Windows Palace Server 4.4 Manual
Welcome to The Palace!
The Palace software and tools let have fun building a graphical chat and perhaps even build on in your existing Website. The Palace is a diverse online world of communities that you can explore to socialize, learn from, and exchange ideas with other users.
Using The Palace Server software, you can create your own Palace site. This site is your own personal graphical chat environment that can host an unlimited number of users.
Setting up a Palace is quick and easy. In fact, you can create your own custom Palace in minutes, using standard room art or even importing your own. You then can customize your site as much as you want with different rooms, artwork, and even executable scripts. When you get to be a more advanced operator, you can then learn an endless number of advanced interactive tricks and shortcuts with Iptscrae the programming language that comes with The Palace software.
This manual documents how to set up your own Palace personal server. For information on The Palace and how to use its interface, see The Palace User Guide.
The Palace community has three types of users:
- Owners (also known as administrators or gods) are the superusers of their Palace servers. By default, you are the owner of your own Palace, and can give this capability to others by giving them your owner password. Your role as the owner includes creating, maintaining, running and evolving your Palace Site. Palace owners can run all Palace commands, and possess a special set of their own; these are fully documented in The Palace Wizard's Guide. You execute owner commands through your Palace client while connected to your server. To do this, you establish an owner password for the client.
- Operators (also known as wizards) are "power users" you entrust with special powers and responsibilities on your site. By default, you are also an operator of your own site. Operators can create and destroy rooms, alter room-level scripts, ban unruly users, and generally run the place. Some operators lean more toward the design angle of the job, concentrating on creating new rooms and room-level Scripts, while others prefer the social angle, and spend their time hanging out in The Palace, keeping things moving, interesting, and within community standards.
Like owner capabilities, operator capabilities are enabled on The Palace client through a operator password you establish for your site. You can let others be operators by giving them this password. Operator capability is described in more detail in The Palace Wizards Guide.
- Users are the people who visit your and other Palace sites using The Palace client software. There are currently two types of Palace clients: Instaant Palace, which is web-based applet (you can even embed it into your own web page, but its complicated to make it work on homecomputers) and The Palace User software, which is a standalone application you can download from the PalacePlanet website.
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