski hill with gravity that works!
Some snapshots from
Active Worlds
Click here to see a wedding in AlphaWorld
NASA Mission Control live shuttle mission
How about Skiing!
"High altitude" view of the center of AlphaWorld
Dancing to the music at ground zero
Active Worlds Hot and Useful Sites
Active Worlds are evolving many new services all the time. We suggest you check out the AWCOMMUNITY and other sites (listed below) to get news about AlphaWorld and other worlds.
Active Worlds Official Sites
Home of Active Worlds Activeworlds.com
Download your new release of the Active Worlds Browser
Get an introduction to the Active Worlds community here
Active Worlds Unofficial Citizen Sites
Active Worlds Universes, Worlds, and Community Sites
Explore OuterWorlds, a brand new AW Universe full of beautifully designed worlds, games, and a supportive and growing citizenry!
The hub of all AW citizenry, the AWCOMMUNITY site at http://www.awcommunity.org
New World Times, the original AW newspaper, see an example of it at: http://www.synergycorp.com/nwt/nwt2.htm
The largest web resource for Active Worlds is the Official Webring, explore the community through this resource.
SW City, a large city populated with PHP-driven non player characters and a virtual nation state of towns.Active Worlds Projects
The Contact Consortium Projects for Avatars98 and Sherwood Forest and TheU Virtual University
Note: many of the links below may no longer be working, they could possibly be found by entering them into the WayBackMachine at The Internet Archive.Active Worlds Citizen Information Services
AlphaWorld Police Department
Other Citizen Sites
Articles and Bulletins
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