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                          BSXclient by Morgan

                    Email:     groenewo@fwi.uva.nl
                    Real Life: Ferry van het Groenewoud

                       Version 1.2 (January 12th 1992)
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What is this?!
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  This package contains an Amiga BSXmud client. You are free to spread
  it as long as you include this document as well. Let me now explain
  'BSXmud' character by character.

                      B = Bram
                      S = Stolk
                      X = Xwindow system (ie. graphical)
                      m = multi
                      u = user
                      d = dungeons

  All clear? NO?! Well allright. You probably ever in your life played
  mud. It is the game which you play together with other players, in
  which you kill monsters and solve quests in order to get experience.
  Once you have enough experience, you become immortal and you will be
  enabled to start building your own locations, so expanding the game.

  In the old-fashioned days, these muds were text-only. That meant that
  you got descriptions like:

                 You see a beautiful christmas tree

  but you don't see nothing, just this line of text. With BSXmud, this
  bad practise has come to an end. Now you can decide yourself if an item
  looks good because it will be drawn on your screen. The idea is that
  the server (ie. the hostcomputer) sends data of polygons to the client
  (ie. YOU). The client interprets the data and draws the picture on
  your screen. That's just what this package does. It is the client.


Peculiarities of this client
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  At this date (January 12th, 1992) there exists only one BSXmud. It is
  Brasto and is currently located in Sweden (this might change at any
  moment, however):

                       robin.lysator.liu.se 7475

  Right now it has only few locations. These matters are all very new
  and so is this client. Since it was hacked into some other program
  (an old vt100 simulator) I had a hard time getting things right. I
  wouldn't be surprised if you found bugs, you can Email them to me,
  maybe I can fix them.

  Don't count on the menuitems. Although Ascii send and receive work,
  it could very well be that the others don't. I didn't try them yet.
  The VT100 simulator is, ofcourse, not working properly. Anything that
  it does right is already more than you should expect. It handles
  reverse characters and reverse scrolling. I didn't test the others.

  You can adjust the space used by graphics / text with the numeric
  keypad. Just check out 7, 4, 1, 8, 2 to see what they are doing. The
  aspectratio always remains 2:1 except for the case in which you have
  a very big graphics area and only few textlines left.

  If you turn off 'Graphics' from the 'Settings' menu it will ignore
  all commands (@), it will just print them to the screen. Handy for
  wizards that want to see a file with @'s in it.

  It supports interlace as well, just select 'interlace' from 'Settings'.

  You can walk around with the cursorkeys. It just sends some strings
  to the server. This is optional, if you select 'Microstep' from the
  'Settings' menu, you can toggle between microstepping and using the
  cursorkeys for vt100 commands to move the cursor.

  This client was hacked together in a relatively short period of time.
  It is buggy and some parts need to be rewritten. This version was
  released with the famous 'better something than nothing at all' in
  mind.


Bugs
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  If you select interlace from the menu while you haven't enough CHIPmem
  left, it will crash your Amiga.