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Well it's been a while sinse I checked in, but it is looking fun, although i still need to get up and running with trade wars and some of the other games. I will say though Buz more was amusing! I have a friend who is a weedster who woul
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Hi there,I've been away from the forums for a while and I just saw this thing. Thanks for trying it out! I know it's stupid, but hey, I didn't think it would work either so I didn't work on it as much as I could have. I'll try to get idea
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@guilevi I take it all back.Now live on the NER BBS for everyone's enjoyment, Guess the NUmber from @guilevi. The program I used was gtn.exe. I'm not sure how it's compiled differently, but I ran it rather tna then console version as a
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@gilevi I'm kind of bummed. I installed your game and nothing seems to be output to the screen. I think this has to do with how things write to the screen. I'm going to continue to look into this because it may effect games like Eamon
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@guileviI haven't forgotten to attempt installing the guess the number application you wrote. Just have been busy and not feeling well. Should be done today.Console games work the best for these kinds of things if they are not designed
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@mord-sith and everyone having problems connecting.Namecheap, who I use for my domain is having issues with DDoS attacks ( distributed denial of service attacks). This isn't effecting the bbs, but does effect name server resolution. The
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Seems like the BBS is down, at least, I can't connect.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=166001#p166001
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Sunlight here...Ah, game 14, is called:"Land Of Devastation." Keep saying about it not being registered or something... Ah, glad that LORD is indeed multiplayer!URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165942#p165942
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Hi,Just to see if stuff works, and to see if I can help improve this BBS, I made the stupidest guess the number game ver made, using just console stuff, no GUI elements at all. Raw PureBasic console stuff. Actually, I didn't use any libra
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Hi,Just to see if stuff works, and to see if I can help improve this BBS, I made the stupidest guess the number game ver made, using just console stuff, no GUI elements at all. Raw PureBasic console stuff. Actually, I didn't use any libra
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@sunlight What's game 14? I've reorganized the menu system so now everything is either in genres, or you can view the full games list. I don't remember what game 14 is.Lord is multiplayer now, but lordnet or interlard is interbbs. I th
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Ah, I can't wait for the red dragon to be multi-player! I wonder how traveling's gonna work?It amazed me how many LORD and LOGD variations are out there!I also looked at game 14. among the options listed. Its, um, different!URL: http://fo
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@guilevy and @Zkline Yes, doors can ge written in any language. The opendoors libraries help with comm routines and basically managing communication between bbs and the rest of the world as well as bringing in user data from the bbs to t
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I found an interesting website last night, it's all about LORD and interesting things to do, the Jennie cheat codes, etc. Lots of strategy, etc. They apparently have three different games going on their site.http://lord.nuklear.org/tutori
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I think this article should help with explaining things:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS_doorURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165850#p165850
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In theory, I'd say yes. I think there are some special considerations though, which the libraries like OpenDoor are meant to address. Yes, BBS programs are called doors, for reasons which I'm not actually sure of.URL: http://forum.audioga
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I assume by "door" you mean these BBS games. I had no idea they were called that. What I mean though is, could a door be programmed in just any language? I can make console apps just fine I guess, using PureBasic, but those wouldn't be In
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Lots of doors, Usurper for instance, were written in Pascal, which isn't a specialized BBS language, but isn't super familiar nowadays either. In theory, you could write modern doors for Windows in a similar way. I don't know much more ab
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@guilevy Well, the reason why it's taking a while if you lose connection is that the bbs takes a minute for some games to detect that your connection or carrier as it was in the modem world dies. Nothing to do with port redirection unfor
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I just tried out the BRE InterBBS game, and it looks reeeally awesome. What I don't get about what you said though is, what will actually happen with the stuff we do now? Will it just vanish?@ner, something I found out is that if you loos
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@gryfYess, Jason is correct. There are many guides out there for trade wars asn many still play. I fyou can't find them on google, let me know and I'll get you the info.As far as bre, the interbbs thing is yes, basically everyone on the
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
A helper is a program you download and use on your own computer. The helper connects to the BBS and you work through the helper. With some helpers, it is an actual program you use. In the case of TWX, however, it is a background process,
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Hi,With Ners help I have been able to log in into my account again and tryed a few other games. Trade wars sounds awesome,however some kind of a tutorial/guide would've been nice for that one,as when you start you are basicly on a planet
