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Crowley pioneer
Joined: Apr 14, 2003 Posts: 421 From: Birmingham
| Posted: 15-04-2003 11:42  
What clients are people using at the moment? I've downloaded CLIO's mud client, which seems to be doing the trick, but it's teeny tiny, and you have to press up, then return to repeat your command. Admittedly, haven't fiddled with the preferences yet.
Any suggestions? Anyone that says Zmud will be shot :)
_________________ *Fiz the necromancess says "I've been advised by everyone in the game to ignore you, Crowley".
 
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Tabitha pilgrim
Joined: Aug 19, 2001 Posts: 28 From: 55.9493N, 3.1617W.
| Posted: 15-04-2003 13:27  
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On 15-04-2003 11:42, Halen wrote:
I've downloaded CLIO's mud client, which seems to be doing the trick, but it's teeny tiny, and you have to press up, then return to repeat your command. Admittedly, haven't fiddled with the preferences yet. |
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If you press ALT-ENTER it should switch to full screen mode.
Use CTRL-L to repeat the last command, or add the /E option to the command line, and just press ENTER to repeat the last command.
 
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Crowley pioneer
Joined: Apr 14, 2003 Posts: 421 From: Birmingham
| Posted: 15-04-2003 14:15  
Cheers! Except I use two monitors, and alt+enter maximises across both screens. DOH!
Command line stuff is great though, thanks :)
_________________ *Fiz the necromancess says "I've been advised by everyone in the game to ignore you, Crowley".
 
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Tabitha pilgrim
Joined: Aug 19, 2001 Posts: 28 From: 55.9493N, 3.1617W.
| Posted: 15-04-2003 14:35  
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On 15-04-2003 14:15, Halen wrote:
Cheers! Except I use two monitors, and alt+enter maximises across both screens. DOH!
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Strange. On dual monitor systems the DOS box usually goes fullscreen on the primary monitor, and leaves the other one in Windows. Might be worth poking about your system settings to see if you can persude it to behave that way.
Clio should honour your dos window settings - eg it will run quite happily in a 50 line window - so you should be able to increase the window size, font, etc to make things more readable.
 
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Crowley pioneer
Joined: Apr 14, 2003 Posts: 421 From: Birmingham
| Posted: 15-04-2003 15:13  
great, thanks Tabitha - I'll give it a try :) Great client! =)))
_________________ *Fiz the necromancess says "I've been advised by everyone in the game to ignore you, Crowley".
 
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Crowley pioneer
Joined: Apr 14, 2003 Posts: 421 From: Birmingham
| Posted: 16-04-2003 09:23  
Sorry, I'm still not sure how to add the /E flag? I tried putting it at the end, so the link reads:
"C:\Program Files\Clio MUD2 client\MUDII.co.uk.bat" /E
But that doesn't seem to work. I'm very much a technological peon :)
_________________ *Fiz the necromancess says "I've been advised by everyone in the game to ignore you, Crowley".
 
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Tabitha pilgrim
Joined: Aug 19, 2001 Posts: 28 From: 55.9493N, 3.1617W.
| Posted: 16-04-2003 13:36  
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On 16-04-2003 09:23, Halen wrote:
Sorry, I'm still not sure how to add the /E flag? I tried putting it at the end, so the link reads:
"C:Program FilesClio MUD2 clientMUDII.co.uk.bat" /E
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Leave the link as it was. Look in the C:\Program Files\Clio MUD2 Client\ folder, and you'll see a file called 'MUDII.co.uk.bat'. Righk-click on this file and select 'Edit'. Change the last line to be:
clio /H /W /E MUDII.co.uk
 
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Crowley pioneer
Joined: Apr 14, 2003 Posts: 421 From: Birmingham
| Posted: 16-04-2003 15:30  
This is probably all on your website isn't it? Only muggins here, typical bloke, downloads and just wades in, then whines later :) That flag stuff is BRILLIANT! No wonder no-one uses any other client ;)
ok, 'nuff sucking up. Thanks again :)
_________________ *Fiz the necromancess says "I've been advised by everyone in the game to ignore you, Crowley".
 
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Heiach Wizard
Joined: Oct 31, 2001 Posts: 549 From: I can't remember!
| Posted: 18-04-2003 12:45  
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Any suggestions? Anyone that says Zmud will be shot
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And whats wrong with ZMUD?.. I've used it for years.. and I have yet to find a better one.. for free.. and I also think the ones you have to pay for are worse... or so I've heard...
Quite a few of us use ZMUD.. right.. RIGHT?!
 
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Vulnax explorer
Joined: Oct 19, 2001 Posts: 648 From: North West
| Posted: 18-04-2003 16:06  
Not here, Clio for me too!
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Merlin pilgrim
Joined: Oct 01, 2002 Posts: 24 From: A place in the clouds with mi drink
| Posted: 22-04-2003 13:40  
I use to be a ZMud freak. Used it for loads of stuff I.e. Mapping etc, but I now use Clio. Lots better then ZMud because it logs in colour and creates a lovely HTML format log file!!!!!
Merlin
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Vulnax explorer
Joined: Oct 19, 2001 Posts: 648 From: North West
| Posted: 22-04-2003 20:44  
Mud for mortals was my previous fave client....
 
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Havoc pioneer
Joined: Feb 16, 2003 Posts: 360 From: portland, oregon, usa
| Posted: 11-06-2003 12:40  
Really Vulnax? What did it do that Clio doesn't do already? [or is that it, clio does everything? ]
Six months back I was working on a follow-up to it, but I ran out of steam - mainly, but not entirely, due to lack of feedback [not trying to point fingers here though].
Havoc
[ This Message was edited by: Malbery on 11-06-2003 12:43 ]
 
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Vulnax explorer
Joined: Oct 19, 2001 Posts: 648 From: North West
| Posted: 11-06-2003 20:13  
Ohh, well a few things. MFM wouldn't connect to MUD2 at MUDII.co.uk, IIRC, as the connection script / addresses were hard coded? So I needed a new client and Clio is pretty good!
MFM had some kool tricks like moveable output windows ( on screen Inventory, last command, weather, etc. ) although I can't recall if it logged.
Still, if you get the urge to write a Clio beater, let me know!
V
 
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Vulnax explorer
Joined: Oct 19, 2001 Posts: 648 From: North West
| Posted: 11-06-2003 20:25  
Ohh yeah, I don't know if its just me / my PC, but when I am on a mud2 session via Clio, my Norton Utilities system thingy tells me I am running approx 100% CPU cycles, and it does seem to me Clio runs in a DOS process / window.
Ok, it DOES multitask if I wanna shift-tab to Windows, but that part is a bit clunky.
IIRC MFM multitasked under windows easily?
Clio is still superb for Mud2 games though, not putting it down!
V
 
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Havoc pioneer
Joined: Feb 16, 2003 Posts: 360 From: portland, oregon, usa
| Posted: 12-06-2003 00:42  
I think most of the features I could offer in a newer client would be most interesting to wizzes.
I had a few funky ideas that mortals would love, but I was hesitant because I thought they might detract from the game.
But if I do get the urge, I'll start by posting to the forum..
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Havoc pioneer
Joined: Feb 16, 2003 Posts: 360 From: portland, oregon, usa
| Posted: 12-06-2003 12:26  
I for one would like to see tab completion on player names. If only to be able to SYN the nasty ones quickly.
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