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DF General Discussion / Re: Dfterm, Dwarf Fortress in a terminal (v0.1.3c - 13/4/2010)
« on: April 20, 2010, 12:36:26 am »
Right now, you use PuTTY as your client, but wouldn't it be a good idea to make your own client that would be optimized to run DF, or at least one that would properly display the symbols and has access to all the DF keyboard commands.
Also an interesting idea... if you set up the server to be able remember the menus and XYZ position of the screen and the cursor, you could set it up so multiple people can play the same fortress at the same time. all of them looking and working on different things. You would just need the server to connect people on alternating frames switching every frame from one persons state to the next and only sending the client what he would see on his specific frames. The host would just see a bunch of cycling shit all over the screen, but the clients would only see what they were working on. I guess you would need to work something out for pausing the game, but it would be an interesting experiment.
Also an interesting idea... if you set up the server to be able remember the menus and XYZ position of the screen and the cursor, you could set it up so multiple people can play the same fortress at the same time. all of them looking and working on different things. You would just need the server to connect people on alternating frames switching every frame from one persons state to the next and only sending the client what he would see on his specific frames. The host would just see a bunch of cycling shit all over the screen, but the clients would only see what they were working on. I guess you would need to work something out for pausing the game, but it would be an interesting experiment.