[crossfire] Telnet support
Mitch Obrian
mikeeusaaa at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 22 22:59:25 CST 2005
Why always the "go and do it yourself" answer?
--- Mark Wedel <
mwedel at sonic.net
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Mitch Obrian wrote:
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> Id like the ability to telnet to a paticular port
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and
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> play crossfire nethack style (perhapse with 3x3
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tiles
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> rather than 1x1 ascii tiles) we have 16x16
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(forground
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> and background) color combos to use... acc 1x1
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ascii
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> tiles would be cool to (whichever..)... also maby
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put
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> in another port to play it like a MUD. This way
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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.
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What you describe above is an ASCII based client.
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If you want one, go and
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make one.
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I think for a lot of reasons, development of ASCII
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clients hasn't gone much of
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anywhere. It is fairly tricky, because there are
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thousands of graphics in
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crossfire, so trying to find ascii codes to show
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them is very difficult.
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No way will that code ever be in the server -
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first, as said, it is a client
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issue. It is also a step backwards (From
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client/server we currently have). It
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also adds a lot of complication and adds new
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dependencies that the server does
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not have.
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Now, if it is too much a bother for players to
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install an ascii client (if one
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was ever developed), a site could certainly have the
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ascii client get launched
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when someone connects to a specific port. The
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client would then connect to
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whatever server (it wouldn't be hard to make it such
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that a client is hard bound
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to a specific server, such as the one running on the
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same machine).
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In terms of the 'old' telnet support, that is
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still there. Just connect to
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port 13327, and type 'oldsocketmode'. You can then
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do the various old commands.
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> --- Robert Brockway <
rbrockway at opentrend.net
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wrote:
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>>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Mitch Obrian wrote:
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>>
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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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>>
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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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