[gopher] This game I have been working on might be of interest to Gopherites...

[Kevin Veroneau]

If any of you are on the #gopherproject IRC channel, you may have noticed a new presence there.  Today I enabled IRC chat integration into the game's already made chat system.  So now players of the game can seamlessly chat about gopher with people in the #gopherproject IRC channel.  Now you can seamlessly chat gopher while beta testing.  I will soon add gopher mailing list integration so that you can read through and reply back to messages on this list.

The gopher community is going to have a presence in this game whether they like it or not.  I'm honestly not sure if I should put a "just kidding" after this bold statement or not...  all I know is that after writing it, I couldn't stop laughing.

On February 14, 2015 6:13:41 PM MST, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:
>I had a beta tester online last night, and we were able to really test
>out the 
>chat system, and it seems to work near flawless.  He also runs on
>Windows, and 
>found that the web-based terminal had some interesting limits.  I was
>looking 
>into replacing this web client and using a full VT100 Terminal Emulator
>for a 
>little while now.  I finally updated the web client today and released
>it onto 
>the server. :)
>
>I used the VT100 Terminal Emulator from the awesome ShellInABox
>project, but 
>the connection to the actual server is custom.  It goes through
>WebSockets of 
>course, rather than AJAX.  I did some basic tests of the VT100 client
>code, 
>and so far it works almost the same as you would expect a UNIX Terminal
>
>Emulator to function.
>
>Nobody has redeemed any of the previous codes yet, so they are still up
>for 
>grabs.
>
>On February 12, 2015 08:31:27 AM Kevin Veroneau wrote:
>> I actually tried Putty last night and it doesn't follow RFC making it
>not
>> work sadly.  I am working on a vt100 emulator made in SDL, so it will
>be
>> fully cross platform, and even support game specific features.  This
>> client will also be able to play .MOD files as you play the game.  
>Not
>> sure why so many telnet clients out there don't follow RFC, and base
>their
>> settings solely on how the UNIX telnetd works.  I can't maintain a
>server
>> that supports every single type of client quirk.
>> 
>> On February 12, 2015 1:35:04 AM MST, Nuno Silva
><nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> 
>wrote:
>> >On 2015-02-11 12:25, Wolfgang Faust wrote:
>> >> On Feb 11, 2015 10:34 AM, "Kevin Veroneau" <kevin at veroneau.net>
>> >
>> >wrote:
>> >> > I also recently found out that the Windows telnet client(at
>least
>> >
>> >on XP)
>> >
>> >> doesn't work very well.
>> >> And Windows 7 doesn't come with a Telnet client at all--you have
>to
>> >
>> >know
>> >
>> >> the magic incantation to install it afterwards. If you haven't
>> >
>> >already, you
>> >
>> >> may want to consider implementing a web-based client. There are
>flash
>> >
>> >and
>> >
>> >> java-based ones that you can just plug your hostname into, or you
>> >
>> >could set
>> >
>> >> up a Websocket server and have a pure JavaScript one.
>> >> 
>> >> (Personally, I use TinyFugue. I won't be redeeming a beta code
>> >
>> >because I'm
>> >
>> >> very busy this week, so I'll leave them for someone else.)
>> >
>> >What about putty? I can try to have a look at it, if I have time. I
>use
>> >it mostly for SSH from windows boxen, but why not try it with
>telnet.
>
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