Shattered Kingdoms

I felt this deserved a thread of its own. Definetly a better choice than plain olde telnet.





I've used putty for quite some time for work (*I'm a sysadmin of sorts*), and I love the security, and sheer compact format of this terminal. When you launch it you will get a config set up, I recommend making a saved session for each character you have, so that you can have it log to a different file for each. I have the following settings.

Session - Host: mud.shatteredkingdoms.org
Port: 1996
Protocol: Telnet
Session name: One for each character.

Logging - Log all session output
Log file name: {Character name}.txt
Always append to the end of the log file.

Terminal - Boxes checked = Auto wrap mode initially on, and Use background colour to erase screen. I always disable blinking text here.
Line discipline options: Here is where you set local echo, I use auto.

Keyboard - Make sure the Backspace key is Control-H I keep everything else default.

Bell - I hate sounds on my terminals.

Features - I use default

Window - Rows and Columns, mine are 24/80
Lines of scrollback: 10000, but some may view this as excessive.
Boxes checked: Display scrollback, Reset scrollback on display activity (*sometimes I turn this off*). Uncheck push erased text into scrollback, trust me, it is annoying.

Selection - I like Compromise [middle extends, Right pastes] for quick cutting & pasting. the rest I the page I keep default.

Rest of Configuration I use defaults.

Go back to Session and save the definition before hitting Open!

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As was mentioned before, a very powerful terminal program that can fit on a floppy. Granted it doesn't have triggers or scripting enabled or any other fancy stuff, but it is definetly an awesome term.




~-~ Fepel ~-~

As free clients go, I'm a fan of ALClient.

http://www.ashavar.com/client

While not as full featured as ZMud, it has all the features I look for - and is easy to use besides.

Of special note is the ability to set up a secondary window, used when SK sends the word "tells". That has made conversations a lot easier for me, since they don't get lost in the spam.

The best part of Putty is forced local echo .

Although, I try to use that only as a last resort.

BTW D, I think the forced local echo will work for telnet if you code it to do so. Whats happening now, is when you enter the password field it turns local echo off and it cannot be turned back on in game.

Or at least thats what I think is going on.

sleeper

PuTTy is the only thing I ever use for MUD access. Unlike specialized MUD applications that let you run "cheater" scripts on your character, PuTTy gives you everything you need to interact with the MUD server, and no more. ZMud is for wimps. Real men use PuTTy.

*snickers* Chauvinist.

ROFL... this is derailed enough.

I sent this link to my friend (who told me about putty many months back) and he got a kick out of it because he preaches putty to me. (And btw... he doesn't even play a MUD).

sleeper