Alright I was a bit too young to play anything like this at it’s peak, but I am interested.
Do I understand it correctly that the way to play this would on a windows machine in cmd?
Quickly tried alacritty and kitty terminals (linux) and I don’t think some of the stuff looks correct
EDIT:
Get syncterm, then just do syncterm telnet://tw.catsweat.com
This how the game entering should look like (it didnt look like this at all for me in any of the above term emus)
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One of my all time favs. So many good memories
i banged it at max sector count (30k) and max turns, and i think i increased the initial credits to 10k
If there’s interest from othersin actively playing, might be nice to find an IRC channel to lurk in for general game discussion and hangout.
Holy crap. Haven’t thought about that game in forever! Nice!
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Alright I was a bit too young to play anything like this at it’s peak, but I am interested. Do I understand it correctly that the way to play this would on a windows machine in cmd? Quickly tried alacritty and kitty terminals (linux) and I don’t think some of the stuff looks correct
EDIT:
Get
syncterm, then just dosyncterm telnet://tw.catsweat.comThis how the game entering should look like (it didnt look like this at all for me in any of the above term emus)
its a telnet server, essentially. so any telnet client should work ok…
ubuntu has it built in ctrl+alt+t ‘telnet tw.catsweat.com’
for windows i think swath used to be the hot client… not sure about other windows telnet clients
There is a putty Telnet client and also a role in Windows system you can add for a Telnet client baked into the cli
Love it! Never played TradeWars before, did a couple of successful trades today, great fun! Thanks for hosting!
I remember playing this on dial-up BBSs back in the day…
If I recall how it works correctly, you fly around for 15 minutes, then get utterly destroyed by someone who’s been playing longer than you.
I may partake later tonight. Thanks!
I twlnetted in yesterday, but I realize ansi support really isn’t thing on Mac OS.
Anyone have a good terminal recommendation for macos?
Try if you can get syncterm on macos