Posted by Waigerits(VIP) on October 27, 1999 at 07:33:46:

In Reply to: Love the Idea of Sounds... Color ehhhhhh posted by Bacrie the Raging Boar on October 26, 1999 at 18:28:44:

> I think sounds would be cool or at least have a link to go for them to set triggers Cause I love to hear the screams of pain death and Mayhem *cackle*
> Color though I can do with out but as long as it can be toggled off thats cool to.

I can assure you that it's impossible to make
CF play sounds. Almos all MUDs use telnet protocol
for playing which is the protocol for transmitting
text and nothing else. Yes, text could be
colored if special control sequences are inserted
and your client understands them (in another case
you will see some garbage before and at the end of
colored words). Telnet protocol offers no means
for transmitting anything other than text.

If your client supports sounds (I think the advanced
windows clients support them) you can program it so it
played some special sound files in response to text
that CF sends to you, e.g.

#action {* is DEAD!!} {#play c:\sounds\death.wav}

(This example is uses tintin-like sytax but is not
supposed to be used as is).

Before I came to CF I played another mud where there
was one guy who was blind IRL. He programmed his client
so it read every line that mud sends to him using some
software that does it for blind people. He even heroed :)

If you are not lazy, you can do wonders if you have
powerful client and like to program.

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