Anyone play any MUD games on the pandora?

[ExquisiteCorpse]

I was browsing the debian repos and came across Mudlet....a few hours later and I'm well into Threshold

(For anyone wondering MUD games are basically text MMORPG's)

 

[FaeMinx]

Many years ago I use to be a MUCK addict (multi user chat kingdom)... particularly The Secret Of Nimh Muck and Redwall Muck.

However, this was still when we had dial up internet, so one day my parents took me aside and gave me a serious talking to... then showed me the phone bill.

Next day I tearfully orchestrated some scenes where every last one of my characters died...

Don't have the time these days for that sort of thing... but in honesty, the thought of portable mucking was one of the reasons that inspired me to buy the Pandora in the first place...

So how does this program work? Can you PND it up?

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

I actually just had a look on the repo and can't see any mud clients available.

I'm using Pandian though and you can install a few different ones from there. The best seems to be mudlet which is quite nice looking and you can map buttons to words etc.

Mudlets source code is here so presumeably it can be pnd'd.

http://www.mudlet.org/download/

 

[skeezix]

You don't really need a mud client.. telnet will do, usually

I did MUME for awhile years ago on Pandora, and a few others (descendants of MUDs I used to play 15+ years ago mostly..) .. I was always a fan of diku-style combat MUDs, and some of the LPmuds. (I wrote a couple shitty mud engines, and built up an LP mud engine and such, back in the day too. Ahh ,good times

Pandora does okay except when you're doing PvP.. forget it then

jeff

 

[ExquisiteCorpse]

Yeah I initially was playing on Tintin++ which is a glorified telnet client.

Mudlet is nice though as it can provide certain graphical tweaks (if that game supports it like health monitor etc)

If anyone wants to join me on threshold or realms of despair let me know

 

[WizardStan]

Telnet "will do" in the same way that a bicycle will get you from point A to point B.

A good client does so much more. I haven't played any muds since second year university when I basically gave up on (social) life.

 

[skeezix]

Hey, you can telnet to a webserver too. You spoilt rich kids with their 'browsers' and 'shoes'!

 

[moxie]

Mmmm...NannyMUD *reminisce*

 

[ckblackm]

Those things still exist?  Heh.. haven't been on a MUD in over 20 years (back in college)..

Next you'll be telling me that Nettrek's still around.

Christopher.