Can anyone help me. I was wanting to run Tradewars on my WWW site. Not via telnet. Could anyone give me any suggestions.

Chris

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Can anyone help me. I was wanting to run Tradewars on my WWW site. Not via telnet. Could anyone give me any suggestions.


Well you have two possibilities: a telnet link on your web site which will call up the user's default telnet client, or some form of telnet client embedded into the web page such as The Java(tm) Telnet Applet http://www.first.gmd.de/persons/leo/java/Telnet/

Unless you want to build some kind of interactive web applet that stands between the game and the user to handle all requests and output (just writing the parser would be .. daunting), these are the only options currently available. I would suggest simply having a telnet link on your web page. Most tradewarriors prefer to connect with their favorite helper app anyway.

On a side note, if you *do* write such an application, let's talk. A utility like that could be adapted to a number of things I can think of readily off the top of my head and I would gladly give someone the use of either of my web servers to beta test on.

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Unless you want to build some kind of interactive web applet that stands between the game and the user to handle all requests and output (just writing the parser would be .. daunting), these are the only options currently available. I would suggest simply having a telnet link on your web page. Most tradewarriors prefer to connect with their favorite helper app anyway.


There was some talk a couple months ago about the possibility of turning J-TWATS, the java-based TW helper, into a web-usable applet. That would be a heck of an idea but I never heard anything more about it.

So my two cents is to do what Thistledown suggests... just put a telnet link on the site and let the players connect with whatever helper or telnet client they want to use.

Lisa M. Cutler
aka Rave
EIS Product Support

What would be the point of having a telnet link on a web page, the end result is no different than a direct telnet between server and player. Anyways, players would just copy the url off the web page and enter it to their twx, etc.