RE: trade wars...

I used to play this game back in the day when you had 4 hours of internet
connection and then you had to wait till the next day.  Back then there was
a program named simply "Trade wars helper" that was a text based thing like
your  Swoth.  I will say it wouldn't be hard to write one again if it don't
already exist since I see perl libraries for interacting with trade wars.
If you search or trade wars helper you will find more programs that might do
the trick but since I don't play anymore I can't tell you which one would be
best for Jaws.  If you had an old MSDos box and Asap you could run "trade
wars helper" and be in heaven.


Ken

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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tribble
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:05 AM
To: bprogramming
Subject: trade wars...

Hi all --
My nephew has been trying to get me to join in a game of trade wars that 
they have running on his server. He thought it would be accessible since I 
can get the data in ascii form, but there is a gui interface to trade wars 
called SWATH that could cut down on the verbage -- i.e., using the 
interactive, line interface I have to sit through all the verbage of stats 
every time I make a move.
Question: I hear a lot on the various lists about MUD's that are 
accessible -- has anyone on the list ever played trade wars, and have you 
used SWATH?
I have connected to my nephew's server and tried using the line/ascii 
interface but that is quite slow. I have also downloaded SWATH.exe, and am 
going to install it, but I wanted to run the question by the list to see if 
anyone else can comment.
TIA and happy hacking.
--le

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