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<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 15 Feb 98 14:22:01 -0800</LI>
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On 12/02/98 at 08:07 AM, "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com> said:
>On 11 Feb 98 at 22:08, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
>> At 09:22 PM 2/11/98 +0000, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>"Hi, my name is Jon. I'm an NT user." (All stand up - Hi Jon) "I'm not
>sure when I first became aware of this....family members were
>concerned... Gates...peer pressure...Where do I want to go today?..."
Thankyou for joining NT Users Anonymous. We have a 95% recovery rate with
only a 12% recidivism rate after one year. I'm sure you'll do well and
prove that you too can be a valuable human and a useful member of society
again. We look forward to helping you with your recovery.
<kof>
<<Sorry, this is a rather odd day so far>>
>Aside: Any opinions on the best input device for graphical work? I've
>heard positive things about sketchpads, but do not know really know the
>criteria to use in selecting them.
I have background in CAD (spent 5 years writing 3rd party apps for the
Intergraph/Microstation market). It left me with a great liking and
admiration for graphics tablets.
Don't get anything smaller than 18"x18". Summagraphics are good. Kurta
IS/One's can be had cheap on the second hand market ($100- $150) and
aren't bad if discontinued. If you can get something like a 24"x30"
you'll be doing great.
Ensure that your software can also handle tablet menus as well. Most
low-end products can't. Tablet menus are printed sheets your place on the
tablet under plastic. They are essentially diagrams of hot spots. You
can then click on the items on the menu (which are usually icons
(remember, most pucks have at least 4 buttons, some 16 or more)) to invoke
the relevant function. The result is that you never need touch the
keyboard, and never need to have a graphics control, tool pad, button bar
or similar on screen.
>OTOH, I am still quite fond of ActiveX, conceptually.
Drugs man, I tell you, they'll get you back in the end.
>No, there doesn't have to any less text. Room descriptions and character
>descriptions can be just as rich as any "good" text mud. Then again,
>really, what's the literary quality on your "average" text muds.
>"There is a sandy dessert lieing here"
Medieval kitchen hygene being on the gritty side I presume.
>"The midevil castle appers before you"
<Pop!>
If you wait about a bit a lateevil castle should be along shortly.
>> I must say, Quake in my opinion *is* a MUD
>I heartily concur.
One of these days I guess I must get a machine capable of running Quake.
It seems they don't have a PA-RISC or Alpha version yet...
<<I'm really glad I could add so much signal here -- all for the excuse of
the short bit of graphics tablets...>>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00424" HREF="msg00424.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 03:35 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00425" HREF="msg00425.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 05:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00427" HREF="msg00427.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 06:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00434" HREF="msg00434.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 15:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00474" HREF="msg00474.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00238" HREF="msg00238.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Wed 14 Jan 1998, 14:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00252" HREF="msg00252.html">Clients</A></strong>,
Andrew Wilson <a href="mailto:andrew#aaaaaaaa,demon.co.uk">andrew#aaaaaaaa,demon.co.uk</a>, Sun 18 Jan 1998, 20:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00257" HREF="msg00257.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Mon 19 Jan 1998, 23:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00280" HREF="msg00280.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Clients</A></strong>,
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