Bah, any telnet client will do the job. It doesn't have the fancy audio
effects the clients sometimes have, but if your goal is to play
regardless of os, a simple telnet client is all you need.
The other clients folks always discuss are simply glorified telnet
clients, ones that play sounds, have aliases, triggers, and various
other features to make playing the mud easier, but when it comes right
down to it, telnet is all that's needed. I've logged into many muds
with nothing but a telnet client, and had no issues playing the game.
Of course, I'm a no frills kind of person, and to be honest, most of the
features of so-called mud clients just irritate me, though I do use
triggers and aliases regularly, though often times, there are ways to do
such things with the muds themselves, independent of the client, so even
there, plain telnet isn't a handicap.
On 4/10/2022 8:06 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
On Linux the tintin-alteraeon github package made by lilmike is the
accessible way to go.
On Sun, 10 Apr 2022, Heather Seaman wrote:
Thanks for the info. What you've said doesn't surprize me. I'm still a
newbie to the gaming sceen and thought I'd toss the idea out there,
knowing it most likely wouldn't stick. I ce dream for a
while, whough. LOL!!
On Apr 10, 2022 6:07 PM, john <[email protected]> wrote:
From time to time I'll see someone trying to play the game on
Android, IOS, or OSX. While it is apparently "possible", most often
people seem to spend as much time struggling with
their client as they do actually playing the game.
Also, it's worth noting here that while several recent changes
have been mentioning the dclient, that software has never been, nor will
it ever be, accessible. The accessible package
is Mush-z, and that receives ongoing development.
While I know this isn't exactly the answer you were looking for,
it's also worth noting that MushClient, the software that Mush-z is
built on, will run acceptably on pretty much any
hardware made in the last 20 years. You do not need a modern
computer to play Alter Aeon. Just remember not to use your ancient
laptop or desktop for other things on the internet.
On 4/10/2022 14:55, Heather Seaman wrote:
I really enjoy reading these updates and I would love to play the game.
However, I use an Android tablet with a physical keyboard, braille
display and speech output, in other words a screen
reader, and haven't found a MUD client that really seems to support
these very well, especially the prysical keyboard. Have you ever
considered making a version of the dclient available for
those using Android or IOS? Even if we couldn't get the ambient music
and sound effects, if we could write and read sext I THINK owe could
enjoy the game.
Heather
On Apr 10, 2022 1:07 AM, Alter Aeon <[email protected]> wrote:
Happy spring, everybody! Last month we held Alter Aeon?s annual
Spring Festival event. Our next event will be the Mayday event, which
will begin on Friday, April 29th and end on
Monday, May 2nd. This event will be like the previous two years?
events, with players experiencing a different style of quest as they
explore a crashed spaceship while piloting a
robot. It can be completed by players of any level, even brand
new ones. If you haven?t done it out yet, I would strongly suggest that
you try out this year?s Mayday event area!
Here are some recent updates to the game:
* There is a new forged metal: wind steel, an iron-mithril alloy
that gives dexterity.
* There is also a new wickercraft item: cornucopia, which can cast
the ?fruitage? spell.
* The opals in the mines beneath Ubar have been divided into potch
opal, hyalite, black opal and white opal and added to the mining and
lapidary tables where appropriate.
* Some shopkeepers may now be able to cut gemstones from raw
materials... for a price.
* You can add gemstones to crafted jewelry as long as you know
lapidary.
* Wetlands terrain (mire, marsh, swamp) now has a dclient ambient
track.
* ?Landslide? now knocks over unbalanced opponents instead of
stunned ones.
* Called electric eels now have mild damage reflection and chance to
stun opponents, and the damage reflection for porcupines has been made
more aggressive.
* You can no longer doubly mutilate the remains of creatures with
?flesh beast? and ?bone guardian?.
* You can now call animals while resting, as nature intended!
* Reagent lore information should now show up on ?shortid?.
* Adding an arrowhead adds +1 hitroll and adding fletching adds +1
damroll to ammunition, even if nothing else transfers.
* The ground cleaner now targets food, ores, spell components and
herbs outside of clan areas.
Work continues on Primordial Chaos, an upcoming high-level procedurally
generated area. Primordial Chaos is a shadowy, malleable realm riddled
with pockets of raw material that mimics
other planes. Distinct populations of creatures will be found in the
different pockets depending on the terrain. Inhabitants will range from
corrupted elementals to demons and more.
There will also be distinct features within Chaos that will serve as
landmarks, and places to collect unique resources.
Two other building projects will soon be coming to fruition. One is the
city of Port Crimsonia, a level 42-43 zone on the eastern shore of the
continent of Ramanek when finished. The
level 34 zones of Dreahul and Thuoduhr should also be available soon.
For more information regarding Alter Aeon latest developments, please
refer to our April 2022 Youtube update here: https://youtu.be/Ue99PMXpCDw
