Tradewars 2002 Scripts for Telemate

Please visit my new Telemate Scripts for Tradewars site.


It appears that there are a lot of dead links that exist on the internet that link to my old web page that was created and hosted on my university's web server while I was doing my degree.  Since I graduated a while back, and I occasionally get emails from people requesting info on the scripts, I thought I should put together this page outlining what has occurred with the scripts.

There has only been one public release of the scripts, Version 1.00 which you can get below, however I've tinkered with the scripts over the years to work with the newer versions.I also have available the source code for the paired port script which has been cleaned up and commented and hopefully this will answer any questions concerning how the scripts work.

I haven't touched the scripts in a couple of years, and don't see the point of trying to update them further.  Telemate is an old DOS comm program that hasn't been updated in years.  TWAssist is an old DOS program that hasn't been updated in years and isn't totally compatible  with the new version and TW2002 itself (yes another DOS program) hasn't been updated in years but from what I can tell is still quite popular. 

Also the code really was spaghettied together so they don't follow any logical structure in certain places.  The scripts were modified originally to work and tested with the new (I guess it's old now) V3 door version.   I have tested the scripts and they still work on the new version which surprised the heck out of me since the code is almost 5 years old.   I would suggest trying out the Ether Probe script as I had added a whole slew of new options (marking avoids, resending probes, etc.) 

Original V1.00 Tradewars scripts for Telemate

Paired Port Script For Telemate

Beta Tradewars scripts for Telemate w/ source

The one problem with the scripts is the reliance on TWAssist which as stated previously is no longer compatible with the new versions of Tradewars.  You can get the original version from the authors site. 

I've thought about maybe trying to port some of the simpler scripts over to another scripting program, but I haven't really found another telnet/comm program that offered a similar scripting language to Telemate. I looked at ZOC and think it might be possible.  Anyhow after a bit more research, it seems that there already are ZOC scripts for tradewars that you can get from the following sites.  When I get some time, I'll try and delve into the details of the REXX programming language and see if the scripts can be modified accordingly.