Alter Aeon is one of the most blind friendly multiplayer games on the web. Nearly all of our players are blind or visually impaired, and our dedicated staff is constantly on the lookout for trouble spots.

We highly recommend the Windows MUSH-Z client, which adds sounds, reduces the amount of typing needed, and works with many different screen readers. This client is used by most of the blind and visually impaired players on Alter Aeon. Click here to get it.

If you already have a mud client that you're happy with, the Alter Aeon address is alteraeon.com port 3010.

The resources below include both downloads we host, as well as downloads and help from the large community of blind Alter Aeon players. Hopefully one of the clients listed below will work well with your computer and screen reader software. We hope to see you soon on Alter Aeon!

There are several different types of clients you can use to connect to Alter Aeon, but you may have to try more than one to find one that works well with your reader.

Some of our best support for the blind and visually impaired has come from our blind players. Here are links to some of our blind community sites, which host and maintain scripts and downloads.

• MUSH-Z - The player Zhiun has put together this excellent soundpack for Mushclient, including scripts and interface files for screen readers. This client is used by over half of the blind players on Alter Aeon.
  
  
• MonkeyTerm MTScripts - The player Mathayas has put together a set of scripts and sounds for MonkeyTerm, a commonly used client for blind players. This page includes downloads and custom scripting by blind players, for blind players.
  
  
• GMUD - This link has downloads and soundpacks for GMud, a compact client that works well with some readers.
  
  

The clients we recommend for sighted players do not yet have good support for screen readers. We are working to improve support, but for now you might want to try our versions of the basic screen-reader compatible clients:

• GMud (no soundpack)
  For this client to work well with your reader, you need to download and install scripts for it. You can download the GMud JAWS scripts from our server. We also have a special set of JAWS scripts used by the Alter Aeon builder Morpheus.
  
  
• MonkeyTerm (no soundpack)
  MonkeyTerm is a GNU GPL'ed client that a number of Alter Aeon players use. It has support for nearly any feature, and a number of blind players use it because it's easy to script and filter. You can also obtain it from our server. We host a local mirror of the Windows executable and the GPL'ed source code.
  
  

We are open for submissions of scripts and new clients. Please contact Dentin or Shadowfax in-game if you would like to add a client to this page.

Currently, the easiest option for playing the game on a Mac is to use the built in telnet program with VoiceOver. The simplest way to use telnet is to click on this link:

A more complicated, but much more powerful client for Apple Macs is Tintin. For help installing and using both Tintin and Telnet, please see our Apple Mac Visually Impaired Support page.

For Apple devices, there is the MUDRammer open source client app, available on GitHub here. Follow the instruction under the Getting Started heading to build and run.

For Android devices, we recommend the Fado Multi-User Dungeon Client app. Follow the instructions under the Accessibility heading in order to take advantage of this feature. It is available on the Play Store here.

For Ubuntu and other Linux systems, we recommend using either the default Linux Telnet client or the Tintin client from sourceforge. The reader Orca does a fair job of keeping up with messages for either client, and you should have no problems playing the game. For more information, please see our Ubuntu Linux Visually Impaired Support page.