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Old 06-14-2008, 10:24 PM   #23
shadowfyr
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Re: custom clients. Good or bad?

Yeah. 1) They are usually intended to be "basic" shells for talking to networks, not games, 2) they can't do jack beyond that, and 3) at least with Windows versions, they don't automatically default to ANSI, but require archane methods of starting them to activate it, never mind any other extended features that clients may have, which means the game will look bad, or not work at all with them.

If default Telnet apps where upgraded, instead of languishing in the same state that MS also kept MS Sort-of-Paint and Barely-a-Notepad, this might not be true. Instead, they decided not to *ever* even upgrade it to something as basic as *supporting* ANSI automatically, instead of making you manually turn on the older V-100 standard, but actually *disabled it* by default in the latest OS... This is just completely nuts.
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