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@staidaddict I sent you an email with your info.To all: this might be helpful to you. If you go to the user list, found on the main menu either in the blind shell or the standard shell, you will find your user number. Mine is user 1. I
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@Ner I am sorry to bother you, and this is a little embarrassing.. lol I signed up for nerbbs.com like two days ago, and I already forgot my user name and password. What can I do?Please Email me at:staindadd...@juno.com if you have any id
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@Dark, one of the stats shown on your current square is the potential for different resources, which I think is what you wanted. It's on the right side of the screen and says, "Prod: xx F xx E xx o." Higher numbers are better for producin
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Well Ner, your likely right about the map, however one part of what I wanted to work out wwas the stats of each shown squares since I think even suares of the same turrain type give slightly different bennifits, plus the rules annoyingl
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I have yet to sign up but thought I'd post to let people know that it is possible to log in with your web browser.Just pick one of the web telnet clients, I experimented with the flash telnet client and it seems to work with NVDA.I'll hav
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@dark I haven't played iron ox much, but one thing that I noticed when @Zach told me I should install it was that it was cool how it kind of described the map in worts. That's kind of a neat touch because from what I can tell, buildings
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@grryffSend me an email nromey at gmail dot com with your alias that you log on with and the password you want or wished you would have. I'll reset it at that point as it must be done manually and you can change it from there if you wish
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Well Iron ox I get some of. The commands are actually simpler than I thought, they just work by capital letters while the a-k across the top are part of the map. The map I unfortunately haven't got the knack of and I irritatingly ran out
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Hi ner,I do have NVDA on this machine,it has become my gameing screenreader,sort of. since I only use it for playing either japanese games,and now nerbbs.I gave it a go today,however for whatever reason I am not able to log on to nerbbs a
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This Window-eyes telnet series may be of use to some:https://archive.org/details/TB_telnetURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165524#p165524
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sounds cool. I'm checking games out. I still haven't had any luck with lannd of devastation, but I think I've seen how iron Ox works. The main problem is how it displays it's commands. It lists the letters a-k, and then gives you corresp
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
Just a note, interbbs gaming is coming closer. The NER BBS is nw connected to the Battlenet Network which has only two games, Barren Realms Elite and Falcon's Eye. Barren Realms Elite is a strategy game allowing resource building and di
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@grryffindorHello, and to others, I'm sorry I've been awol. I've been reading but unable to respond thanks to life . Also sorry for bbs being up and down a bit, still working out bugs and figuring out which version of the bbs software wo
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
Hi,I have been looking forward to trying this out,but was waiting on a jaws guide or what you will.So now,my question is where could I get a terminal or a name of one which works well with jaws? and any scripts to go along with it?special
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
I'm guessing you were killed by orcs. This is a special case for some reason, and you aren't allowed to resurrect yourself from it. If you had a team, you could have a team member pay to resurrect you, or of course just wait until tomorro
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@mordsith, was it one of the quests from the quest masters or was it one of those quests you find in the dungeon.I've never managed to get anything from those quest masters, or at least not as yet. Regarding death, what is exactly happeni
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Hi all,Here's a small step by step guide for those who can't use telnet on windows 7:1. Open your ocntrol panel by pressing the windows key, tab, selecting the control panel option and clicking on it.2. I'm not sure how the item is exactl
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
I died doing a quest in Userper and for some reason, I can't revive. I thought I had at least 3 revives a day.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165450#p165450
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If using windows 7 or later, or that, "other" one, type the first few laters of the word, "features," then arrow down to ya hear, "turn Windows Features On Or Off."Once ya press enter, wait for a moment til a tree pops up. Press, "T," til
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
If using windows 7 or later, or that, "other" one, type the first few laters of the word, "features," then arrow down to ya hear, "turn Windows Features On Or Off."Once ya press enter, wait for a moment til a tree pops up. Press, "T," til
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
Hi. Dark, when i type telnet, it just gives me an error. It doesn't find, telnet. Can someone tell me what's wrong?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165393#p165393
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Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
Well, I just logged in here, so the BBS is definitely running. Maybe you could try again? Is it possible something on your end is blocking port 23? That seems kind of strange, but it's all that I can think of.URL: http://forum.audiogames.
