Windows Client
Tatsuya Murase
>In article <mharvey.1...@cftnet.com>, mha...@cftnet.com (Matt Harvey) says:
>>
>>Is there a Windows client for Netrek or is there a way to play through telnet?
>If someone finds out, please tell me, too...
Two easy steps:
STEP ONE:
ftp to soda.berkeley.edu under /pub/netrek and ASCII get the file "NetrekFTP"
or read rec.answers, news.answers, as the FTP list will be found there as
well (amazing, these wonders of technology)
STEP TWO:
Sell your soul to a server god. Give him all your worldly possessions,
esp. your car and CDs.
VOLUNTARY STEP:
Email your sysadmin to keep the faq/ftplist on rec.games.netrek longer.
--tots
clueless server god
bradbert.ugcs.caltech.edu (shameless plug)
Matt Harvey
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Erick E. Robertson
If someone finds out, please tell me, too...
Erick E. Robertson
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
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Tyler Allison
>From: to...@shred.ugcs.caltech.edu (Tatsuya Murase)
>Subject: Re: Windows Client
>STEP ONE:
>ftp to soda.berkeley.edu under /pub/netrek and ASCII get the file "NetrekFTP"
>or read rec.answers, news.answers, as the FTP list will be found there as
>well (amazing, these wonders of technology)
>STEP TWO:
>Sell your soul to a server god. Give him all your worldly possessions,
>esp. your car and CDs.
Okay so whats your point? I think all of us that have posted questions
about CONNECTING VIA TELNET OR A PC COMPUTER!! (hello read that line again)
DONT HAVE ACCESS TO A SERVER. Okay now that Im done....
Could anyone explain to all of us asking, how/if this can be done?
-Tyler
Tatsuya Murase
> Okay so whats your point? I think all of us that have posted questions
>about CONNECTING VIA TELNET OR A PC COMPUTER!! (hello read that line again)
>DONT HAVE ACCESS TO A SERVER. Okay now that Im done....
> Could anyone explain to all of us asking, how/if this can be done?
The point being that by reading the FTP list you will come across
two (count them two!) clients for PCs running Windoze/Windows NT running
on some sort of telnet connection. There are _several_ clients
available for linux systems. If you don't know what the hell a client
is and why you need it to play netrek, then you should read the FAQ, because
I'm pretty sure Tom gives a description of netrek's client/server architecture.
Reading the FAQ/FTPlist, you can easily download a client for your computer
set it up, and run in under 45 minutes, if even that. If a client doesn't
exist at all for what you're running, or you're having some bugs or other
weird problems, contact the maintainer for that client (also listed in the
FTPlist) There are very _few_ architectures that do not have a client of
some sort compiled for them.
Please note in my post that step 1 invariably comes before the step
where you must grovel to a server god (heheheheh)
but once again here's a site where you can ftp the faq/ftplist:
soda.berkeley.edu, look under /pub/netrek
Donald Tsang
>>[slightly amusing and somewhat useful advice deleted]
>
> Okay so whats your point? I think all of us that have posted questions
>about CONNECTING VIA TELNET OR A PC COMPUTER!! (hello read that line again)
>DONT HAVE ACCESS TO A SERVER. Okay now that Im done....
I honestly don't think he understands what he's asking for.
Okay, let's start with:
Netrek is a game played across the relatively-high-bandwidth lines
of the "true" Internet. If you don't have FTP access, you're almost
certainly SOL with respect to Netrek.
Continuing...
It used to be that the ONLY POSSIBLE way to play Netrek on a Mac
or PC was to run an X display on said Mac/PC, and run the binaries
off a workstation or other high-powered (*) computer. Later, when
PCs gained in power and connectivity, anyone running a PC with a
unix-ish operating system with some sort of xxx/IP connection to the
Internet was in luck. This still didn't help those people with
DOS/Windoze/etc, or Mac people without MacSLIP/MacPPP access.
However,
Some time ago, some smart people at UC Berkeley (**) wrote ndb,
the Netrek Display Bridge. This allowed clients to be written which
did the display and user interface stuff on the Mac / PC, and did
the server communication on whatever it was your were dialed up to.
With a good 14.4k connection, you'd be off and running.
Unfortunately,
I don't think there are any "modern" PC-compatible clients.
So,
You'll have to use Linux or FreeBSD, with SLIP or PPP, and run a
real X client and stuff, OR you can get some WinSock program (like
Trumpet WinSock), and run the new Win32 client. Either way, you'll
need for the connecting side to support whatever xxx/IP protocol
you install. Otherwise, you're still SOL.
But remember,
Netrek will eat your life away. Just ask Duck...
* obPCsAreLame
** obGoBears
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| -- The Princess Bride
Jiang Wu
>But remember,
>
> Netrek will eat your life away. Just ask Duck...
Actually, Netrek will lead you to Christ. Just ask Duck...
-- Jiang