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| Welcome || Clients || _ ___ _o |
| Announcements || || | | |...| |.| |
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| Web Client || Nightfall, as most other MUDs, runs on plain telnet. This means that you need to || '-' '---' '-' |
| Clients || run a MUD client on your computer to connect to Nightfall and play. If you don't || \|
| Quickstart || want to install a MUD client now, you might want to have a look at the || |o
| Wait, What? || webclient. Wikipediaꜛ also has a list of clients. || |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || || |
| Races || The users of Nightfall currently suggest the following clients: || |/
| Guilds || || |
| Map || Linux/Unices || |
| Lore || || o|
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || - If you just want to have a look around, plain telnet is mostly sufficient. It || |
| Who's online? || will support colours and everything will work, but you won't have a dedicated || |o
| Finger || input line, which can mess up your typing. To connect to Nightfall, use || |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || || |
| The Guide || # telnet nightfall.org 4242 || |o
| Player Help || || o|
| The Sky || - For more regular use on the command line, we suggest TinyFugueꜛ. On Debian, || |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || || o|
| Imprint || # apt-get install tf5 || |
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| || will get it installed. You can then start it with e.g. tf -f~/.tfrc. A minimum || |
| || configuration file can be found hereꜛ. Feel free to ask on the public channels || |
| || for more advanced configurations. || |
| || || o|
| || - GnomeMudꜛ is a graphical, yet very simple client that has all the key features || |o
| || (logging, aliases, external input line etc.). On Debian, you can install it || |
| || with || |
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| || # apt-get install gnome-mud || |
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| || and run it as gnome-mud. Then click Connect and Add and enter a name of your || |
| || choice, nightfall.org as the host and 4242 as the port. After you created an || |/
| || account, you can add its details in the lower section of this window to || |o
| || auto-login. || |
| || || |
| || - Mudletꜛ is a more advanced graphical client. Debian Wheezy only has version || |
| || 2.0, but a newer version 2.1 is available in Jessie onwards. It is also || |
| || available for MacOS X and has a Ubuntu PPA. || o|
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| || Windows || |
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| || Unfortunately, the standard Windows telnet application is rather unusable, so we || |
| || suggest you don't use it at all. Good clients in usage are: || |
| || || \|
| || - PuTTYꜛ is a decent all-around telnet and SSH client. If you just want to have || |
| || a look at Nightfall, it will be fully sufficient. Use nightfall.org as the || |
| || hostname and 4242 as the port to which to connect. || \|
| || || |
| || - MUSHclientꜛ is a decent client, which is very extensible and will serve you || |
| || well for any usecase. || |
| || || |
| || - zMUDꜛ is a very advanced client. Unfortunately, it only has a 30-day free || |
| || trial period and otherwise comes in at $34.95 (as of 06/2013). || |
| || || |
| || - Mudletꜛ, mentioned above, is also available for Windows. It has some advanced || |
| || features and will likely serve you well. || |
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| || Additional Information || |
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| || Nightfall currently supports ANSI colour codes, but only the ISO-8859-1 || |/
| || charset. Unless you care about seeing umlauts in chat sometimes, you won't have || o s|
| || to worry about the charset. To tell Nightfall that your client supports colour || o / /x|
| || (most clients do) in case it didn't auto-detect it, do || \/ __o/xs|
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| || > config terminal ansi || \ \s|
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| || after logging into Nightfall. The other choices here are "vt100" and "dumb", || nmsxxsx|
| || which you can use to disable colour output from Nightfall. || xsxxxmxs| .
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