What hardware and what screen-reader-accessible telnet software? Apparently you've hbeen very lucky. Has anyone got any mud working on a raspberry pi with a screen reader yet?
On Sun, 10 Apr 2022, Travis Siegel wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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