Hello,
Any chance anyone can walk me through installing TinTin? Jake can I
have your MSN and things offlist? And yeah, I wanna get used to the
terminal as well because when I press L for look it doesn't seem to
auto-read, and this is just with the regular mac telnet client.
Orin
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On Mar 21, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi Everyone
I know this has come up before, the question of how we can play Muds
on the Mac. After doing a lot of experiments, I now have a method of
playing Muds using OS X and Voiceover, and I thought I'd share it
here.
I use tintin++ in a terminal window to play. The reason I focused on
this method is that tt has always been my favorite Mud client, and I
had a lot of triggers and such that I didn't want to have to redo,
and terminal reads reasonably well with Voiceover to begin with.
Point-by-point, here's what I consider the important issues and how
I address them. Others might have different priorities and different
viewpoints.
auto-reading:
Terminal's auto-reading is mostly sufficient for mudding, as long as
you keep two important things in mind: any text that is identical
and on the same line doesn't get read, and everything else will auto-
read as long as it's not a direct result of your actions. The only
time the first point is an issue is when your prompt doesn't change,
and I, personally, don't want to here the prompt read every single
time anyway. More important in my mind is the second point, meaning
that anything that happens as a direct result of your pressing
return to acknowledge the command will not auto-read. So, if you go
north, the room name and other such things will not auto-read.
However, if there's a delay, of even a half second or so, between
when you press enter and any text appearing, auto-reading will kick
in again. It takes a bit of getting used to, but I've grown to like
it, to be honest.
sound triggers:
If you use tintin, in order to have sounds played as part of a
trigger or alias, you'll need a command-line audio player, and one
is not installed with OS X by default. However, source for one is
included in the XCode developer tools, and it can easily be compiled
with a few commands.
Finally, VO's keys can take some getting used to while playing Muds,
and I'd recommend making use of the numpad commander to get a layout
that suits you.
Other notes:
This is not restricted to tintin, any unix-based console Mud client
will follow this pattern, so if you prefer something else feel free
to use it. The auto-reading and other behaviors will be the same,
though how you handle audio files and triggers will, of course,
vary. Also, this will only work in Leopard, as Tiger has serious
issues with reading terminal which prevent it from being very useful
for playing Muds. Feel free to contact me if you need any help or
want to try this and aren't sure about something.
Hope this was of some help. As I said, this is what works for me, it
may not for anyone else.
