AL Client is a completely free MUD Client that has been designed to work with Ashavar's Legacy, and any other on-line text base game that can be accessed with telnet.
Ashavar's Legacy is a free MUD that can be accessed with telnet or a client program.
A MUD is a Multi-User Dungeon. It is a place where people across the world can meet and play the same text based game.
A client is a program that can access a MUD server. It may include features that make playing the game easier, such as aliases, actions or delays.
AL Client is 100% free. There is no registration fee, no upgrades, no
advertizements, and no banners. The client was written to make playing
Ashavar's Legacy easier for our players, and if other players like it
too, then all the better.
The client can be downloaded from the downloads page. Click on the file to download it, and save it to a temporary directory, for example c:\temp.
Once the file is saved you your local hard drive, simply run it to start installation. You can run a program with start/run and then either type in the path and name, or choose browse. You can also run the installation program from a dos prompt. Once the install program is running, you just need to select the default directory or choose a new one.
You can either use start/run and type the name or browse for it, or you can
create a shortcut on your desktop to AL Client.
2.4 How do I create a shortcut?
From the options menu, choose windows, then select the properties button for the window you want to change (most likely the main window.) From the windows properties dialog, choose the font dialog.
3.2 How do I change the colors?
From the options menu, choose windows, then select the properties button for the window you want to change (most likely the main window.) From the windows properties dialog, choose the foreground and background color dialogs.
From the options menu, choose windows, then select the properties button for the window you want to change (most likely the main window.) From the windows properties dialog, change the visible size for height and line width for more columns.
3.4 How do I make aliases, actions, delays, etc.?
You can either bring up a dialog box for the feature, or you can use
text commands with the # symbol. Type #help to get a list of available
commands.
You can connect to the most recently accessed MUD (defaults to ashavar.com port 2150) by simply hitting enter on a line by itself, while not connected to a server. You can also connect from the connect menu, or you can use the #connect command.
4.2 Why doesn't alt-(key) bring up my menu?
If the main window or the command window has focus, then they are stealing your alt-(key) attempts. You can set focus on the AL Client background menu, and your typing will still go to the right place as well as the alt key working correctly.
4.3 How do I refresh the screen?
If the screen becomes invalid for any reason (like it scrolls while you are holding down alt-tab) then you can use the ESC key to refresh.
4.4 How do I start the mapper?
You can start the mapper with the mapper menu, control-m, or the #map command.
4.5 How do I use the automapper?
You can start the automapper with the mapper menu, control-a, or the #automap
command. You can change the default distance between new rooms using the
#automap command as well. After the automapper is started, type look to
add the current room, then move around to add additional rooms.
4.6 How do I use semicolons with stacking on?
If you have stacking turned on in the client (and turned OFF in the MUD
itself) then you can put a backslash '\' before your stacking character
to tell the client to ignore it. Example: \;)
4.7 How do I get ! to repeat a stack of commands?
You can make an alias for the ! symbol to use the #resend command. Example:
#alias ! #resend.