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Show HN: Messing with Telnet
- ausecpro 7y agoi broke it. sorry man, was just trying to inject shit in to peoples title-bars up by injecting terminal codes.
- qlk1123 7y agoVery cool! It can become an engine for playing board game online, which don't have critical timing requirements. Is it also possible for tui-based MMO?
- mftrhu 7y ago> tui-based MMO As in, a MUD [1]? There are still a few around. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
- fermuch 7y agoThere are several MUDs you can play from telnet or your browser on Grapevine. https://grapevine.haus/ https://grapevine.haus/
- oestrich 7y agoHey, I'm the developer behind Grapevine, thanks for the mention! If anyone is interested in how the Grapevine web client works, it's all open source and written in Elixir with the front end being React/Redux. The main application: https://github.com/oestrich/grapevine https://github.com/oestrich/grapevine And the telnet connection pool node: https://github.com/oestrich/grapevine-telnet https://github.com/oestrich/grapevine-telnet
- bovermyer 7y agoA MUD is a text adventure - as in, requires lines of prose commands. I believe a TUI MMO, in this sense, would be closer to a Roguelike or an action RPG, since it can process key presses directly without linebreaks.
- pferde 7y agoFew months back, there was a story here at HN about someone writing just such game to be played over a SSH connection. There were huge problems with the fact that you cannot reliably detect when the user stops pressing a key. IIRC, it was an action/arcade game, though, so it might be more tolerable for something not twitch-based.
- tsukurimashou 7y agoReminds me of SSHTron http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/ http://sshtron.zachlatta.com/
- npo_ 7y agoThanks for the blast from the past :)
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- jedimastert 7y agoI'm getting "500 Internal Error"
- garaetjjte 7y agoSee also: telnet telnetsnake.de 2325 telnet milek7.pl
- dpwm 7y agoThanks for posting those – I've never seen either of them before.
- garaetjjte 7y agoThere's list here: lynx gopher://telnetgames.de
- jlgaddis 7y agoIf it's still around (on an iPad and can't check at the moment) ... telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
- ta8347 7y agoAlso: telnet telehack.com
- deevious 7y agoIt doesn't seem to work with PuTTY, maybe its telnet defaults aren't what the code expects.
- bwasti 7y agoWhat aspects are broken?
- abbeyj 7y agoUpon connecting you get only a blank window. All input seems to be ignored. I can verify via packet capture that the keystrokes are being sent from the client to the server with one key per packet. The server doesn't seem to send much of anything after the initial negotiation. If you wait a while (several minutes) it eventually sends the arrows to move keys to change letter space to stamp instructions. But even then the rest of the window is blank and input is still ignored.
- mmwelt 7y ago"Too many connections!" Seems overloaded... show's what happens when you expose a simple server to Show HN!
- bwasti 7y agoYea, it's certainly struggling. I don't know of any quick fixes, so I kicked off the service on more ports for now.
- perttir 7y agoWorks but it is very slow.
- L_226 7y agounrelated but this reminded me of my favourite telnet server: towel.blinkenlights.nl
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoIf you have ipv6 then it plays in colour and has some extra scenes :)
- pard68 7y agoAny reason for the ip6 requirement? Can't imagine its technical.
- ignaloidas 7y agoJust to make reasons to move to ipv6
- lccarrasco 7y agoTo encourage adoption maybe
- p1mrx 7y agoThat statement was always a lie: Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one. The difference is in the visitors...
- armagon 7y agoSince when does macOS not have telnet built in?
- tambourine_man 7y agoHigh Sierra if I’m not mistaken. FTP was also dropped
- FabHK 7y agoHigh Sierra, apparently. Here some ideas to get it back, the most straighforward for home brewers being `brew install telnet` : http://osxdaily.com/2018/07/18/get-telnet-macos/ http://osxdaily.com/2018/07/18/get-telnet-macos/
- armagon 7y agoThank you.
- kkYrusobad 7y agoToo many connections!..... Disconnected :-(
- droidist2 7y agoHave you seen this (maps in over telnet)? Really awesome. https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
- bwasti 7y agowow this is great! it uses the scroll wheel and mouse location. I had no idea the latter was possible - very inspiring