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tradewars 2002 (cdn.catsweat.com)

submitted 1 week ago by originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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i tossed up a server because someone mentioned it in a thread. if anyone is interested in a little nostalgia..

telnet://tw.catsweat.com

only 5 user license, but if theres enough interest i can increase it

history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Wars

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[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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)

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

There is a putty Telnet client and also a role in Windows system you can add for a Telnet client baked into the cli