Subj : Re: Hawk Hubbard
To   : jinkusu
From : jack phlash
Date : Wed Oct 30 2024 09:54:34

on 28 Oct 2024, jinkusu said...
 
 ji> haha, that telnettable one was actually like version 2 or 3 of my Tir.
 ji> version 1 was mid90s renegade where i used every single available
 ji> command to replace the interface to fake a "unix machine" -- trying to
 ji> stick with the whole shadowrun/matrix thing.  anyway, i had to dumb it
 ji> down once i discovered there was a limit.
 ji> 
 ji> i'm paraphrasing a bit here because i can't remember the actual
 ji> commands, but for example, there was no "press m for messages" stuff, i
 ji> made you "cd messages" and run "./read" or if you wanted to download you
 ji> had to "cd files" and "ls"

Ha! There were lots of similar style mods back then (mostly mimicking MS-DOS) but yeah, that kind of thing was surely more for the modder than the user. :P

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