Playing via terminal/telnet
Posted: 03 Feb 2021 07:06
Hello everyone!
If someone wants to play just via terminal/telnet, are there any commands one can use to enable any additional features, like ANSI colours or something? Or is what one sees after connecting already the “maximum” they can get without any “higher“ client. The web client is surprisingly nice (far better than I would have ever expected) but requires still a graphical browser (and a video adapter, etc). Without that need I could think immediately of three more situations, I could login where I currently wouldn’t be able to (some a far from standard, but some are not even that exotic, like my TV for example which struggles with the JavaScript I think, but would do just fine over telnet).
I probably like MUDs and text based Interfaxes in general, but I think one of the biggest strengths I always saw in MUDs was that they don’t need any client (which isn’t available absolutely everywhere as long as there is an Internet connection). Now while one CAN play Genesis via telnet already, I doubt anyone would want to (but maybe there is more possible and just don’t know about it). Also does Genesis support unicode somehow? Like also maybe with some command to be enabled? Because so far whenever I use Unicode accidentally, it just doesn’t end well (and lpmud in general would support it - I have seen it supported as well as colours). So I hope there is still more I might just know of yet.
Thanks
If someone wants to play just via terminal/telnet, are there any commands one can use to enable any additional features, like ANSI colours or something? Or is what one sees after connecting already the “maximum” they can get without any “higher“ client. The web client is surprisingly nice (far better than I would have ever expected) but requires still a graphical browser (and a video adapter, etc). Without that need I could think immediately of three more situations, I could login where I currently wouldn’t be able to (some a far from standard, but some are not even that exotic, like my TV for example which struggles with the JavaScript I think, but would do just fine over telnet).
I probably like MUDs and text based Interfaxes in general, but I think one of the biggest strengths I always saw in MUDs was that they don’t need any client (which isn’t available absolutely everywhere as long as there is an Internet connection). Now while one CAN play Genesis via telnet already, I doubt anyone would want to (but maybe there is more possible and just don’t know about it). Also does Genesis support unicode somehow? Like also maybe with some command to be enabled? Because so far whenever I use Unicode accidentally, it just doesn’t end well (and lpmud in general would support it - I have seen it supported as well as colours). So I hope there is still more I might just know of yet.
Thanks