Rebot - Summary
This project is not part of the GNU Project.
Rebot is a bot to execute plain text applications by network.
Rebot is specially focused on text adventure games or interactive fiction, but can be used to execute any other general purpose application with text input and output.
Rebot is written in Perl.
Due to a modular design is possible implement almost any network/communication protocol you can imagine, currently comes with IRC, Jabber, MSN and transcript (input/output to plain text files) modules. Examples of new protocols can be implemented are other IM protocols, telnet/mud, ssh or even web interface.
Registration Date: Thu 08 Sep 2005 04:25:39 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta
posted by presi, Fri 07 Nov 2008 05:30:01 PM UTC - 0 replies
Finally, after some delays, a new major release of Rebot is ready, it includes all features you could find on GNU Arch repository:
- Jabber module
- MSN module by Sarganar
- Multiplayer module support
- Floyd/zx style multiplayer module
- DCC-CHAT functionality on IRC
- Transcript module
- A lot of bugfixes
- Some other minor improvements
posted by presi, Sun 25 Nov 2007 03:26:08 AM UTC - 0 replies
A lot of changes have arisen since the last release: new communication modules have been developed (jabber, msn and transcript) and there are some improvements for existing IRC module like dcc-chat support. In addition, a new multiplayer infrastructure has been developed.
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posted by presi, Thu 28 Sep 2006 10:57:35 PM UTC - 0 replies
A minor version that includes localization files for english and french (by Eric Forgeot) in addition to existing spanish. An irrelevant file included by mistake on the packages has been removed.
posted by presi, Sun 04 Dec 2005 03:18:03 AM UTC - 0 replies
This 0.9 beta release has all text messages in separated files making it easy to translate to other langages.
The application launcher has been improved, now it is (virtually) totally portable.
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