A 42" plasma screen is 16:9. You will get less square area per inch of diagonal size with a 16:9 display.


42" plasma - 740 in^2 (20x37)

4x20" LCD - 768 in^2 (16*12*4)


The main thing, though, is that even if you get a high def panel (1366x768), and you split it into four regions, each region still only gets 341x192 pixels, which is hardly adequate.

Same problem with a projector. You'd be much better off with 4 separate screens, though a single plasma display certainly has some extra wow factor. Still, a projector is cheaper and a 100" screen is a lot of wow factor.

 

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I love it.


Would'nt a software resource being available, seem to make more sense?


I am talking about running a tradebot not ACM, I stated I do ACM, but I am looking for a way to UM TRADEBOT/S.


Omfg I think im going to just pull the plug on this idea, goto school and then when I learn to program, just school you all.


Or you developers could just give it a whack.


Heck I would pay bucko bucks for this.

Lil-Blub... I don't think you fully understand the technical ramifications of what you're asking.


1) you cannot rebuild the client to be just a text based AC client. There are only a few people I know of who are even capable of ATTEMPTING this, and none of them are going to do it.


2) You can build a plugin to help manage the tradebot through some /commands but it is not the same and you will NOT have "full control" over the bot


3) Your best bet is to use what was already suggested in this thread. VNC or other Remote Desktop software is your best bet to get the management you want.


If you build something better, great, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

If you want a mostly smooth vid of your screen from a remote location you could also install a vid capture card in your computer and run from the S-VID(if you have it on your card)OUT on your card to the S-VID IN on the capture card and restream that out you could potentially connect to the computer with VNC, and view the screen with a media player connected to the streaming vid of the game.


but im sure the latency on the vid would be killer (bad killer, not good )

 

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But your right, we probably couldn't do anything this complex...

You're a bit limited by the fact that your budget for this is $0...surely it cost them much more to put people on the moon

 

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Date Posted: 2:30pm Subject: RE: Possible to make a remote desktop for AC for mutiple clients?

We can land men on the moon, and bring them back alive. We have now "shot" a projectile from a satillite and successfully hit a comet moving at 66 thousand miles per hour and streamed the data back to earth from millions of miles away. We have sent spacecraft outside of our solar system and taken pictures of planets more than 2 billion miles from earth, landed a small craft on an asteroid, sent crafts to the moons of saturn and successfully landed in a hostile alien environment. We have REMOTE control rovers driving around on Mars...


But your right, we probably couldn't do anything this complex...


I literally dropped on the floor laughing.


That was good. Like I said, no one WANTS to do this.


That is the problem. I am sure if it was for UCM we could see it, they made a program named labs, which is "top secret" and it did something like this.

I'm not talking "we" as in the collective world.. I'm talking "we" as in the members of this board..


and I highly doubt any of "us" put anyone on the moon or launched anything from space.


I'm sure there are PLENTY of people in the world with the technical ability to do this... just not very many that play AC. Certainly not someone with little to no programming experience.


Your argument is flawed in that you somehow assumed that when I said it wouldn't be done that I was somehow talking about everyone in the human race. If you know anyone with the technical ability to write a fully functional MUD client for AC that isn't one of the people I already know who could do it (current decal devs) then by all means, let me know. It certainly isn't going to be you or lil-blub.

Remember Drak...not only must it be a textmode client for AC, but it also must fully emulate the Decal API. After all, the reason he wanted to do this was to run a tradebot.

 

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quite right you are.. I figured if they were able to create the text-based client, they'd be able to create their own API to run plugins with.


*shrug*