Next Meeting: 2025-May-13 18:30 - Empyre RPG

[Jas Eckard]

Our 2025-May-13 UCLUG meeting at 18:30 will be about the Empyre text role playing game:

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"Empyre is a meld of several different versions of the game Empire, played on BBS' during the 1980s. It is a single-user-at-a-time text based role playing game set in medieval times. The goal is to amass enough land and resources to attain the rank of King."

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If you can't attend in-person, please join us live online along with
ColaLUG, the Columbia SC Linux User's Group, on Jitsi:

https://meet.jit.si/sclugs

If attending in-person, enter OpenWorks from the 3rd floor of
Richardson St. Garage in downtown Greenville, SC. More info on this
entrance at https://joinopenworks.com/guest-access

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[Jas Eckard]

Not necessary (especially if you want anonymity), but if you'd like to sign up to let us know you're attending:

https://gettogether.community/events/81712/may-2025-meeting-empyre-rpg/

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[Jas Eckard]

Reminder that tomorrow night at OpenWorks is our monthly meeting!

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[Ben Francis]

Here is the video: https://youtube.com/live/vRKrUFpp7eM?feature=share

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[Jeff M]

Greetings!

I have some updates regarding my empyre talk during the May meeting:

- fixed the UnhandledException Exception when trying to play

- the default option for a menu choice is now within parens, like "(C)ontinue" in trade(). this has not yet been changed in all places.

- saving a player is now working correctly.

- the terminal used for the demo did not implement RGB color, so as a result no colors, save for those in the emojis, were used.

- to accommodate terminals without colors and perhaps bots, error messages are prefixed by "E: ", warnings by "W: ", etc. the status bar at the bottom is prefixed with "S:"

- it is not humanly possible to tap a switch hook at 110 baud.

- experiencing 300 baud can happen by using an actual tty and the `stty` command.

- player status is now displayed in neat and tidy columns. boolean displays a "yes" or "no", integers properly use commas, and datetimes are displayed in the user's timezone.

I installed bbsengine6-202505261606 and empyre-202505261604 on falcon.

Feedback is sincerely appreciated.

Regards,

Jay