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Hi,I just started trying to log into this nerbbs.com thing, and I keep getting a connection timed out error.I downloaded Tera Term, and I fill in nerbbs.com, telnet port 23.. That's really the only instructions that were given. There's so
Re: The NER BBS, accessible gaming for all, now available
[[wow]], I knew bbs used to have a limited user count due to the use of phone lines, but I didn't think it was as low as that, it makes me wonder how games like trade wars or usurper ever got off the ground.URL: http://forum.audiogames.n
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I have some explanations about the limited time/logins thing. As you suspected, that is a holdover from the old time BBS days. And in those days, if you were very lucky, you had a BBS you could call that had multiple phone lines. But most
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@Szelli, well 32 bit should run the thing fine without trouble. As I said on xp I just hit r for run in the start menue, type telnet that is t e l n e t, then a terminal window appears, ie a screen window like the old dos console wher
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@Szelli, well 32 bit should run the thing fine without trouble. As I said on xp I just hit r for run in the start menue, type telnet that is t e l n e t, then a terminal window appears, ie a screen window like the old dos console wher
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Sorry, i did not mean 21 i ment 32 bit. thanks thoughURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165309#p165309
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I'll look forward to see what's next.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165307#p165307
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Hey guys,I know that there are other questions and don't have too much time to answer them at the moment, I promise I'll get to them.I've increased the amount of time available in level 50, the normal user amount from 400 to 800. I also i
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@Mord-Sith, you should be able to play every day starting at midnight or so Eastern US time, though it might not be quite so regular. The first time someone logs on in a new day, daily maintenance runs, the NPCs do a lot of their stuff, a
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@dark it really would. Saves you from having to download stuff and it weighs a lot less and uses up less resources, since all it has to do is to receive and send data. I still want to finish world of legends, I got sort of stuck at one po
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@guilevi when I exchanged credits for minutes in the bank I seemed to just get a time boost anyway, I was down to about 200 minutes but when I exchanged credits it went up to 500 again. I'm guessing that 500 is the max amount of time that
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Hi,@ner thanks for all of that. I noticed I do get 500 minutes per day . I'm not sure on how to withdraw from the bank, all I can do is exchange credits for minutes. I had like 10m when I started to I exchanged all of them and I have 600
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Ah, that helps:D also makes it alot less confusing.thank you.So, when does the game reset so I can play it again?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165235#p165235
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Hi,The "people," telling you random messages like that aren't players at all, but NPCs. The game is designed to give them almost as much freedom to do things as players have, and it's kind of fun even when you're the only real human aroun
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I've been playing almost all day. I like it. The limitted amount of moves for red dragon and userper kind of sucks, but, hey. Does anybody know where I can purchase life revives in userper?also: why do so many people log on and say that t
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Actually Trenton, I feel a bit of a fool, since on the same page where the guide is downloaded is a link to read the hole thing online as a nice html document even with decent header navigation, hence why I edited that bit out of my post
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Interesting!The Trade Wars guide, is managed by the .exe file inside the archive.You can open the readme.1st file with notepad, or just change it to .txt.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=165211#p165211
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@zseli, I don't know about windows 7, but last I checked there wasn't a 21 bit version of windows 7, just 32 and 64, as Ner said it'll run on 32 bit windows, I don't know about 64. As to what you need, well you need the internet in the
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@zseli, I don't know about windows 7, but last I checked there wasn't a 21 bit version of windows 7, just 32 and 64, as Ner said it'll run on 32 bit windows, I don't know about 64. As to what you need, well you need the internet in the
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@zseli, I don't know about windows 7, but last I checked there wasn't a 21 bit version of windows 7, just 32 and 64, as Ner said it'll run on 32 bit windows, I don't know about 64. As to what you need, well you need the internet in the
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Hi everyone. I am just asking you 1 question. I didn't know, if... Well, can you run this on windows 7 21 bit? And can you really juust type something into the command prompt? And don't you nead anything else, like internet, or an actual
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@Trenton and @dark Great to have you guys playing! the more we have playing, the better!About Eamon, I'll give Frank an email and see if we can work something out even if I can help him port to something like doorway which runs bs style d
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@Zcline thanks for that, that is what I wanted to know and well explains why I am having trouble with that particular screen since I thought that the multiples of colonists were ones you actually had on the planet.Ironically I've been pl
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Hi @guelivi,I'll still write you via the bbs mail but I"ll write for other's benefit.Every day you get 500 minutes of time. If you need more time, I can make that happen . The time bank is there in case you run out of time in a day. Yo
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Hello,This looks really great! I've just tried like 2 games for now, and I'm already freaking loving this. I got two questions, though:1. I already noted Ner about this, but just to be sure, does the time bank feature actually remain acti
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@Dark,I can help with the particular Trade Wars screen you're wondering about. The planet has a chart showing how many colonists you have working to produce each product. The order of columns is product name, total number of colonists wor
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Oo! Oo! Eamon possibly coming to your BBS soon, I'm sure Frank Black would be proud! I've always enjoyed his Eamon Deluxe series. Even with the saving limitations, I'd still absolutely enjoy it! I'm sure the folks at: http://eamonag.org ,
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Hi Ner. Well regarding lunatix that would be nice. With eamon deluxe it would be great to have a perminant host so that people could play the game. In terms of save games, well the way Eamon deluxe works is characters that users create
