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With respect to MUDs, I have used my Model 100 to play.?? Usually I use the keyboard and modem, and put incoming stream out to my parallel port, which has a parallel-to-serial interface going to my VT100 terminal, so I get a full screen display.
On 31/1/2013 9:06 AM, Gary L Phillips wrote:
You can use any terminal software, including even the built-in, to play MUDs, MUSHes, MUCKs, and so forth. They are just text. Most will require you to turn on local echo, though they do operate in full duplex and make use of simultaneous send and receive streams. Frequent players usually prefer a split screen with at least one line at the bottom devoted to input. Without that, partially typed input is often obscured by output that will scroll in while you are typing. Display output is often voluminous, so the ability to scroll back using function or arrow keys would also be desirable. The ability to set the size of the scrollback in lines or characters, and the ability to save a log to a file are usually provided in even minimal MUCK client software. Certainly the Model T computers could handle most of this, which requires just a few enhancements to the terminal software. I've not used John's improved terminal HTERM, but it may have most of this capability. These features are also useful for radioteletype (RTTY) and packet radio, so there may be a ham radio application out there for use on the M100/102/200 that could serve as well. I've played MUCKs a fair amount in past years, but due to the large amount of text displayed, always preferred a larger screen and haven't tried it on the M100. Generally you need a TCP/IP connection as well, which would mean connecting the M100 as a terminal to some other host. If the termcap/terminfo is good enough, then in that case some of the existing software for the intermediate host machine might do the job with the M100 simply serving as a terminal. One note about MUD vs. MUSH vs. MUCK: Though the concepts are very similar, each is a different line of host software with varying commands and macro languages. --Gary
