[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestion/Request

[Chris Drelich <hyena@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alright, Ill take a look for it. My reccomendation would be a '-nocolor'
Command Line switch. This is my logic, and I hope none who have old computers
as their only computer take offense at this:

Let's assume that the two types of computers that would be using this system
are a) Old X-Terminals(Im personally using vt1200s) and b) Old computers that
only support B&W graphics(such as some sun3s I have).  Now X-Terminals don't
have hard drives of their own, and computers whose GUI is B&W probably don't
have much storage space themselves, let alone space that they could spare for
games. So I would guess that 99% of the time when FreeCiv would be run on these
systems, it would be run from a remote XHost. Using this logic, which I hope
you agree with, I think it would be saner to have the '-nocolor' be a command
line switch so that the XHost would not need to have two copies of the FreeCiv
client installed. I don't think this would really put a performance hit in the
client at all.
Chris

Peter Schaefer wrote:
> 
> >How about making the client work well on B&W systems? It would be great to
> play
> >FreeCiv on my old X-Terminals. Im pretty sure it would be possible to make
> it
> >work, as the Original Mac68k version of Civilization ran in B&W.  Here's
> hoping.
> >Chris
> >
> 
> Someone has sent a patch for this some time ago.
> I dont know what the right way to do this i.e. would the B&W client
> be a separate client ( neat, but work to maintain it .. ) or should it
> be a switch for one or both of the other clients .. ?
> Search the mailing list archives for it .. .
> If you really dont find it I could try to unpack my "best of freeciv-dev"
> files.