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Hey @darkFirst, about Eamon, I have thought about that. The only thing and you'll have to tell me what you think here, is that you wouldn't necessarily be able to save your progress in games ... well, you could save your progress but you
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Yep, that is the way with logd style games, banking is everything. well I've tried trade wars but I don't know if I've missed something since it seems I'm running into trouble with the planet menue, as I'm not sure which number is what a
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I've just got to level 10 in Userper. only 90 more to go! I do wish there were skills to use in fights, even so, its a lot of fun!Thank god I'm remembering to use the bank. I'm owning right now, but just wait for that one mob to come a
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Well ner, I'd be happy to contribute some cash to get more games, and 10 usd isn't really too bad at all, plus lunatix is rather fun. My thing with barren lands is I've tried games like that hosted on browsers fairly often from reign to
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@dark Sorry about the multiple messages. My issue was that I had several messages to respond to on different screens. Trust me, it won't happen again lest I get defenestrated.I can't speak on usurper as much though I'm about to abolish m
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Thanks Zack, I did gather some of that but not lots, though from the sound of it I'm just experiencing the game as is. Regarding trade wars I'm extremely interested in trying the game but wanted to get the hang of the system first, so t
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Thanks Zack, I did gather some of that but not lots, though from the sound of it I'm just experiencing the game as is. Regarding trade wars I'm extremely interested in trying the game but wanted to get the hang of the system first, so t
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Hi Dark and all,Usurper is certainly a bit challenging at first. Hopefully I can help with some general advice however.Gold from kills and leveling up is obviously very valuable. You want to deposit it in the bank as soon as possible, if
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@Ner, well with those games since I cut my etth as it were with broswer games playing a hole bunch of Legend of the green dragon varients, which is the modern web browser based open source successor to Legend of the red dragon, I'm avo
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@dark If people enjoy unatix, it can be registered. It's one which the authors are still around and taking registrations. Let me know if you like it and I'll consider registering it.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=1650
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@rstrunkI don't run majorbbs, so those large mud worlds most likely won't work. Best way to work it would be to run a second system which the bbs would connect to, but I'm not in a position to do that at the moment.URL: http://forum.aud
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@darkUsurper is a challenging game. What I would do is attack what you can as level 1, and bank what you get until you have enough money to upgrade your armor. Post questions on twitter (I hope to have a mailing list soon for nerbbs) wh
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@sara's social circleHi Sara, I haven't figured out how to remove the space from that wiki article, but what you need to do is paste in the string without the space and with the brackets. Also make sure to paste it in and then select tha
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@narf Hello. The time bank is a relic from bbs days of old. Back then, since bbss had limited phone lines, system operators allowed people to bank time that they had left over so they could use time they had banked in case they ran out
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Eamon deluxe is awsome, it's just a shame microsoft buggered things up in post xp windows. Anyway, I'm still not having much luck with usurper, as I managed to get myself killed and lose all my money againn! I have at least bought and
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Oh emon, how I'd love to play that. I know I could go through virtual emulation, but I'm not sure if my computer can handle that with only 4g ram. xdthat's another topic though.i'll log on in a bit and see if I can't get any furtherURL:
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I do the same thing with Supernova, using the dolphin curser, indeed for me that is something I've been doing in games ever since I first discovered if, and thus have done it in all sorts of things from Eamon deluxe to fallthru, so it'
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Ner,Would it be possible to get Majormud, Rose, or Telearena?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=164920#p164920
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I find that using NVDA at least, its easy enough to use the numpad or nvda cursor that an output window isn't really necessary.just something you gotta get used to I guess.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=164914#p164914
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hi, please. give. me. a. tellnet. client. with. an. output. I. can. cycle. to. and. tell. me. a. way. to. get. rid. of. the. symboles.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=164887#p164887
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well, I just learned something on userper. that is, being good does not always pay. In this case, got destroyed by half a dozen orcs. any ideas on how to change the weapon? I got the armor sorted out, but lost around 20k gold selling
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to train, go to the market place, you can train there.I've turned punctuation down to none, but still get loads of symbols at times. its manageable thoughURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=164844#p164844
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Well Dan, with supernova I just turned speaking of punctuation down to none when using dolphin curser, and that solved all the issues, so other than wangling with your screen reader's output I'm not sure what to suggest. With usurper tho
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I'm still having an issue with symbols some times making it difficult to tell what choices I have. mostly in red dragon, but occasionally in userper too.speeking of userper, at what point do you actually get to use skills?I'm still a bit
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It seems that the configuration reset to it's initial state when the bbs went down a while ago. People are having issues connecting to the same node run games again.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=164819#p164819
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Okay, ultimate universe seems rather complex, and not merely in it's text since it uses highlighting for options which is a pest and indeed I got stuck in the help menue and had to quit telnet with ctrl alt delete. Ionax I also had no l
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Well I've now tried anbrosia and barren lands elite as well. Anbrosia is a nice idea, though I was disappointed I couldn't start my own kingdom since I like the idea of building a combat and battling monsters at the same time, I also thou
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