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The biggest update yet for players who live at the command line. BATTLE, WITHOUT THE WALL OF TEXT Combat spam can collapse in place, every blow overwriting the last, or leave the log entirely for a battle panel that tracks your hits, misses, evasion rate and current target. The line you were reading stops getting buried. NAVIGATION COMPASS A compass rose floats over the terminal on iPhone, iPad and Mac, reading your live coordinates and showing named landmarks at their true bearing. Built from the official accessible map, with labels that step apart instead of piling into a smudge in a crowded town. SKILLS, SCORE AND SHOP LISTS AS PANELS "skills", "score" and a shop's "list" arrive as laid-out panels instead of raw columns. Score shows what has changed since you last looked, and every item on a shop list is one tap from being bought. TARGETS AS LINKS Creatures announced in a room render as tappable links: tap to attack, no typing. The Kill picker seeds itself from whatever is standing in front of you and lets you pin the targets you hunt often. Long-press to stop a word being highlighted. TAP-ABLE HINTS (iPhone & iPad) The desktop TAB-completion you already know, now on touch. Start typing and matching commands appear above the input; tap one to send it. Half-finished templates fill the field instead so you can complete them. RICHER COMMAND HISTORY Sixteen entries in a scrollable list, and re-running one moves it back to the top. Counterparts sit above the list: send "enter portal" and it offers "leave portal" and "out"; open a door and it offers to close it. TEXT LINK RULES Turn any line the game prints into a one-tap command. Select text in the output to seed a new rule, use capture groups to pull words out of the line, and chain several commands into one link. A SOUNDTRACK THAT KNOWS HOW YOU ARE DOING Area music picks up tempo as your health falls, and battle themes hold back until a fight is genuinely under way. QUALITY OF LIFE • Configuration panes open as docked panels on wide screens instead of covering the app • Escape closes any panel or editor • Messages appear at the top of the output and fade on their own • Optional extra line spacing, and text selection that works in the history view • Tapping the output clears a selection, and tapping a link puts the keyboard away
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A modern client for Ancient Anguish — the text-based multiplayer fantasy world that's been running continuously since 1991 — built for iPhone and iPad. If you've played AA before, welcome home. If you haven't: a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) is a text-driven online game where words do the work pictures do in most games. You read a room, decide what to do, and type a command. It's theatre of the mind, with thousands of other players writing the scenes with you. This client is a purpose-built front end for AA — a cockpit that knows how its prompt works, how its areas sound, and how its culture plays. WHAT'S INSIDE • A real terminal — Full telnet with automatic negotiation (NAWS, TTYPE, SGA, ECHO). GMCP- and MCCP-aware. ANSI 16/256/truecolor rendering with bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, inverse. 5,000-line scrollback with drag-to-select auto-copy and clickable URLs. Snaps to the bottom on every command you send. • Tap-to-send links — Data-driven text link rules turn matched MUD output into tappable shortcuts. "The dark door is closed." becomes a tap that sends "open dark door". Edit rules in Settings with a live preview. Display only: nothing fires until you tap. • Game-state HUD — 30+ configurable elements across vitals, combat (aim, attack, defend, wimpy), experience (lifetime and session XP-per-minute), character, wealth, world (game time, reboot countdown), and survival (hunger, thirst, drunk, poison, alignment, followers, and more). The client rebuilds your prompt and syncs it to the MUD. • Mobile-first input — Eight-direction D-Pad with a door action, customizable Quick Commands with an icon catalog, and a history chip that re-sends any of your last five commands plus smart counterparts (enter ↔ leave, open ↔ close). Star up to three aliases for one-tap mobile slots; long-press a slot to edit. • Triggers (Immersions) — Pattern-matched rules that highlight, gag, or play sounds on matching text. Display only — never auto-send. Respects Ancient Anguish's no-bots rule by design. • Aliases — Short keywords that expand into full commands with $0/$1/$2 variable substitution and ; chaining. Ships with sensible defaults. Recursion-safe. • Area-based ambient music — The client detects your location from coordinates or room descriptions and crossfades between tracks. Pick area tracks and battle themes from your native Apple Music library, or load your own files. • Chat, Tells, Party, and Notes — Floating, dockable, resizable social panels. Tabs or independent windows. Autocomplete for recipients. Optionally hidden from the main log so your adventure keeps its thread. • Themes & accessibility — RPG Dark (the default), Classic Dark, and High Contrast (built for low-vision players). Scalable fonts (8–32 pt), input-line wrap slider, and native VoiceOver support. PRIVACY No analytics. No tracking. No ads. No third-party SDKs. Credentials, aliases, triggers, and settings stay on your device. The only network traffic is your single connection to the MUD server — you control the host. NEW PLAYERS The MUD is free to play. Create a character, follow the newbie area, and type `newbie hello!` to say hi. The community is famously welcoming. This is an independent third-party client, developed in coordination with the AA team and promoted on the official Connect page at https://anguish.org/connect.php. The game has been continuously operated by its own team since 1991. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Optional Support tiers are auto-renewable monthly subscriptions (Small $1.99, Medium $3.99, Large $5.99 USD). Purely cosmetic — nothing is gated. Charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Auto-renews unless cancelled 24h before period end. Manage anytime in Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ancient-anguish.duckdns.org/privacy.html Adventure awaits. See you in the realms.
What's new · 6.43.0
The biggest update yet for players who live at the command line. BATTLE, WITHOUT THE WALL OF TEXT Combat spam can collapse in place, every blow overwriting the last, or leave the log entirely for a battle panel that tracks your hits, misses, evasion rate and current target. The line you were reading stops getting buried. NAVIGATION COMPASS A compass rose floats over the terminal on iPhone, iPad and Mac, reading your live coordinates and showing named landmarks at their true bearing. Built from the official accessible map, with labels that step apart instead of piling into a smudge in a crowded town. SKILLS, SCORE AND SHOP LISTS AS PANELS "skills", "score" and a shop's "list" arrive as laid-out panels instead of raw columns. Score shows what has changed since you last looked, and every item on a shop list is one tap from being bought. TARGETS AS LINKS Creatures announced in a room render as tappable links: tap to attack, no typing. The Kill picker seeds itself from whatever is standing in front of you and lets you pin the targets you hunt often. Long-press to stop a word being highlighted. TAP-ABLE HINTS (iPhone & iPad) The desktop TAB-completion you already know, now on touch. Start typing and matching commands appear above the input; tap one to send it. Half-finished templates fill the field instead so you can complete them. RICHER COMMAND HISTORY Sixteen entries in a scrollable list, and re-running one moves it back to the top. Counterparts sit above the list: send "enter portal" and it offers "leave portal" and "out"; open a door and it offers to close it. TEXT LINK RULES Turn any line the game prints into a one-tap command. Select text in the output to seed a new rule, use capture groups to pull words out of the line, and chain several commands into one link. A SOUNDTRACK THAT KNOWS HOW YOU ARE DOING Area music picks up tempo as your health falls, and battle themes hold back until a fight is genuinely under way. QUALITY OF LIFE • Configuration panes open as docked panels on wide screens instead of covering the app • Escape closes any panel or editor • Messages appear at the top of the output and fade on their own • Optional extra line spacing, and text selection that works in the history view • Tapping the output clears a selection, and tapping a link puts the keyboard away
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