Dwarf Fortress client? (DFterm?)

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Hi,


Dwarf Fortress is a massively simulationist "roguelike" (sort of) game that runs on Win/Linux PCs. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/


Has anyone gotten it working with the Pandora as client? There seems to be a cool client available: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=50643.0


There also seems to be an ascii mode for playing over straight ssh, or maybe not? http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=45283.0


Has anyone tried this? I imagine there are a lot of cool things that cold be done with a customized client for Openpandora.


Cheers

 

[skeezix]

DF has a remote client protocol?


Wow, I did not know that


Traditionally, they've said DF itself has too much resource requirements to make it port-sensible, so a few folks just place via ssh; but a remote client? how cute is that


I have no time however, but ra-ra for someone else


jeff

 

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I was mistaken on DFterm, it is a middleware that lets you telnet-in to the DF server.


On the client side one just uses telnet. Here it is running on N900: http://1.1.1.1/bmi/img836.imageshack.us/img836/4016/dfterm208nokian900.png


One cool thing it allows is multiple connections, with a chat window, for players and spectators.


Fun stuff!


EDIT: "If you are only interested in remote play on Linux through ssh or telnet, all you need is PRINT_MODE:TEXT in DFs configuration and ssh server and client. No dfterm2 is needed. You can use dfterm2 if you want to use it for its other features."