[crossfire] Telnet support

Sat Jan 22 22:41:49 CST 2005

Mitch Obrian wrote:
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      Id like the ability to telnet to a paticular port and

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      play crossfire nethack style (perhapse with 3x3 tiles

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      rather than 1x1 ascii tiles) we have 16x16 (forground

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      and background) color combos to use... acc 1x1 ascii

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      tiles would be cool to (whichever..)... also maby put

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      in another port to play it like a MUD. This way we'd

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      get more players as people have specific ways they

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      like to play. Nethack style port would be awome

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      because then people could play while in my shell

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      server :D.

  What you describe above is an ASCII based client.  If you want one, go and 
make one.

  I think for a lot of reasons, development of ASCII clients hasn't gone much of 
anywhere.  It is fairly tricky, because there are thousands of graphics in 
crossfire, so trying to find ascii codes to show them is very difficult.

  No way will that code ever be in the server - first, as said, it is a client 
issue.  It is also a step backwards (From client/server we currently have).  It 
also adds a lot of complication and adds new dependencies that the server does 
not have.

  Now, if it is too much a bother for players to install an ascii client (if one 
was ever developed), a site could certainly have the ascii client get launched 
when someone connects to a specific port.  The client would then connect to 
whatever server (it wouldn't be hard to make it such that a client is hard bound 
to a specific server, such as the one running on the same machine).

  In terms of the 'old' telnet support, that is still there.  Just connect to 
port 13327, and type 'oldsocketmode'.  You can then do the various old commands.

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     On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Mitch Obrian wrote:

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     Was wondering if telnet support in the crossfire

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     server could be revialised, or perhapse even code

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     nethack-like telnet support into the server so

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     players

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     who like such styles can connect and play that

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     way? It

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     could all be done through telnet.

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     I liked the old ability to telnet to a particular

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     port and talk to people 

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     playing on the server.  That was cool :)

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     Rob

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