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Beginner Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Denmark

Hey is it possible to have your zmud moved to your pocket pc.
Or is there a client out there that can make it possible ?
Or will the Zugg Software team consider make such software?

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:44 pm

Umm, no. There is no way zMUD would work on a pocketPC, sorry. I have no idea if there is any MUD client for a pocketPC, but the very idea of typing that much text command to really play a MUD scares me.

Anyway, I certainly don't have any plans for this. zMUD is all about high-end MUDding and you can't really do that on a pocketpc at all.

Beginner Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Denmark

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

Maybe I should write a voice-enabled MUD client for the pocket pc, I'm voice-enabling AS/400 and Unix sessions for warehouses, so it can't be that much more difficult to turn that into a MUD client ;)

I would find the screen real estate a bit lacking for MUDding though.

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:56 am

Ahh, I hadn't thought about the fold-out keyboard. It's just not something I've used with a PDA before, but you are right about it.

But again, basically zMUD is a very full-featured client with an advanced GUI interface. Screens like the Automapper, Settings Editor, and stuff like that wouldn't be appropriate on the small PDA screen. So what you are basically asking for is a "lite" client that has the zMUD scripting langauge and not much else. And I decided a long time ago not to go that direction because with all of the free MUD clients, there isn't much need for a "zmud lite" (most people who need it just use the free version of zMUD for that).

The actual huge problem, of course, is that the Delphi development tool that zMUD is written with doesn't generate code for pocketpc, so there is essentially no way to port it.

Beginner Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Denmark

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Newbie Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Sweden

is it posoble to run zmud at home or whatever and run like pc anywhere or something from the PDA? if you chars acctions are run by a script on the computer at home the lag you get from this should matter little if all you do from the PDA is chat.....

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

*rofl misterbalrog*

I can imagine so many people looking at me in so many weird ways Very Happy

Personally, I'd still rather use my lappy, 1600x1050 widescreen monitor runs Zmud (and Everquest2) very well :)

Wanderer Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 63 Location: USA

Yeah since zMUD doesnt need much of a refresh rate, of course you could run it on any screen, *gasps* ??hologram?? maybe even!